Virginia Apologizes!
Virginia's apology will hopefully start a trend that I hope will one
day lead to reparation. Check out the article below and feel free
to comment.
RICHMOND, VA. — The House of Delegates unanimously approved a resolution Friday expressing "profound regret" for Virginia's role in the slave trade, a significant act of contrition by a body that used to start its day with a salute to the state's Confederate heritage.The resolution, one of several being considered as part of the yearlong celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, marks the furthest any state has gone in publicly offering remorse for the enslavement of millions of Africans and Caribbean Islanders during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
The resolution also condemns the "egregious wrongs" that European settlers inflicted on Native Americans."The General Assembly hereby expresses its profound regret for the commonwealth's role in sanctioning the immoral institution of human slavery, in the historic wrongs visited upon native peoples, and in all other forms of discrimination and injustice that have been rooted in racial and cultural bias and misunderstanding," the resolution states.
The resolution was sponsored by Democratic Delegate A. Donald McEachin, whose great-grandfather was born a slave. Although he initially wanted an outright apology, McEachin said the final version of the House resolution "doesn't sugarcoat the matter either."McEachin said it marked an important step in the state's effort to move beyond its history of stormy race relations, which included government sanctioned resistance to integration during the 1950s."There is some pain at first, but there is a beautiful product at the end," McEachin said of his colleagues' decision to embrace the resolution. "Virginia had nothing to do with the end of slavery. It had everything do with the beginning of slavery."
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Reparations? Not ever. The slaves are dead. The slave owners are dead. America is populated by more persons of NON slave owners than people whom owned slaves. To make people pay for that which they did not do is ludicrous and to expect it is lazy free riding thought. Much like welfare and free lunch. It is also UN -American. African American? what is that anyway? It is easier to just say BLACK. I like black people. I don't care for the newer version african American it smacks of ass dragging attitude counter productive weight dragging rhetoric. In fact it makes me sick.Frankly the cause is lost to bigger and more important things for ALL people on this planet. It is time to stop whining, stand up and just be people, throw away the crutch and be AMERICAN.
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