Sunday, December 13, 2015

OPINION_ The right way to apologize for slavery

BOSTONGLOBE.COM

OPINION
JEFF JACOBY

The right way to apologize for slavery



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Delaware Governor Jack Markell wants his state to apologize for slavery.

By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist
December 13, 2015

Eight American states have apologized in recent years for their involvement in slavery. Delaware’s governor wants his state to follow suit.

“It’s essential,” said Governor Jack Markell on Dec. 6, the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 13th Amendment that abolished slavery in the United States, “that we publicly and candidly and wholly recognize the everlasting damage of those sins.” He urged legislators to approve a joint resolution declaring that Delaware “denounces and deplores” the slavery that existed within its borders for more than two centuries.

Of course nothing Delaware’s political leaders say about slavery today can undo even a particle of that toxic, painful history. The inhumanity of slave labor, its cruel assault on human dignity, the generations of suffering and brutality it licensed — those stains on Delaware’s, and America’s, moral record are permanent. An apology will change nothing.

Yet that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be made.


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Of course nothing Delaware’s political leaders say about slavery today can undo even a particle of that toxic, painful history. The inhumanity of slave labor, its cruel assault on human dignity, the generations of suffering and brutality it licensed — those stains on Delaware’s, and America’s, moral record are permanent. An apology will change nothing.


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JUST "
An apology (itself) will change nothing."
And
THIS is NOT just for AMERICA,
THIS SHOULD BE for All The WORLD

What do YOU think?


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