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Who should appologize for slavery?

Who should apologize for slavery?

  • The US government should apologize for slavery.

    Votes: 4 10.3%

  • The people should apologize for slavery

    Votes: 1 2.6%

  • Since elected officials represent us they should apologize in our name.

    Votes: 1 2.6%

  • The people in Africa whose ancestors captured and sold people into slavery.

    Votes: 2 5.1%

  • The governments of various countries in Africa were the slave trade once occurred.

    Votes: 2 5.1%

  • Government officials in Africa apologizing in the name of their constituents.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • No one should apologize for slavery.

    Votes: 34 87.2%
  • Total voters
    39
I think Bill Wennington should do the apologizing.

Black people respect a honkey with three rings. Plus he's Canadian so it doesn't look like we're admitting any wrongdoing.
 
Tucker Case said:
I think Bill Wennington should do the apologizing.

Black people respect a honkey with three rings. Plus he's Canadian so it doesn't look like we're admitting any wrongdoing.
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Bah, he's got nothing on the Australian terror Luc Longley. I think they should be the non-american spokes person for it
 
Zyphlin said:
Bah, he's got nothing on the Australian terror Luc Longley. I think they should be the non-american spokes person for it
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The Australians won't let him do it.

Maybe Tony Kukoc? It's not like Croatia's a real country anyway.
 
Nobody should apologize for it, there's nobody to apologize to, anyone who was ever a slave is long since dead and most certainly nobody who is alive today deserves any sort of reparations for it.

We need to acknowledge that it was wrong, but it's been over for more than 150 years and it's time to move on and get over it.
 
If it were a really big deal for anybody we could just apologize quickly and be over with it.
 
Lets just cut to the chase tuck

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On behalf of the 1996 Chicago Bulls, we apologize for Slavery.

(seriously, the announcer guy from the 90's Bulls team should do the apology dubbed over the intro music. I can see it now "At Guard, from North CAROLINA, Michaaaael JORDAN....apologizes for Slavery")
 
Zyphlin said:
Lets just cut to the chase tuck

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On behalf of the 1996 Chicago Bulls, we apologize for Slavery.

(seriously, the announcer guy from the 90's Bulls team should do the apology dubbed over the intro music. I can see it now "At Guard, from North CAROLINA, Michaaaael JORDAN....apologizes for Slavery")
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Well he did pretty much OWN everyone on the court.
 
If you owned a slave, and if you have true remorse for doing so, you should then apologize to any of those slaves that you can find.

Else, any such apology is is meaningless.
 
I think an appropriate apology for slavery would be worded like this:

Gee, I'm really sorry that the parents of your ancestors valued little glass beads more than their own children. But aren't you glad you're here instead of there? If you're not glad, when are you leaving?
 
Scarecrow Akhbar said:
I think an appropriate apology for slavery would be worded like this:

Gee, I'm really sorry that the parents of your ancestors valued little glass beads more than their own children. But aren't you glad you're here instead of there? If you're not glad, when are you leaving?
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I think the government does owe anyone who had ancestor slaves at least the courtesy of safe passage back to Africa if they so choose. And because I am a humanitarian at heart, I think we should also offer a condom to protect them from AIDS, a sign for the women that lets the men who have AIDS there know she isn't a virgin so not a cure for their AIDS if they rape her, a canteen full of fresh drinking water because it might be the last they get, a week's rations to get them started because their Visa cards won't be accepted at the market, and a can of Raid for when the flys start swarming around them and their children. Perhaps even a submachine gun for when the warlords come raiding the village.

Otherwise, they can stay here and appreciate the fact that they were spared all that.
 
jallman said:
I think the government does owe anyone who had ancestor slaves at least the courtesy of safe passage back to Africa if they so choose.
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Why, did the government exist in the 1600 and 1700's when the majority of them were imported? More importantly, did the government ever run a slave transport company?

jallman said:
And because I am a humanitarian at heart, I think we should also offer a condom to protect them from AIDS,
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But only one.

:2wave:
 
jamesrage said:
The government is not immortal and it is made up of people whom our citizens put into office or take out of office by voting for them or their opponents. Those in the government regardless if they were voted into office or appointed are the employees of the people(amazing how libs seem to forget this fact). They are representatives of the people and what ever they do they do in our name and our behalf.(amazing how libs seem to forget these details).

Even if we lived in a monarchy the Queen or King would not be responsible for what one their inbred ancestors di and therefore would have nothing to apologize for. Even if we lived in a dictatorship our government wouldn't be responsible for the actions of those before them.



Since the government represents the people then all the government would need to do is sign some piece of paper saying they apologize for slavery.



If thats the way to make it official then I guess thats what would have to be done. Maybe use tax breaks or something else as a bribe to get people to sign it.
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EXACTLY You just said the government just needs to sign some piece of paper that appologizes for slavery. That is exactly what I am saying, and nothing more.
 
nerv14 said:
EXACTLY You just said the government just needs to sign some piece of paper that appologizes for slavery. That is exactly what I am saying, and nothing more.
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The government aka we the people do not need to apologize for something the government aka we didn't do. I do not want the government apologizing because the government apologizing is really we the tax payers apologizing for **** we had nothing to do with and its a waste of our employees have better **** to do than to offer bull **** feel good bogus apologies to people who are no longer here.
 
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Fine fine, if no one is going to do it, I will.

Sorry!
 
What I don't understand is what we lose by apologizing.
 
nerv14 said:
If the US government hasn't appologized yet, then they should, but I thought that the US had appologized already though. A government and a country takes into account everything it has done in the past, (national debt is an example) so they would need to appologize.


Normal citizens shouldn't though, because that was in the past, and I don't like the idea of a collective appology :p

If someone contributed to segregation then they should appologize though, but thats still about an individual appology.
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They apologized for it by getting rid of it.
 
faminedynasty said:
The government ought to apologize for slavery. After all, it's the same government that facilitated slavery, it never fell to a revolution. And the economic effects of slavery are still obvious today. The average black family has around 1/6th the wealth of the average white family.
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However, there are wealthy blacks, blacks wealthier than whites, I wonder how they did this with all that "repression" they are going through?

:roll:


(Psst.... Its called hard work and not making excuses for ones self)
 
Inferno said:
No one should. How can someone unnamed apologize for this. Reparations should be paid to the families of slaves as was worked out after the War for Southern Independence.
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Reparations is the stupidest idea on the planet.
 
the makeout hobo said:
What I don't understand is what we lose by apologizing.
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By making it a binding declaration, a legal groundwork for paying reparations would be set. It could be pointed to that the government, itself, apologized and then lawsuits against the government would come for reparations based on the supposition that the government had already admitted fault.
 
the makeout hobo said:
What I don't understand is what we lose by apologizing.
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You mean what do we lose by abasing ourselves before power groups who are making unwarranted unreasonable demands on our convictions and our honor?

Why, what we lose is the opportunity to tell them to buzz off, we're not lowering ourselves to their level, and we lose the opportunity to be free of them.

We also lose the opportunity to point out that their demands are baseless, since the apology admits their validity.

Everything that can happen as a result of kissing ass like that is bad.

None of it is good.
 
jallman said:
I would have to own a slave or two before I could tell you whether I disliked it enough to be sorry for it.
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My post illustrates how its not the apology that counts, but who it is that is saying it. My apology to slavery is no more connected to slavery than I am.
 
johnjoel said:
My post illustrates how its not the apology that counts, but who it is that is saying it. My apology to slavery is no more connected to slavery than I am.
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But the US government, as an institution, was complicit in slavery.
 
the makeout hobo said:
But the US government, as an institution, was complicit in slavery.
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The US government today is not complicitis in slavery.Those in the government are not immortal,those in office today are not responsible for the actions of those before them.Those in the office past or present do the bidding of the voters and are the employees of the voters.

Since the government is the employees of the tax payers and the tax payers are the ones who put those in office then shouldn't it be the people who are the ones that should apologize? Demanding an apology from the government would be like demanding an apology from todays workers of a company over something that the owners a hundred years earlier of that company did.
 
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