I'm not a racist, but I find it ridiculous that a governor in 2007 is apologizing for something that he had NOTHING to do with that happened way over 100 years ago. What the heck?? Everyone with a BRAIN knows slavery was and is wrong. Why apologize NOW?? It makes no sense at all.
2007-05-31 07:45:33 · 13 answers · asked by teacherhelper 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Because. It is the right thing to do.
Afterwards, we can apologize to the dodo bird for making it extinct, the Native Americans for taking their land. The buffalo for turning their praries into highways. While we're at it we might as well apologize for that asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs... I mean, we didn't cause the asteroid to hit Earth, but ya kno, let's throw that in there.
Oh, and let's apologize to the moon for all the times our Earth blocks the sun's rays from it!
2007-05-31 07:56:03 · answer #1 · answered by McCoy 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Alabama was and is a very charged state even and especially into the civil rights movement. Many of the killings and clan activity. We all know the name Selma, Alabama. It was said that if they could bring equality here then it would be easier to do so else where. So Alabama has a unique role in the racial history.
Apologize is a bit much but renounce or admonish the past is appropriate. It's still not really equal.
2007-05-31 14:52:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing wrong with apologizing, no matter how late for something that was an awful event in our past. Obviously it is something that hangs over our country to this date and the Governor feels that it is still something that must be faced head on. It's never too late to apologize for something that was so horrible. Slavery may be gone, but the great great grandchildren of the slaves still live down there and don't they deserve the apology.
2007-05-31 15:01:12 · answer #3 · answered by lochmessy 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina did this too.
Better apologize to the Native Americans too. And the British for dumping all of their perfectly good tea. And the Mexicans for the whole Texas thing. And .....
How many tax dollars do you think went into drafting up and formalizing these apologies? What a waste of time, effort, and money.
2007-05-31 14:53:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thank you, I thought you were going the other way with this.
You're right, it's stupid for someone of today to apologize for something that happened over 150 years ago. That's like me saying "thank you for your support for out bombing of Japan where I wasn't even alive at that time. It's completely stupid.
2007-05-31 15:16:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two quick answers before we all been labeled as racists.
(1) Because some people never grow out of it:
if you never grow out of it, you can always ask for free stuff.
(2) "Racist" is the most commonly mis-used label nowadays.
if you don't give me free stuff, you are a racists!
Do you see how it works now?
2007-05-31 14:50:08 · answer #6 · answered by DeadManWalking 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
As long as everybody's apologizing, maybe countries in africa will now apologize for their ancestors selling their own people to the spanish to be slaves .
2007-05-31 14:52:18 · answer #7 · answered by monkeypox 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'll have to do some investigating to find out why.
nothing to do with election, he was just reelected by a landslide.
2007-05-31 14:52:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good God. We have seriously GOT to get over slavery. It was awful, I'm not minimizing it, but it was A LONG TIME AGO. NO ONE who is still alive had ANYTHING to do with it - victim or perpetrator. Time for us all to look forward instead of backward.
2007-05-31 14:49:37 · answer #9 · answered by Bush Invented the Google 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
He is probably coming up for reelection and thinks by doing this he will get more of the black community votes.
2007-05-31 14:52:58 · answer #10 · answered by mnwomen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋