White people of saidit apologize for slavery

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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Well I certainly hope so, but I know that most white people are too dumb and filled with bigotry to apologize. To feel shame. That takes intelligence, and the ability to blush, which white people DO NOT have. God obviously didn't care much for white folk, he created black people to show the way humans are meant to look, act, and behave. Yes I'm white, yes I'm wealthy, but I'm also intelligent enough to know that 1) all humans come from Africa originally, 2) slavery existed long before Americans came along, and 3) we white people have a lot to make up for in spite of all that. Nothing can make slavery anything but an ugly and immoral institution. NOTHING.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

How is it fair to make us make up for something we didn't do, to people who weren't even the victims of it?

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That's the great excuse people give, "I didn't do it, why should I make amends for it." Because it's a humanity problem, not just a question of one person's guilt. All of us were victims of it, in case you didn't realize that, and we all should strive to make up for it so we don't keep making the monstrous mistakes of the past, that keep dragging ALL of us back down in the mud.