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I was talking with my friend and she said that no head of state of any country has publicly apologized. I said no way. Is this true?
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dis...? Dis.....? DIS....?!?!?!?!?
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The US did like last yr. Google it though because I don't remember all of the details of what the resolution was called.
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House Formally Apologizes For Slavery
Edit* Oh and LOL how they subtitle
[h2]Historic Move Does Not Mention Reparations[/h2]
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Why would they apologize? Did they enslave the people themselves?
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You had to go there didn't you.
They are head of countries that supported slavery. I don't see why no leader has. Especially with such a tragic occurrence that still holds affects today.
To be fair heads of states (especially presidents) don't apologize for anything.
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yo...i had to read twice.... i thought this thread said Slavery appreciation....whoa
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I would understand if the people that committed the acts were still alive today, then an apology is right
but
people who were not involved in the acts are not alive so why should some one take the blame?
Apologize as a country... maybe but it still seems pretty useless.
like blaming white people today for past acts, seems pretty unfair imo.
Like blaming the child of a murderer or something.....
then again I can be totally wrong...... someone can school me on this, open for opinions
but
people who were not involved in the acts are not alive so why should some one take the blame?
Apologize as a country... maybe but it still seems pretty useless.
like blaming white people today for past acts, seems pretty unfair imo.
Like blaming the child of a murderer or something.....
then again I can be totally wrong...... someone can school me on this, open for opinions
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The US has done a LOT of terrible things. Several apologies need to be made; I won't be holding my breath.
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They need to apologize to my man RiverxBear's people though for real.
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Is he Native American? Because if so, they already did. That one came before the slavery one in fact
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I'm not gonna turn this into a race debate..... take that *@$ over to http://niketalk.com/topic/164302?page=1
But IMO its just a formal way of recognizing "Hey, we committed this atrocity to people and built a nation on free labor. That was kinda effed up."I'm not going to get into my personal beliefs because its unnecessary and at the end of the day, not going to change anything on a sneaker board.
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i agree that white people should not be blamed. i am white however my family just came to this country in the 1920's way after slavery hadended.
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Here's a copy and paste of the one for Native Americans. It is just text, there's no actual laws or policies that piggyback off of it so why evenbother being perturbed about it? It's not like it says, We're sorry so here's a million bucks. It is just an acknowledgement and apology on behalfof the country in admittance that certain segments of the population were not treated fairly throughout the existence of the United States.
All that happened was it passes, some prominent member of that population takes a picture with somebody from the Government as a symbol and life goes on.Nothing actually changes from the day before it was passed to the day after
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oh, i get it now
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You know he won right?
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It's funny how resistant white people are to accepting any sort of generalization, when nobody else was involved in the perpetuation of such heinous actsagainst black and red people, against them yet are the first to do so against other groups, even in their defense of being resistant to admit any white personever did anything wrong. Look at how every reply to anything remotely race related turns into well you black people just complain.
And if it matters, I'm Italian so yes I'm blanco.
I mean we can't blame this one on the blacks and illegal Mexicans. But I guess we can do our damnedest to try to red herring the argument into a criticismagainst the non white groups and blaiming the victim, since our nation was built on that. It's similar to when a female is sexually assaulted and peoplesay, "well look how she's dressed, she wanted it."
And if it matters, I'm Italian so yes I'm blanco.
I mean we can't blame this one on the blacks and illegal Mexicans. But I guess we can do our damnedest to try to red herring the argument into a criticismagainst the non white groups and blaiming the victim, since our nation was built on that. It's similar to when a female is sexually assaulted and peoplesay, "well look how she's dressed, she wanted it."
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hmmm you alright with me don...you alright.
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But slavery taught us morals and values. Plus it kept us in lineOriginally Posted by archnoobie
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apology for slavery? are you kidding me? yeah it was horrible it happened, but if it didn't most of you wouldn't even be here.. and besides, africanssold their enemies to the white man, so who is there to blame?
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Orly? Thank you ever so kindly for taking us out of the horrible jungle and having only a few million of us die in transit. To a country foundedupon principles of freedom, but denying those same principles to those who are only "3/5th's of a person".
It's been well-documented that slavery in the New World was WAY different than slavery in Africa. Plus, this slavery was based on color and the fact thatafricans were sub-human, not because they lost a war or anything.
And by the way, I'd probably be here without slavery
