Should the United States government apologize for slavery?

Answer 1

No, that was a century and a half ago. Nobody alive in the US today owned slaves. That's just plain stupid. Besides, black tribal chiefs sold their own people into slavery in the first place. If anybody should apologize, start on the "dark continent"!

Answer 2

No. i'm specific definitely everyone (different than possibly white supremacists) realizes that the corporation replace into considered one of - if no longer THE - worst element in American history. besides the undeniable fact that, I certainly have by no potential - repeat by no potential - met a slave or a slave proprietor. Now, greater advantageous than one hundred forty years after the abolition of slavery interior the U. S., we are - regardless of how our ancestors reached those seashores - human beings. Apologizing for something that got here approximately so some time past and that throughout contact people who're long long previous from the face of this planet seems ludicrous to me. If the government of this super usa had to say sorry for each incorrect and evil that has got here approximately provided that way earlier we've been even a colony, we've no threat for progression. I certainly would not be disappointed if an "actual apology" have been presented up, yet greater efficient we difficulty approximately appropriate now and permit's initiate changing issues for the following day.

Answer 3

People are continuously apologising to the Jews for the holocaust. The Pope did before he died. There were along with the Jews many black people who were killed as well and no one has bothered to apologise to them.

To date, there are national museums in place to show the concentration camps and persons can even meet others who have survived it. There is nothing so extensively done to commemorate slavery or to show exactly what the slaves really went through. It seems that slavery has been downplayed compared to the slaughter of the jews.

There are Germans who are still standing trials/or would be called upon to stand trial for the crimes committed against the Jews. However, what has been done to prosecute the people who have killed many slaves coming over the Middle passage, the rape of the women, the dehumanizing of a race and the emasculation of the men...to date the black people still suffer from the break down in the family, which if you were to study the African people, was a very important way of life. Further, they still also suffer from racism in certain parts of the world, the only thing that has changed is that people have learned to hide their hate of other race/colour a lot better.

Iran denies that the holocaust ever occured and this of course has put the Jews in an uproar. I do not blame them. Many people by their attitudes try to deny that racism against the blacks still exists and by no formal apologies fo rslavery, it is almost a slap in the face. It's as if people are in their own subliminal way trying to say that slavery did not exist.

The civil war is not enough. WWII was not enough for the Jews and I do not think that anyone should tell the black race that the war between the two states is sufficient. I think we as black people are just as worthy of a formal apology as any other race for the wrongs that we have suffered and the insults that we still face even today.

Answer 4

Yes to all poor white and non white. People have forgotten the abuse of the chinese by most of the white people. Texas SUCKS because even mexicans did not faintly attempt to help the ***** slaves,BUT justice for the TEX-MEX came and its effects are still there. What do I mean? Mexicans residing in Texas after the US-Mexican War became 2nd class citizens and there is verifiable proof that Texas Rangers used to kill Tex-Mex people indiscriminately. Tex-Mex are still 2nd class citizens while Africa-Americans are rising above the selfish Tex-Mex. Why am I doing this? The Tex-Mex are hypocrites as the whites and always claim that they are the kindest of the US Citizens. My reply: BALDERDASH, they are like any human being, good and bad so it is left to their opinion. Texas think they are special since their flag flies the same level as of the US does. Whites and Tex-Mex will go down hill and the African-Americans along with the Native Americans will be rewarded for the injustice that came when they were invaded by parasites with the Negroes as their slaves.

Answer 5

Absolutely.

I mean, why not? The US Government should be sorry.

I'm not, as my family wasn't even in America at the time, but the US Government should be sorry for something they allowed to continue for generations.

Does that mean the Senators, the Congressmen, the President should be sorry? Depends, did any of their families own slaves?

For those who didn't, they don't need to feel sorry, personally.

The Government isn't about the civil servants, though, it's an establishment of the people. If we are to take responsibility for the great things our nation has accomplished, we should apologize for the heinous crimes we have committed.

Plus, again, why not?

Answer 6

First off, an apology is not restitution. Your question seems to be referring to restitution more. There have been many governments that have apologized for ancestral governmental mistakes...

I'm ok with an apology just as Germany has apologized to the Jewish ppl and their families...

As for restitution, that is complicated.

I see both sides...

One side is saying:
Why should we have to sacrifice for things we did not participate in...our ancestors did... sure some white families made gains on the backs of slaves but not all citizens today have ancestors that participated in slavery, etc..

The African American community is saying:
Our ancestors helped build this country and aided in the advancement of the white race overall... while we were oppressed... couldn't even go to school... that stuff like that trickles down through the generations... therefore they should be compensated.

So you see, I do understand both side. The resolution should be more like the Jewish one related to corporations in Germany that profited off of Jewish genocide. Several German corporations have had to give monies to the Jewish ppl; BUT, they gave monies directly to survivors of the Holocaust not their children, etc... meaning you had to have lived during that era.

There is a dilemma when there is no living slaves at this pt...

The problem is 'how do you know whom to target exactly?' You can't make all of society pay the price for an act that not all ppl participated in.

Answer 7

Slavery is a dead issue. Governments (both Federal and Local) have made apologies. No one living today has suffered. Black History's story is being told in schools. Black History even has it's own month. It's time to move on.

Answer 8

Why would anyone that wasn't even born at the time have to apologize to people who weren't even born or effected by it? And another thing it was the Italians that captured them and sold them ask them for an apology! And at one time every race and color was a slave why is it certain races can't get over it and stop crying!

Answer 9

The US government did not invent slavery. It took the bloodiest war in our history to stop it. The apology has all ready been made.

Answer 10

No. The government didn't own slaves, it didn't actively encourage slavery, it allowed it for a while but did not actually encourage it. A simple statement condemning slavery would do, don't you think?