The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for slavery and the era of Jim Crow.

The nonbinding resolution, which passed on a voice vote, was introduced by Rep. Steve Cohen, a white lawmaker who represents a majority black district in Memphis, Tennessee.
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It is not the first time lawmakers have apologized to an ethnic group for injustices.

In April, the Senate passed a resolution sponsored by Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, that apologized to Native Americans for “the many instances of violence, maltreatment and neglect.”

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PelosingTheBattleButPewinningTheWar: legislation time !!
PelosingTheBattleButPewinningTheWar: finger on nose
CHARLES_RANGEL: FINGER ON NOSE
rep#steve#cohen#dtn: finger on nose
rep#steve#cohen#dtn has been censored by the chat administrator.
CHARLES_RANGEL: HELL YES
PelosingTheBattleButPewinningTheWar: steve u better have somethin good !!
rep#steve#cohen#dtn: you guys are the worst. lol
rep#steve#cohen#dtn: seriously, i got nothing
CHARLES_RANGEL: GIVE IT UP, FROSH
CHARLES_RANGEL: LEST I BRAND YOUR FOREHEAD WITH THIS GLOWING RED PIECE O’ METAL SHAPED LIKE A MANHOOD
CHARLES_RANGEL is brandishing a glowing red piece of metal.
rep#steve#cohen#dtn: ummm
PelosingTheBattleButPewinningTheWar: hurry ur @$$ up
rep#steve#cohen#dtn: ummm shoot. hang on
CHARLES_RANGEL: I SHALL ENJOY YOUR SOBS OF PAIN AND SHAME
rep#steve#cohen#dtn: no no, i got it
rep#steve#cohen#dtn: remember how sam brownback made the entire senate apologize to native americans?
CHARLES_RANGEL: YEAH
PelosingTheBattleButPewinningTheWar: yeah that was pretty bushleague
rep#steve#cohen#dtn: well i think we should apologize to black people
rep#steve#cohen#dtn: for, you know, slavery and stuff
rep#steve#cohen#dtn: the u.s. government has never formally apologized to black people
rep#steve#cohen#dtn: so, uh.. yeah
CHARLES_RANGEL: I AM GONNA BRAND YOU SO HARD
PelosingTheBattleButPewinningTheWar: eh
PelosingTheBattleButPewinningTheWar: chuck chill out hes a freshman
CHARLES_RANGEL: ARE YOU SERIOUS
CHARLES_RANGEL: SERIOUSLY, YOU WANT TO PASS A BILL THAT SAYS “SORRY BLACK PEOPLE FOR ENSLAVING YOU FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS”
CHARLES_RANGEL: “ENSURING A LEGACY OF INDESCRIBABLE ALIENATION AND RACE HATRED”
CHARLES_RANGEL: “OUR BAD”
rep#steve#cohen#dtn: yeah, that’s pretty much what i was thinking
CHARLES_RANGEL has left the conference chat.
CHARLES_RANGEL is driving to your house, muttering obscenities to himself.

PelosingTheBattleButPewinningTheWar: i guess he sort of has a point steve
rep#steve#cohen#dtn: you know, he does
rep#steve#cohen#dtn: let’s make it non-binding?
PelosingTheBattleButPewinningTheWar: thats what i was thinking yeah

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