Its funny that you actually think they really want an apology. Just as you teach our kids about WWII, we want you to teach them about slavery. Just as you teach our kids about Abraham Lincoln, we want you to teach them about slavery. Just as you teach our kids about the Holocaust, we want you to teach them about slavery. Just as you teach our kids that Columbus discovered America, we want to you to teach our kids about slavery. Just as the media talk about these things year after year, anniversary after anniversary we want them to also talk about slavery. This is the "apology" that most seek, and not the "I am sorry" apology that your ignorance refuse to profess.
Kids ARE taught about slavery for heaven's sake!!!! What do you want them to do, teach little white kids how to hate themselves, their ancestors, and self flagellate?
I've got a better idea. Why don't we, as a nation, put color and racism behind us and be one nation?
As for the ad hominem, that is completely unnecessary. You don't know me nor my level of education / intelligence.
Kids aren't taught much and slavery is called horrible and evil, but what it actually was and what it involved are glossed over. Forced labor was nothing compared with institutionalized sexual abuse and other actions which essentially treated them as objects. To illustrate this who here knows anything of Harriet Ann Jacobs without looking her up?
Can you connect Bonnie to Clyde? Himmler to Hitler? Kruschev to Stalin?
Why can't a "friend of a friend" be used to connect?
They look like really good friends today.
