Who does this guy think he is?


I’m still a little confused how folks like this get to have any position of authority at all. From the Associated Press:

A state legislator said black people “should get over” slavery and questioned whether Jews should apologize “for killing Christ,” drawing denunciations Tuesday from stunned colleagues.

Delegate Frank D. Hargrove, who is white and Christian, made his remarks in opposition to a measure that would apologize on the state’s behalf to the descendants of slaves.

In an interview published Tuesday in The Daily Progress of Charlottesville, Hargrove, 79, said slavery ended nearly 140 years ago with the Civil War and added that “our black citizens should get over it.”

-St. Louis Today article

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  1. monts January 20, 2007 11:07 am
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    maybe someone should tell him to “get over the war” that he obviously fought in by wearing his little hat and see how he responds to that.

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