Well as a way to ring in the New Year the state of New Jersey is working on an actual atonement for slavery. Well it's only been 147 years or so, so why not. Good lord this is so pathetic. 147 years and all the black people in this country get from New Jersey is an official apology. How about some repartition for all the gains that those same politicians got from slavery. How about a real working justice system that doesn't profile African Americans. How about becoming a state where 8 out of 10 motorists stopped and searched weren't minorities (Source:Interim Report of the State Police Team Regarding Allegations of Racial Profiling, 1999).
No, the fine African Americans in New Jersey are going to get an apology. Not better living conditions, better education, a more equitable system to function in, but an apology. This thing is gonna be so hollow you will be able to hear an echo in it for years to come.
I am not saying that all of us as White people shouldn't apologize for slavery, we absolutely should have done it long before this. There is just so much more that we have to do, this is a bandaid for a bullet wound. I can just hear my White brothers and sisters now, "What the hell do you want, we apologized for the whole slavery thing."
I hope that all of you who heard about this apology had a good laugh. Not because it was funny, but because it was so absurd that you just had to. Later
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