What do you think about Virginia passing a resolution to apologize for slavery?!?

Question

I think it is good to apologize before any hard feelings develop...

I heard Regis and Cher used to own some slaves...

Answer 1

sure..may be we can pass a resolution to go back in time and fix everything from happening in the first place..

what a waste of tax payer money and time!

Answer 2

Before hard feelings develop, lol!!
I think it was a pointless waste of time. There are more important things to worry about than something that has been over and done with for 200 yrs. I didn't own slaves, you didn't own slave, nobody living was ever a slave. People automatically forget, blacks weren't the only slaves and they were freed long before the indians. What about them? Do they get an apology, or just a life on a reservation?
My Great Grandfather was BORN into slavery in 1905, do I get an apology? But he was only a Cherokee, I guess he doesn't rank up there with the black slaves. I am a decendant of 4 bloodlines of slaves, does that mean I get 4 apologies? 3 of those lines are WHITE.
Of course not! Because its Stupid! I don't hold a grudge, my grandfather didn't hold a grudge. Anybody who holds a grudge for something that doesn't affect them is just some Co-dependant pathetic person who doesn't want to get off their high horse.

Answer 3

Listen the world is still full of slaves! Virginia the soul home of Robert E. Lee has no reason to do so , unless of course the whole world apologises for evrything we in this age and way of thinking ,think was wrong! but at that period of time it was customary , it was not only Virginia as a matter of fact , Lincoln had slaves he was a hypocrite! We can not put ourselves into the thinking s of that period of time or any period past , we just cannot do it! In a not too distant future those people might consider our time barbaric! electric chairs to kill human beings! just as we think barbaric of the hangings back then, so althouht it was a sad period of time if we go back to two thousand yrs ago Jesus would be crusified again ! Why ? Is the thinking of that period, I say let it go move forward I find nothing wrong with an apology , but what good will it do ? The real apology and compensation should be to the Native Americans whose land and resourses have been taken and themselves have been decimated! Truth is hard to swallow! saludos .

Answer 4

Granted this is a nice gesture, but that's all it is.....a Gesture. Resolutions like this will only serve to stir up the past, making people even more bitter and discontent. Instead of wasting time on this resolution, why don't the politicians try to understand the problems we have with our society TODAY. Why don't they try to makes earnest attempts to solve the problems of gangs and drug use amongst our youth? Why don't they try to come up with solutions for unemployment? Because they are caught up in their own little world where they think a resolution will fix the little peoples broken hearts. Politicians apologizing for slavery ..... ITS OVER. Apologize for wasting tax payers time and money. Fix the problems we can fix this day and start doing their job right.

Answer 5

You think it's good before any hard feelings develop? (can't stop laughing here) It's been over 150 years!!!! Nobody who was a slave is alive to have hard feelings! Half of black America can't even remember or appreciate the civil rights movement of the 1960s, much less the states who allowed slavery 150 years ago! The BOTTOM LINE is that nobody alive today owes ANYBODY an apology for what their great great great great grandparents did 150 years ago! Much less a state!

Answer 6

It's about time! I think they should go farther than apologize! Legalized Rape! That is a great legacy!

Why is it that almost all of those who try and rationalize it say we should learn, but are the first to play the reverse discrimination card as a way to get out of quota's for minorities! Seems they don't mind that there is a unspoken quota for the rich at almost every college and University, especially the Ivy's and places like Duke!

Where else can a 1.8 GPA grad of Yale get into Harvard Business! Nobody but the rich! Right George?

Answer 7

Clearly it's an appropriate gesture. Just because there are no living slaves, their descendants have been effected by discrimination.

Don't believe me? Then tell it to George W. Bush, who said in his post Katrina speech in Jackson Square: "As all of us saw on television, there is also some deep, persistent poverty in this region as well. And that poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America."

(Here comes the thumbs down parade).

Answer 8

Do you think that hard feelings haven't developed over slavery? I beg to differ. The problem here is nobody who had anything to do with this is still alive. Are the Romans going to apologize for crucifying Jesus? Where does it stop?

Answer 9

Why should people apologize for the things that their ancestors did??? It's ludacris. Slavery was abolished a long time ago. It wasn't right to own slaves, but we had nothing to do with it.

Answer 10

Sure . We apologize for Japanese WWII internment no problem. Whats the problem with apologizing? Although by formally admitting a transgression , they are opening the government and perhaps businesses that profited from slavery to lawsuits .Thats why they hesitate . Its always about money. The debate shouldnt be about race anymore .