[mainsail that]

“Somebody apologizing for me, without my say so, to someone I never wronged, for something I didn’t do.”

I mostly agree with the the rest of your argument, but you elected the President, Congress and Senate. With ‘you’ I mean Americans, and the elected officials can do a lot of things in our behalf from starting wars to enslaving our kids to the Chinese via debt. An apology for past wrongdoings is a sign of maturity.

[Gator113]

“An apology for past wrongdoings is a sign of maturity.”

Sure, if you shoot out the barn windows with your BB gun. Same thing if you put cow chips under you younger brothers pillow and salamanders in your dads work boots. Heck, that also holds if you dropped a dozen water filled balloons onto the heads of nuns from the second story at school back when you were in the 8th grade.

BUT, we were not here...WE did nothing wrong.

THIS entire conversation is stupid and those of you that are buying into it are fools, damn fools.

[fr_freak]

An apology for past wrongdoings is a sign of maturity.

An apology from the person(s) who committed the past wrongdoings may be a sign of maturity, but an apology by a person for the supposed wrongdoings of others over a century after the fact, outside of the context of the events, is asinine, and is usually done only out of a desire to ingratiate oneself to a particular interest group. As other have mentioned here, not only were many indian tribes brutal murderers rather than the peaceful earth-worshiping hippies that Hollywood makes them out to be, but there probably isn't a man alive who was involved in killing an indian, nor are there many who would condone such a thing. So why grovel about it now? What purpose does it serve? To save you time, I'll answer that: it serves nothing other than meaningless political expediency, and the need for many (white) self-loathers to wallow in their own feces. It is not a sign of maturity in this case. It is a sign of childishness.

[Eagles6]

"In the text, the resolution "acknowledges years of official depredations, ill-conceived policies and the breaking of covenants" by the U.S. government toward tribes and "apologizes on behalf of the people of the United States to all Native Peoples for many instances of violence, maltreatment and neglect inflicted on" American Indians by U.S. citizens."

He is apologizing on my behalf. Fine if he wants to apologize on behalf of the Feds but not for me.

I don't believe it is a sign of maturity but just the opposite. Apologies delivered due to political correctness are are given because of pressure and/or emotions, not logic and reason