Some people evidently have demanded that the state of Georgia issue an apology for slavery. Why? It isn't the case that any law makers today took part in keeping slaves, obviously, so why exactly do people think that an apology will make any difference? I just find this absolutely ridiculous and a waste of time when legislators could be addressing more serious issues than slavery, considering it hasn't existed in our lifetimes.
2007-03-29 05:45:06 · 13 answers · asked by Danielle S 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Since no former slaves are even alive today, the issue should be dead and buried. This issue is periodically brought up by greedy, whiny, entitlement-demanding, reparations-seeking indolent, shiftless people who think they should benefit off the hard work their ancestors performed that THEY are too lazy to do.
If Georgia apologizes for slavery, then countries like Ghana and the Ivory Coast have to apologize as well, because it was most often the citizens of these areas that rounded up the slaves in the first place and sold them to the west.
In Georgia apologizes for slavery, than Libya has to apologize for their sailors abducting white people to be sold as slaves back in the 1800s.
An apology is meaningless if it is not given by the perpetrator of a wrong. If your great grandfather burnt down my barn in a drunken fog, having his teenage great grandson issue an apology seems pretty ridiculous, doesn't it?
2007-03-29 05:59:18 · answer #1 · answered by pachl@sbcglobal.net 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
A formal apology should have been made, but 150 years ago when it was first abolished. Why should we apologize for something a person did years ago?
Doing it now won't accomplish anything. It won't stop the whites and blacks from having racial conflicts between each other. I think it's just one of those things that keeps the sh*t stirred. This is just adding more fuel to the fire, to those that think they are owed something because their great-great-great-great-great-grandmother was a slave.
IF a former slave was still alive today, yes they deserve a formal apology, but no one is.
People need to get over this issue and move on with their life.
Besides, the blacks were not the only ones sold as slaves.
Why are the whites the only ones that get blamed for the slave trade? What about the Dutch, British, Mexicans and Spanish? They also caught and sold slaves.
2007-03-29 05:57:17 · answer #2 · answered by cajun24 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Who should apologize and to whom? Slavery has been abolished for more than 150 years in this country, which means nobody alive today owned slaves or was a slave.
For those people who are advocating for such an apology, I would suggest that they make better use of their time by fighting slavery that still exists today. Of course, it goes by the name of human trafficking, but the practice is still alive and well throughout parts of Africa and Asia. To a lesser extent, it even happens in the Americas, even though it is illegal.
Yet I doubt such people will take up such a noble cause, as it requires effort and isn't something that one can easily gripe about while keeping their butt firmly lodged in the couch.
2007-03-29 05:55:28 · answer #3 · answered by Wee Bit Naughty 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I completely agree with you! What a waste of taxpayer money and time. Only the people who owned slaves should apologize for owning slaves. It was an era when owning slaves was common. I do not agree with this but that's the way it was. So if any former slave owners are still alive they should apologize, not he present day residents of Georgia or any other state. So if the people that are proposing this can find any living former slave owners ask them!
2007-03-29 05:54:31 · answer #4 · answered by Contented 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Being a pupil of both geography and heritage, i could say no for both the State of Georgia and the former Soviet Republic of Georgia! i believe that everybody/era is held to blame for his/its personal blunders, no longer the blunders of a few generations interior the dim previous. The previous does impression the present and the present will impression the destiny. in case you seem at heritage, each race has been enslaved at some time or yet another. I ask my black American acquaintances, only who were going into the African villages and capturing all those African villagers and promoting them to the slave investors. i imagine that heritage will teach that it became the Africans capturing and promoting their fellow Africans to the slave investors. If i'm incorrect, please ideal proper me. i'm no longer protecting the moves of the previous. The previous is over. All races opt for to be allowed to be proud of their personal heritage and celebrate it of their personal way without worry of being "politically incorrect." it really is u . s ., a land of immigrants. each and each different strand makes us that a lot superior as a rustic. we opt for to positioned our hurts in the back of us. definite, prejudices die not ordinary. they're nonetheless with us; that is the position practise is presented in. in case you attitude each thing with an open concepts, it receives extra obtainable to work out the forged in others, no count number number what they could be asserting.
2016-12-02 23:35:55 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The state should issue an official State Apology yes, and perhaps set up a monument and create a trust for ancestors of slaves. There is nothing wrong with that. This is distinct from abolishing or revising history to make the South 'worse' than they were. And the People of the State of Georgia are not culpable for the wrongs done in the past.
2007-03-29 05:50:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 6⤋
absoutely not, why should we apologize for a way of life that occured that long ago? As a Georgian, I find it crazy that the way of life that was practiced then is considered "primitive" and no apology is warranted.
2007-03-29 19:25:02 · answer #7 · answered by sapphire_lotus2007 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An apology is the first step towards reparations.
Who exactly is Georgia going to apologize TO?
2007-03-29 05:54:30 · answer #8 · answered by Ricky T 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Sure, you take them all of those slaves and I'll bet you they will apologize for their African brothers selling them into slavery.
2007-03-29 07:37:07 · answer #9 · answered by Kevin A 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree completely. There will always be those who think that the world owes them something.
Even if one of us did own a slave, we still wouldn't "owe" that person an apology.
Get over it already. Leave the past in the past. Move on.
2007-03-29 05:52:01 · answer #10 · answered by Barry 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋