The National Black Republican Association has issued a petition to President-elect Barack Obama, requesting that he issue a formal apology for “the Democratic Party’s 150-year history of racism.”

Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia and former Vice President Al Gore are among many Democrats cited by the Florida-based group.

“We recognize that this is likely too much to ask of the oh, so ‘racially sensitive’ Democrats who want us to ignore their racist past and failed socialism that have caused so much harm to black Americans,” the group said.

The petition itself proclaims:

“The Democratic Party’s use of deception and fear to intimidate black Americans into voting for Democrats is consistent with the Democratic Party’s heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery — a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party; and the Democratic Party’s racist legacy bode ill until this generation of black Americans.”

“Now, therefore, for the documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon black Americans, we submit this petition to the head of the Democratic Party, Barack Hussein Obama, for a formal proclamation of apology for the Democratic Party’s 150-year history of racism.”

Now they can go back to being closet racists.