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Just In Case You Were Wondering….
… why Steve King (R-Iowa) was the only member of the House of Representatives to vote against a resolution recognizing the free labor provided by slaves in the building of the U.S. Capitol. In addition to the resolution itself, a plaque will be placed in the House Visitors Center stating that the Capitol was built in part by slave labor.
So why did Rep. King vote against the resolution?
We’ve gotten an explanation from Rep. Steve King (R-IA) for why he was the lone vote against acknowledging the role of slaves in building the U.S. Capitol. He did it to protest “a several year effort by liberals in Congress to scrub references to America’s Christian heritage from our nation’s Capitol”:
Our Judeo-Christian heritage is an essential foundation stone of our great nation and should not be held hostage to yet another effort to place guilt on future Americans for the sins of some of their ancestors.
So there you have it.
Leastways, that’s as good an explanation as you are going to get.
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7 Responses to “Just In Case You Were Wondering….”
Well I would have voted against it also because that plaque has absolutely no reference to gay, lesbians, bi-sexuals or transsexuals among those slave laborers!
There's no reason to whine about King, much less engage at all in any neurotic behavior about past slavery (now often accompanied by the “reparations” lunacy and lunatics).
PETA should demand that all of humanity apologize for the domestication (subjection; slavery) of animals, and then give them reparations, not merely extend all “human” and legal rights to all life forms.
PETA (with Peter Singer as a contributing “expert”) should go to the UN General Assembly (a befitting zoo — note) and demand that all humanity (or at least the USA and the West) apologize to animals for domestication (they should be referred to officially henceforth as “companions” as a gesture toward long-overdue equity), and to give them not only all legal and other “rights” enjoyed by humanity (or at least in the USA and the West), but should pay them some befitting measure of “reparations” (in lieu of inability to establish something more practical and effective, “symbolized” in the form of transport and electrical energy given by the evil USA and the West to lesser developed nations, especially those most critical politically of the evil USA and to a lesser extent the less-anti-PC rest of the West).
Before scoffing: that is the same nonsense we have been treated to by the Left (and by hypocritical nations outside the West, bashing the West and of course, Israel) on the issue of slavery, as well as in that _zoo_ called the United Nations General Assembly.
KATHY–
Snark aside, King is a right racist arse and you are right noble to point this fact out. Honestly there should be a intelligence requirement before people can be elected to office. How is a clown like King going to understand the complexities of national issues if he cannot understand the simplicity of admitting wrong.
DLS,
I don't have a clue what you are yammering on about. The House resolution I wrote about had nothing to do with apologies or reparations for slavery.
Me and my Louisville slugger could convince King to keep his mouth shut in 5 minutes, convince him that the devil does exist in 10 minutes and have him convert to moon worship in 15 minutes.
My record was a riot in a logger bar in Springfield OR when someone happened to use the word that King didn't have the guts to say. Pool cues make great persuaders when used correctly.