sorry, i thought you had forgotten to include a link to the story, but then i realized it is a video story… just need to click on the picture.

Why should the state apologize for slavery? It is forcing people who have nothing to do with it to apologize for something they had no part of.

The State of Missouri is a perpetual entity. This is not about the people who reside in Missouri today. In the same way a wrong done by a large corporation remains a liability even 50 years later when it has a new board of directors and stockholders.

So, Antonio, what is the expiration date for slavery in this country? If there is none, then we need to go after all the world powers where slavery existed and especially in African nations today where it still exists.

And who will investigate the descendants of the 3,000 black slaveholders of black slaves in the South?

Slavery has such a complex and complicated history from ancient times to the present. On LINK TV black slaves today in the Middle East were surprised and angry to learn that their own people sold them into slavery. That is TODAY!

There is no “expiration date” for an apology. When should the world move on and forget the Holocaust? The answer is never.

Please don’t muddy the waters with talk of reparations and who would benefit. This proposal does not have anything to do with reparations.

Such resistance to a state apology for an obviously immoral action which has, and will continue to have, far-reaching and devastating consequences suggests to me that there is still a very serious problem in Missouri.

That’s my point, Antonio, then slavery wherever it occurred has no expiration date.

We sure have a lot of work ahead of us, especially in those lands where it continues today.

As for as here in the United States, the Cherokee Indian nation also had black slaves, as well as the 3,000 black households.

Missouri the government may apologize, but the people (most of whom came later and from elsewhere) do not.

I feel that those who feel that people today have nothing to do with what happened then are out of touch with reality. Just as the effects led to much of what is a liability for descendents of slaves, the descendents of slaveholders and other caucasions still benefit from what was done then.

righteous,
I understand what you are saying and agree that some in the state still benefit (in somewhat removed ways), but in my case (devoted teacher like yourself) I feel I make a positive effect on the black community, and make conscious efforts to do so every day)

Should I apologize for devoting my professional life to trying to erase racial barriers? I’m a part of “Missouri” and have been since the moment of my birth (long ago). Please understand that I don’t think I have anything to apologize for (personally).

Other than that, I do think there are some that need to apologize in some fashion.

Maybe when you apologize for turning the neighborhood where I grew up into a crime ridden slum.

Slavery ended when a new form of slavery began. Convict Leasing. Even in the years that followed freedom for slaves, the courts somehow were able to convict black men of crimes and sent them back to the plantations. I just can’t see a man fresh out of slavery trying to risk his freedom.