Just wondering.
2007-11-04 06:35:03 · 11 answers · asked by Irfan B 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Hey guys, calm down. I'm not arguing that you should apologize, I'm just curious if they did or not. I need to know for school, that's all. Sheesh.
2007-11-04 06:42:20 · update #1
I doubt it very much, the Emancipation Proclamation is a close to an apology as politicians will get. Politicians don't actually issue apologies, they just mumble some sort of incoherent ramblings and pretend everything is alright. But honestly what good will an apology serve? The damage has been done and would be quite hollow if an apology were to be made.
2007-11-04 07:10:09 · answer #1 · answered by ikeman32 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what you consider to be "an official apology".
Who would be the "official" doing this? Congress? The President? The Supreme Court?
The people by a vote?
What form does the "apology" have to take? Can you consider the Emancipation Proclamation to be an apology? Or the decision in Brown v. Board of Education? Or the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The history of civil rights in America is long and complicated. A simple apology is both not enough and too much.
2007-11-04 06:50:40 · answer #2 · answered by raichasays 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, For each and every of the justifications listed by technique of the persons above..... Why might want to the persons of the U.S. be held answerable for an offense they were no longer alive to grant to those who're no longer alive to be offended? also, in all actuality, the U.S. already did something some distance more advantageous than words: the Civil conflict. What good do you imagine words are? They fade away once you talk them. the country you're talking off tore itself aside in a bloody, drawn out conflict over the problem of slavery. i'm totally responsive to the "state's rights" justification of the civil conflict. that's a lie and that i understand it as such. The "state's rights" changed into the right to ascertain if that state might want to carry slaves or no longer.... therefore scuffling with over slavery or the right to have slaves is an same aspect.... the better area is that the U.S. accomplished the civil conflict by technique of itself: thousands of years before everyone would have forced it to accomplish that. a lot of cultures had (and some nonetheless have) slaves. The U.S. changed into the in easy words position to do something about it and end it. This turned right into a conflict that tore households aside and many white adult adult males died so as that black ones would not be slaves, because they concept it changed into incorrect.
2016-10-23 09:37:25 · answer #3 · answered by farrior 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why should it? It was something that was legal 170 years ago. I haven't heard Massachusetts apologizing for the Witch Trials. I have not heard anything about the government apologizing for Anti-Semitism. In fact, in Florida it was illegal for a Jew to get a room in a hotel in Miami. So the Jews built Miami Beach Hotels and accepted everyone. Florida has never apologized. What about the native Americans? I could go on, but blacks are not only one who have had it bad. I did not own a slave. My family did not own a slave. My family emigrated to the US in the 1870's and 1880's, why should I apologize? You are beating a dead horse. Forget about it.
2007-11-04 06:46:58 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That would be like the indians telling you, that YOU need to apologize to them for what the government did to their ancestors.
Think about it.
Yeah, maybe the U.S. Government should apologize, but since all the slaves are dead and their owners too, who will they apologize to?
Also, how about the black African tribes who sold rival tribes into slavery?Have they apologized yet?
2007-11-04 06:46:54 · answer #5 · answered by Joe F 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As much as your original country has apologized for all the atrocities it committed in its history.
2007-11-04 06:41:45 · answer #6 · answered by pgb 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No because everyone who had owned slaves is dead. No one alive owned any so they have nothing to apologize for.
2007-11-04 06:39:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Why the F--- should we???????????
Those responsible for it are long head, those affected buy it are long dead,
What would change.?History happens and cannot be changed.
2007-11-04 06:40:26 · answer #8 · answered by Barry auh2o 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Have the slaves thanked the yankees for freeing them?
2007-11-04 06:40:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yea by giving those "affected" a job if they want it and welfare if they don't.
2007-11-04 06:45:48 · answer #10 · answered by CDFan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋