~^ beancounter ~^ wrote: DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- Colorado Gov. Bill Owens apologized for saying "the natives are getting restless" during a conference on tribal gambling. Owens made the remark at the Western Governors' Association Summit after a participant's microphone wouldn't work and he urged it be fixed quickly. Some attendees told the Rocky Mountain News the audience fell silent, then groaned and chuckled. "It was an inadvertent comment that the governor regrets," Owens' spokesman Dan Hopkins said Thursday. "He apologizes to anyone who was offended." Sheila Morago of the Arizona Indian Gaming Association said Owens laughed when he said it and so did the people with her. "I don't think he meant it in any derogatory way at all," she said. Richard Milanovich of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in Palm Springs, California, said he "couldn't imagine" any person of stature making that kind of remark. Owens "went out of his way to call this conference, and then more or less made fun of the people who were there," Milanovich said.

chainsaw wrote: "- Prof. Jonez©" wrote:


Texas Constitution
ARTICLE VIII.

Slaves.

SEC. 1. The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of
slaves
without the consent of their owners, nor without paying their owners, previous
to such
emancipation, a full equivalent in money for the slaves so emancipated. They
shall have
no power to prevent emigrants to this State from bringing with them such persons
as are
deemed slaves by the laws of any of the United States, so long as any person of
the same
age or description shall be continued in slavery by the laws of this State:
Provided, That
such slave be the bona fide property of such emigrants: Provided, also, That
laws shall be
passed to inhibit the introduction into this State of slaves who have committed
high crimes
in other States or Territories. They shall have the right to pass laws to permit
the owners of
slaves to emancipate them, saving the rights of creditors, and preventing them
from becoming a public charge. They shall have full power to pass laws which
will oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity; to provide for
their necessary food and clothing; to abstain from all injuries to them,
extending to life or limb; and, in case of their neglect or refusal to comply
with the directions of such laws, to have such slave or slaves taken from such
owner and sold for the benefit of such owner or owners. They may pass laws to
prevent slaves from being brought into this State as merchandise only.

"- Prof. Jonez©" wrote:
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