Ga Republican Gov Sonny Perdue - Have Bamboozled on Slavery Apology
Released on = March 20, 2007, 6:29 pm
Press Release Author = Nate Perkins Enterprises
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Press Release Summary = Gov. Sonny Perdue's \"Repentance comes from the heart,\" reminded us all of Lester Maddox, who became Democratic Governor of Georgia, sold the fast-food business he owned rather that serve blacks in his restaurant and Georgia Democratic Governor Marvin Griffin promised that as long as he held office, he would "maintain segregation in the Georgia's state schools; and the white races will not be mixed, come hell or high water".
Press Release Body = Ga. Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue: Have Bamboozled on Slavery Apology
ATLANTA, Ga. (Mar.20, 2007) (NPE) - ( R ) Gov. Sonny Perdue's \"Repentance comes from the heart,\" reminded us all of Lester Maddox, who became Democratic Governor of Georgia, sold the fast-food business he owned rather that serve blacks in his restaurant and Georgia Democratic Governor Marvin Griffin promised that as long as he held office, he would "maintain segregation in the Georgia's state schools; and the white races will not be mixed, come hell or high water".
Georgia\'s governor sounded skeptical Monday about issuing a public apology for slavery, an idea that got a boost last week with the support of a Republican leader.
The apology measure also has the backing of Republican state Senate President Pro Tem Eric Johnson, a Republican, said he had been "arguing privately for awhile with Lawmakers and Gov. Perdue's that Georgia ought to be at the lead and not forced into anything on the slavery issue."
\"Repentance comes from the heart,\" Gov. Sonny Perdue said Monday. \"I\'m not sure about public apologies on behalf of other people as far as the motivation for them.\"
"It's not that we personally, or our parents, participated in slavery, but the state of Georgia did," Gov. Sonny Perdue said.
\"I haven\'t run across anyone in Georgia who is not regretful and repentant of man\'s inhumanity when you talk about owning (slave) one another,\" the Republican governor said. The move comes as Georgia considers a measure that would officially designate April as Confederate History and Heritage Month.
On Monday, members of the Georgia arm of the NAACP were at the Capitol lobbying. Republican Party was formed in May 1854, to address the issue of slavery. Where as, the Republican Party took its name from its desire to return to the founding principles of the Republic, explaining in its first platform that "with our Republican fathers, we hold it to be a self-evident truth, that all men are endowed with the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that the primary object and ulterior design of our Georgia's Government were to secure these rights to all person".
Historic and moral commitment against racism, condemns and opposes all racist acts and groups, republicans freed the slaves from slavery and put our right to vote in the U.S. Constitution. Republicans started the NAACP, affirmative action and the Historically Black College Universities (HBCU's). Most recently supporting the 2005 renewal of the 1965 Voting Rights Act: and in order, to preserve our heritage of equality, religious freedom, and strong moral vales.
Immoral issue of racism, where as, republicans frequently led efforts to pass ruling against segregation, Jim Crow, Blacks Code and anti-lynching laws in Congress but those laws were consistently defeated by Democrats, with 3,445 African Americans being lynched in the period from 1882 to 1964 and Congress never having passed an anti-lynching law.
\"Those of us in public office today, I think we\'re called to live our lives and inspire our citizens to live their lives so that our children and grandchildren have nothing to apologize for,\" Perdue said.
A resolution acknowledging and apologizing for Georgia\'s role in the slave trade had been expected Monday but now could come later in the week. Republican Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, who presides over the state Senate, said he\'s working on the proposal. A resolution, as opposed to a bill, would not require Perdue\'s approval.
\"We\'re putting a strategy in place now to move forward with a resolution,\" Republican Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, said. \"We pass a lot of resolutions down here, and this is one that certainly has some merit.\"
Perdue said he would watch what lawmakers do, but he cast the issue as a personal one and said the state should look forward, not back.
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