Does the United States Need To Formally Apologize To African-Americans For Slavery?
The state of Virginia is seriously considering issuing a formal apology to African-Americans for it’s historical role in the African Slave Trade. Many people are publicly expressing opposition to what many rational individuals around the world feel is a necessary step in healing some of the wounds that African-Americans still carry with them as a result of hundreds of years of racism and oppression. If the United States is truly sorry for perpetuating one of the most vile and dehumanizing episodes of human history, then it should have no problem apologizing for it. That is the least it can do to help rectify the racial situation that it created. When slavery was abolished at the end of the Civil War, the United States government felt it necessary to give white slaveowners reparations for the loss of their labor force. They actually compensated white racists whose lack of morality and immense greed not only stripped away the very humanity of Black people but also plunged this country in
