Chris Matthews Asks Why Pennsylvania Should Apologize for Slavery
By Heather Saturday Jun 20, 2009 6:00pm
Chris Matthews goes off the rails with Rep. Steve Cohen over the Senate adopting a resolution apologizing for slavery.
Matthews: You're from what state? Tennessee. You're from a Southern state that was part of fighting the Civil War from the other side. What about people from Pennsylvania whose ancestors went down and fought, and fought the Civil War and got killed? We lost 600,000 men in that fight in the Civil War who died at point blank range. These guys were killed fighting the evils of slavery, and now you want them to apologize. It makes no sense to me.
Why should the whole country apologize for what a good half or more of the country got killed opposing, sir.?
Cohen: Well, first of all....
Matthews: I mean you're from Tennessee. Maybe you should apoligize first before you ask the rest of the country to. Why should Pennsylvania apologize for something it fought and died... you're laughing! It's not funny! Why should anybody apologize for your sins!
Cohen proceeds to attempt to give Chris Matthews a little history lesson and explain to him that the sins of slavery in the United States were not limited only to the south.
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Up here in NH, the natives think they have never had a thing to do with slavery --- that is until you point out the economic system that was built on the cotton trade here.
I think Chris has an excellent point. I refuse to apologize for other people's screw-ups.
Let the bloody South apologize for slavery.
I thought slavery was everywhere until each northern state outlawed it. Something like that. I remember hearing that some people in the north did own slaves up to a certain point in history. Then it became a national scandal that the south insisted on keeping their slaves as slaves.
To all those who think slavery was a "Southern thing," think again.
In fact, historians say the capital of American slavery for more than two hundred years was New York. In colonial times, one of out five people in the city was a slave.
In 1703, 42 percent of New York's households had slaves, much more than Philadelphia and Boston combined. Among the colonies' cities, only Charleston, South Carolina, had more.
http://www.slavenorth.com/pennsylvania.htm
You quivering mass of jello ..everyone knows your story just doesn't make sense.
I, for one, am tired of stupid people with zero logic and zero facts.
Maybe you all should take a trip to Springfield, IL. Learn about Lincoln, the Civil War and slavery. Chris Matthews says all of those folks died for slavery...absolutely wrong, in fact, a lot of northern soldiers were pissed that the issue slavery was even playing a role in the war. They were fighting to PRESERVE THE UNION. We were one union, we are still one union and we should apologize as such.
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