Finally someone has offered an apology for its role in Black Slavery. The state of Virginia announced and apology for taking part in slavery. The resolution says government- sanctioned slavery "ranks as the most horrendous of all depredations of human rights and violations of our founding ideals in our nation's history, and the abolition of slavery was followed by systematic discrimination, enforced segregation, and other insidious institutions and practices toward Americans of African descent that were rooted in racism, racial bias, and racial misunderstanding." Basically they are saying "Were sorry for being Ignorant and Stupid."
I wrote in one of my blogs that our government should've a long time ago confessed the sins of the past and apologize for the mistreatment of African Americans in the age of slavery.
I think racism and slavery is a huge black eye and embarrassment of our country. We go after other countries for their role in ethnic cleansing and our countries past is full of this kind of cleansing.
Finally somebody stepped up to the plate and tried to clean up the mess from the past. It might be a little to late for such an apology, but better late than never. May The Living God we serve continue to bring out more of the same from other state governments. And I pray "Racism" will come to an end.
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