“We pray with you today because we have greatly sinned and because we are profoundly sorry.”
Pandering to racial animus is not going to help matters...
News flash....
Cain apologizes for the untimely demise of Abel.
Full story on NPR.
Apologies are one thing but perhaps reparations directly to the descendants are in order. They should have the names, so do some work and pay them. Its a social justice thing right?
Somebody brought up a continuum of discrimination, citing slavery, Jim Crow, the school to prison pipeline, over incarceration of people of color........
These people will never be satisfied that enough has been done to redress the problems of the past.
And I never understand the need they have to focus on the distant past. We abolished slavery. Yes it was horrible that it was allowed but we abolished the practice. Yes Jim.Crow was bad but we passed civil rights laws to do away with legalized segregation.
We have instituted policies such as affirmative action to try to right the wrongs of the past.
But no matter what we do It seems that it will never be enough.
Or tpsparaphrase others, we can do the apology thing and tell about what has been done to make up for the past, but someone will still want their reparations.
“We pray with you today because we have greatly sinned and because we are profoundly sorry.”
Pandering to racial animus is not going to help matters...
Who are the slaves to whom they apologized?
In 1838, slavery was legal in Washington, D. C. and in all the surrounding states. In fact, in 1838, slavery was legal in half of the states of the United States.