Apologize for slavery?

Question

Does it make sense for the House of Representatives to apologize for slavery and Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 1

That and apologize for calling current workers lazy after laying them off. Also apologize for propaganda about Communism and making it out to be totalitarian as it was nothing like slavery as all Communism was about was people possessing their own currency  even making it for themselves. Also saying people under Communism were forced to work by forced labour when they had full possession of their currency.

Answer 2

No, they're not ones responsible for it.

Instead, let's focus on today's racists, like Al Sharpton!

Answer 3

no i dont think so.  im in no way racist and i can sympathize for people that went through segregation and slavery.  however, there have been major changes that have happened and there is now equality.  the current house did not vote for anything regarding slavery or issues of that time, therefore, should we be held responsible for our ancestor's mistakes.  i think we should just drop the race issue and put it in the past.  it gets really old.

Answer 4

did the egyptians or romans apologise for their slaves? doubt it pc madness. like its going to make a difference. are they going to apologise for wars? perhaps more relevant!! did they apologise to india for them being a colony?

Answer 5

h**l NO. Its like apologizing for the horse and buggy or public hanging. Its just the way things were back then. Jeez! I wish people would concern themselves with the future more than they do the past.  The World would be a better place.

Answer 6

a tony when they get you on the block you probley have an pass kicking coming take that stupid suit and that funny taggot stand down the road , have a nice day.

Answer 7

No apology is needed!!  This is pure insanity!

Answer 8

No. It makes no sense to apologize in the present-day for something someone else did over a century ago. to others who are no longer alive.

Should we have those of Italian descent apologize to the descendants of the Carthaginians? What about having the Danish apologize to the Picts? Maybe te English could aplogize to the Irish? Or the Greeks apologize to each other? Get real...

Answer 9

They can. It's more of a symbolic gesture though since no-one currently in Congress was even born until long after slavery had been formally abolished.

Answer 10

1) It never hurts to apologize.

2) It won't help anything to apologize, either.

3) The federal government already did something more important than apologize for slavery and segregation, it banned them.

Answer 11

Why not?  Didn't Germany apologize to the Jews for what they did?  The only thing wrong with it is that they should have done it a long time ago.

Answer 12

the issue is now dead and i think it is better to forget about this issue., there are no slaves today, so, apologise to whom