HOUSE ISSUES SLAVERY APOLOGY

WASHINGTON-

The House of Representatives issued an unprecedented apology recently to black Americans for wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow segregation laws.

Congress has issued apologies before- to Japenese-Americans for their internment during World War II and to native Hawaiians for the overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom in 1893. In 2005, the Senate apologized for failing to pass anti-lynching laws.

Five states have issued apologies for slavery , but past proposals in Congress have stalled partly over bullshit concerns that an apology would lead to demands fo reparations-PAYMENT FOR DAMAGES..Ya dig?

This recent resolution does not mention reparations. It does commit the House to rectifying "the lingering consequences of the misdeeds committed against African-Americans under slavey and Jim Crow".

It's time to get right about what was wrong and continues to be wrong with our country. It's a step in the right direction.

I still want my 40 acres and a mule. "LET ME GET THAT"..