Maryland Apologizes For Slavery : Cost = $0.00 Worth Of Hot Air
- From: luminoso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Luminoso)
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:36:33 GMT
via cnn.com
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (AP) -- Maryland lawmakers approved an apology
Monday for the state's role in the slave trade, expressing "profound
regret" that it once "trafficked in human flesh."
Maryland follows Virginia in issuing a formal apology.
The vote in the House of Delegates makes the apology official, because
a resolution doesn't require the governor's signature. The state
Senate already approved it.
The resolution notes that slavery "fostered a climate of oppression
not only for slaves and their descendants but also for people of color
who moved to Maryland subsequent to slavery's abolition."
Co-sponsor Sen. Nathaniel Exum, a Democrat, said he was exhilarated
that Maryland lawmakers decided to finally recognize the painful role
the state played in slavery.
"Once we come to that recognition, maybe we will also recognize steps
we need to do to get rid of the lingering effects of it on the
people," Exum said.
In the 1700s, slave ships docked blocks away from the Maryland State
House, and thousands of enslaved men and women arrived in the town.
Slavery officially ended in Maryland with the adoption of a new state
constitution in 1864.
Author Alex Haley was doing research about his ancestors when he
discovered that a slave ship had arrived in Annapolis in 1767 carrying
one of his ancestors, Kunta Kinte.
The author's discovery led to his groundbreaking book "Roots."
A resolution to apologize for slavery passed the Maryland Senate last
year, but the House of Delegates took no action.
Virginia's legislature passed a resolution last month also expressing
"profound regret" for that state's role in slavery. Congress and
lawmakers in Missouri and Georgia are considering an apology.
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Apologies eh ? Those are CHEAP.
Where's the cash compensation ?
What's next, an apology to the amerindians for breaking
all those treaties and attempting a genocide ?
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