Senate apologizes
for slavery
As atrocious and inhumane as slavery was, this Senate resolution was not mentioned on one major news television outlet in America.
The U.S. Senate on Thursday, June 18, passed a resolution apologizing to African-Americans for the wrongs of slavery. The nonbinding resolution sponsored by Senator Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, is similar to a House resolution adopted in 2008 that acknowledged the wrongs of slavery but offered no reparations.
The House will have to vote on the issue again because the composition of that chamber changed after the November 2008 elections. The resolution was approved on a voice vote. Several states have passed similar resolutions, but the House resolution was the first time a branch of the federal government did so.
nonbinding
Slavery is witchcraft.
Harkin’s resolution acknowledges the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery,
and Jim Crow laws, and apologizes to African-Americans on behalf of the people of the United States for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow laws.
Some members of the African-American community have called on lawmakers to give cash payments or other financial benefits to descendants of slaves as compensation for the suffering caused by slavery.
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