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Old 06-19-2020, 11:30 AM
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How many ways does the country have to say that it's sorry for what folks in the past did? When I said this before, I was including the means of saying "sorry" such as affirmative action/quotas, school grants to minorities, quotas, etc. Is holding today's taxpayer accountable for someone else's mistakes, not the same as punishing the innocent?
I am not apologizing for anything, my family never owned slaves. I wasn't alive back then and had no hand in supporting slavery. In fact my maternal bunches of great grandfather came to America as an indentured servant. I guess I should demand some kind of restitution for hardship he endured. I demand that the name "America" be changed because of his servitude.