Why do some persons, God bless them, think America owes them an apology for slavery?

Question

"Skip": You are correct!!! The slave trade started with these tribes selling their neighbors and relatives to the Arabs and Europeans. The apology should start in Africa, if there was an apology to be given.

Texas Rose: So very accurate.

Also slavery is a part of humanity. We have had that horrible insitution due to greed.

What about the Sudanese who are suffering from modern day slavery and genocide? Children who are being sold into "white" slavery as prostittues need voices.

Those segments of black society need to see the truth and get their heads out of the clouds and deal with current event concerns, not all African-Americans we understand but some.

Answer 1

I don't see anybody apologizing to the Native- Americans. No one alive today was a slave and I've never nor has my family ever owned one. It's sad that it happened but I don't feel we owe anyone anything. I hear the slavery thing took place for 400 years but we have only been a nation for a little over 200 years.

Answer 2

It's called Mind Set. Some blacks have chosen to follow bad leaders. These leaders really don't give a rat's behind about these people. They want to keep these people 'down' and 'dumb.' I wish blacks would listen more to Bill Cosby and Larry Elder( talk show host and lawyer in L.A.).People like Farrakhan are doing nothing to uplift the black population. I have listened to that man...and I get angry. And Quannel X? He only takes up for the criminals, especially when it is black on white crime. Why doesn't he go after the black on black criminals?
My family from way back were so poor they couldn't afford slaves...and knowing what I do about them, they wouldn't have had any if they could afford it. So why are we all expected to pay and apologize??? Why aren't they demanding apologies from the Africans that sold them into slavery in the first place? And why do they keep calling themselves African-Americans? Shouldn't they be ashamed of that place? It was that country that did them wrong in the first place. At least it was white people that freed them!! They should be thanking us!!

Answer 3

We need to finally close that dark chapter in our history forever. The slaves were freed and no current generation living today ever knew slavery as a way of life. To continue to dwell on the mistakes of the past is destructive. People need to accept the fact that it did occur, that most people today are appalled by the very idea of it and that no one living now is entitled to an apology or recompense because they did not personally experience it.

Answer 4

If modern-day America has to apologize, shouldn't the descendants of the warring tribes who captured the people and handed them over to slave traders also stand up and apologize? That would be interesting.

Answer 5

It is only an excuse for racist to hold something over the mans head. Those kinds of people already have their hands out. A rational person says this is the hand i was dealt what can i make of myself from this. You can be anything you want in America. Even if you want to be lazy and poor all your life. Just don't blame it on something that happened 150 years ago.

Answer 6

Good question!

I really think that those who honestly think that they are owed an apology is looking for some kind of a handout or publicity.

I won't appologize for something I didn't do. All I will do is recognize the gross injustice and be thankful that we (well most of us) have evolved enough as humans to abolish it.

Answer 7

Slavery is a human rights violation and it was the reason for its abolition in the United States.

Answer 8

When we know better we do better and it goes to the simple saying of " It is not where you are from It is where you are going?"