How do you know when there is a bandwagon? When everyone jumps on, of course:
More than 140 years after slavery was abolished, Congress and a growing number of elected officials in states and cities are wrestling with whether to formally apologize.
The movement began in the former Confederate capital, Richmond, Va., with state legislators last month unanimously passing a resolution expressing "profound regret" over Virginia's role in slavery and the Jim Crow era.
Now, lawmakers in Georgia, Maryland, Delaware, New York, Missouri, Massachusetts and Vermont are considering similar measures that would express regret, apologize or create commemorative days.
Let my add my personal apology. I am very sorry that some people who lived and died long before I was born owned some other people who lived and died long before I was born. That was wrong of them, and I think very poorly of them because of it. I hope my position is clear.
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>...I think very poorly of them
>because of it. I hope my
>position is clear.
No, it isn't. But you knew that. Sometimes, these things need to be done for the sake of the record, and history. It isn't the practical result that counts, it's the gesture and the pageantry.
What I wonder is, how long is this sort of thing going to go on before somebody declares that the latest suggestion for a further mea culpa by the USA is just a tiny bit crackpot.
Take it to the bank, there will come such a point, when the apology is made and further incarnations will become needlessly repetitive.
IMHO, as always. I say that because Lord forbid I should become mistaken for one of those extremist Internet commentators. I'm strictly and unpredictably middle of the road.