The AP is reporting, and CNN is promoting as top news: Virginia expresses ‘profound regret’ for slavery. It’s not an apology, but it will be perceived as one — the AP story even describes it as such.
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The AP is reporting, and CNN is promoting as top news: Virginia expresses ‘profound regret’ for slavery. It’s not an apology, but it will be perceived as one — the AP story even describes it as such.
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So, who are the four Delegates who did not vote?
Does that make it all better?
Maybe if people understood that the US Army and the British Navy had more to do with ending slavery than a bunch of….
ya know what? forget it. It’s just a waste of time.
That’s right, VAB, I also wonder who are the four Delegates who did not vote? Anyway, as an American Black woman (no, Im not African-American!) I may catch some flak for this but I can’t help thinking that this is why so many of my people never get anywhere–they’re too busy harping on and living in the past. Time to wake up take responsibility for your own life and move on! This is the 21st Century for cryin’ out loud! None of the Virginia Delegates own any slaves or are said to condone slavery so why should they apologize for it? They want an apology? Then dig up the dead! Otherwise let’s move on!
Jim Scott, Bob Tata, Lee Ware, and Bill Howell didn’t vote.
To say nothing of your gender confusion — a woman here, a man on your blog.
I see that Hargrove voted “Yes.” Is anybody actually surprised that he caved?
An enormous number of people changed their votes, because the language of the vote itself changed.
What good does this do? Why do people want to apologize for something that they did not do? I’ve never understood it.
I guess I should reiterate a point that I’ve made before. Our representatives are representatives — they represent both their constituents and the state of Virginia. “They” — the state of Virginia — did permit slavery. It’s not the legislators who have apologized but, in fact, the state of Virginia, the very institution that permitted slavery in the first place.
Reasonable minds may disagree as to whether it’s worth apologizing for something for which there remain only indirect victims. And reasonable minds may disagree as to whether it makes sense for a government to ever apologize for anything. But I do not think that there’s room for debate on whether the state of Virginia allowed slavery. It did, and that state of Virginia was one and the same as the one we live in today.
But what good does it do, Waldo?
I have copies of wills from direct ancestors of mine in which they passed their property, including slaves, to their next of kin. Does this mean that I should apologize for my family’s role in slavery?
I find slavery repugnant. However, what good would an apology from me do for anyone?
What good does any apology do? If I step on your foot in a crowded shop, and then I apologize, does your foot hurt any less? Yet you would want that apology, and I would want to offer it to you. It does no good in the sense that it does nothing to relieve the harm. But it does a great deal of good in helping to make the world a better place.