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December 16, 2022

Biden Apologizes to Slave Sellers

America’s “original sin,” the president told African heads of state, was slavery. He didn’t mention who rounded up those slaves.

Slavery is an abomination that has existed for basically all of human history. It was not unique to America by any stretch of the imagination, though our nation is still dealing with the ramifications of the racial basis for it. That now includes Joe “Unity” Biden apologizing to African leaders for American slavery.

“We remember the stolen men and women and children were brought to our shores in chains,” Biden said in his White House summit with African leaders this week. “My nation’s original sin was that period.” He’s so sorry for the “unimaginable cruelty,” in fact, that he’s promising $55 billion in taxpayer money for the African continent’s fight against climate change. He also pledged to visit sub-Saharan Africa next year.

Clearly, Biden has been reading too much of the 1619 Project. Since Biden is logically begging the question, we’ll ask a few questions.

How can slavery be America’s “original sin” if we weren’t the first people to engage in it?

Does Biden’s apology cover only white Americans, or also the Indigenous People Democrats love to celebrate instead of Christopher Columbus?

Why didn’t Biden’s apology mention that his party bears a lot of blame for slavery? Why didn’t he thank Republicans for being the original party of abolition?

Who stole the African men and women and children who were sold to European slave traders? Oh, that’s right — the Africans to whom Biden is offering an apology. In fact, Africans made a great deal of money by attacking other African tribes, enslaving the conquered, and selling them to Europeans.

Closer to home for Biden, the ancestors of Kamala Harris were profiteering slave traders. Maybe Biden should apologize for choosing her as his vice president.

Not long ago, CNN’s Don Lemon tried to push for reparations, and British royal commentator Hilary Fordwich smacked him down: “Where was the beginning of the [slave] supply chain? That was in Africa,” she said. “Which was the first nation in the world that abolished slavery? … The British. If reparations need to be paid, we need to go right back to the beginning of that supply chain and say, ‘Who was rounding up their own people and having them handcuffed in cages?’”

Reparations and apologies alike run into this fundamental problem.

Biden isn’t the first president to trod this ground. In 2013, Barack Obama began a trip to Africa with a stop at a slave port. Given his personal African roots, we don’t take issue with the fact of the trip. We have a problem with the way he and other Democrats constantly run down America as uniquely awful for its history of slavery and racism. Indeed, Obama used that trip to play up his racial connection with slaves rather than enslavers.

Such pandering for votes is why Democrats donned African Kente cloth while they kneeled in protest of George Floyd’s death. Unfortunately for them, it was the garb of the Ashanti tribe — a tribe that was known for owning and trading slaves. Even the Leftmedia “fact-checkers” confirmed that insensitive faux pas. Oops!

That brings us to the continuing modern-day African slave trade. Not only did Biden nonsensically apologize to the descendants of slave traders, he groveled before a continent that still enslaves more than nine million people.

American history is full of regrettable and awful things, slavery prominent among them. For the last half century at least, however, we can add the more than 60 million lives snuffed out in the womb, and that’s something Biden and his party continue to zealously advocate. That they have the anti-American nerve to run around still apologizing for something Americans ended 157 years ago — and to do so to countries where that thing is still happening today — is disgraceful.

Is it too much to ask that we have a president who actually loves America?

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