Originally Posted by ladym

This is just so much crappola---an empty gesture. The people who are alive today in Virginia had NOTHING to do with holding anyone in bondage so why apologize for something you have never done and would never do? All the Blacks who now live in Virginia have NEVER been held in bondage by a Virginian (or anybody else for that matter) so why do they rate an apology for something that was foisted off on their ancestors and had nothing to do with them personally? I don't think in a sane world that someone ought to be held accountable for what their great-great-grandpappy may have/may have not done to somebody else's great-great-grandpappy 150 years before any of the present parties were ever born. For present day Virginians to apologize to anyone for what their ancestors may have done is about insane---the present day citizens of Virginia had no say in what their ancestors did, nada, none, nil...so why apologize for something bad they might have done?

Some of my ancestors probably killed the hell out of some of yours (and vice versa) but I don't expect any of you to apologize to me and if you are waiting for me to apologize to you (for what our ancestors did to each other) pull up a chair because it will be a long wait.

We have a lot of problems in this country, to many problems to spend any precious time catering to this kind of whiney-assed snot blowing by a minority who seems to be shot full of "you owe me" because of what your ancestors did to mine. My ancestors got f_____ over too BUT I'm not going to spend any time grieving about it, what I plan to do is see that "I" don't get f_____ over by anybody. That way we can all get a respite from all this PC bullshit that just takes up to much time.