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Originally Posted by chav1
why shoudl there be an appology all the slaves are dead and gone and my generation certainly didnt enslave them
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Simply because it does nobody any harm, and because slavery was wrong. Even the framers of the Declaration of Independence understood that slavery was a major problem, but decided to perpetuate the situation. There are many, many African-Americans alive today whose lives were gravely affected by the Jim Crow laws and other forms of American apartheid. These laws were put in place because America reneged on the concept that these people were equal in the eyes of the law. It took about a century after the Civil War to get serious about eliminating the ongoing effects of slavery.
When you distill the arguments against makng the apology, it effectivlely comes down to "I don't wish to apologize." Nobody has shown that there is any other reason not to do it.