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I withdraw my part of the apology since I wasn't here and someone cannot inherit guilt.

Yea thats more important than a budget that would help all people living in CT. today!

Whew! I'm glad they've got their priorities in order! Worthless!

Worthless......disfunctional a'holes..................

ALL of them...............

I find it interesting that so many people are willing to dismiss an apology, for something so wrong, out of hand, without even an explanation.

Pete, you do offer an explanation, and you're right that none of us have inherited guilt from what others have done (although there are plenty of people alive today who *are* responsible for part of the history being apologized for).

This apology, though, isn't about any individual being responsible for slavery or Jim Crow. It's about the nation as a whole, acknowledging what happened, apologizing, and committing to finding ways to move forward together.

Apologies have been offered for other offenses committed by our nation. Why not for this one?

Because along with an apology there should be remorse. Most of us agree this was reprehensible, but none of us were here, and most of our ancestors immigrated to the US after this period in history.

I am soooooo glad I have moved out of the State of Connecticut so I am NOT apart of the apology. Just because I am white(and proud of it) I do not feel I have to apologize for something some white men did 150 years ago. My ancestors were not even in the United States till 1901. How about the legislature apologizing to the people of Connecticut for robbing them with ever increasing taxes??

I am glad that ALL the budget matters have been taken care of and the legislature can focus on some "feel good" legislation seeing all the IMPORTANT work is done.

What a waste of time. Oh well lets apologized for American Indian genocide, The Tex/American wars, Insulting the French and all other terrible things in our history that we have corrected. Oh I forgot the mistreatment of fags too.

WAY back THEN James it was a common practice ALL over the damn world............


This really isnt just a "black & white" issue, which most think it is.........


Indians enslaved other tribes when they fought a conquered them, not to mention when they took white, usually childern, into thier tribes...........


Country's back then enslaved thier captives....STILL goes on in Africa and the Middle East..........



I hope people people dont think back 300 years ago, slave ships pulled up to African nations and hordes of white people ravaged the countryside to bring back black captives to use as slaves...MOST of the slaves were sold by thier own people to the slave ships when they arrived.............



apology???????????


Was it a bad thing........hell yea..........


We basicly fought a damn war in this country over it..THOUSANDS were killed.......white & black...........


THAT was a good "apology".......

It's impossible to beat idiocy. I give up.

There seems to be a bit of confusion. This news story is about the U.S. Senate passing an apology for slavery, which will now go for a vote to the House. This isn't about Connecticut's apology, which took place two weeks ago.

"Frustrated," none of us were here during slavery. But it's not true that most of our ancestors immigrated afterward. Most Americans alive today are descended from people who came to these shores during slavery.

Lew, this apology was for slavery *and* for Jim Crow, which lasted into the 1960s. So those whose ancestors immigrated after slavery still benefited from that racist system.

Finally, "Hosed," I agree with almost all of your history. But the U.S. civil war wasn't a noble struggle to end slavery. The North was fighting to preserve the Union, and was deeply divided over whether or not to end slavery.

Seems Obama's 'America is sorry' apology tour is really catching on!
I'm not. I'm proud of my country. It may not be perfect, but it sure beats whatever is in second place. It's the greatest country the world has ever seen. No country or people in history have evolved without slavery in their past at some point. Many still practice it today! It is because of the United States and our desire to bring liberty to people to people all over the world that it is not more widespread.
I'm proud of my country and I will not apologize for it.

First of all, there are still some of us who are directly descended from the first Americans. I'm one of them, being of mostly Eastern Cherokee extraction.

Second, I'm curious as to where the apology for the Indian Removal Act of 1838 is. The US government used taxpayer money and federally funded soldiers to move five Southeastern Native nations to Oklahoma, with only a few of us escaping back to our homeland. It would make sense if the government apologized for its own actions in that case.

America can't apologize for their own acts of genocide, don't be silly.

APOLOGIZE?????
FOR WHAT????????

This area was the hot bed for Abolitionists

the Underground Railroad

the Amistad

more free men than in any other part of the country

THIS WAS THE PLACE TO GO IF YOU WERE BLACK AND WANTED A CHANCE


THIS IS GOING TO GO OVER LIKE A FART IN CHURCH BUT IF ANYONE SHOULD APOLOGIZE IT IS THE BLACKS

not all because some have made something of themselves, SOME make a living out of sucking off the system because the MAN got me down

well the freakin man got me down too, I get up and go to work

it should be

WE BLACKS APOLOGIZE TO THE STATE OF CT FOR LETTING YOU DOWN, YOU HELPED FREE US FROM SLAVERY, YOU FOUGHT AGAINST THE SOUTH AND YOUR KIN DIED FOR US, YOU ALLOWED OUR RELATIVES TO ALL MOVE HERE FROM WHEREVER AND IMMEDIATELY GAVE US WELFARE, JOB TRAINING, FOOD STAMPS, FURNITURE, A PLACE TO LIVE, WHATEVER WE WANTED, TRANSPORTATION, AND SOME OF US STILL REFUSE TO GET OUR ACT TOGETHER AND OUR KIDS ARE MAJOR SOURCE OF CRIME AND DRAIN ON THE SYSTEM BECAUSE THE MAN GOT US DOWN BECAUSE WE WUZ SLAVES


BILL COSBY IS RIGHT, AND IF OBAMA CAN DO IT, SO CAN YOU


now don't get me started on the illegals

by the way,before you start, I am PART african american

My great great grandfather was the first african american to graduate Yale as an MD-1857

his mom was the first AF/AM school teacher in New Haven

her dad fought with Washington during the Revolution and gained his freedom

they all worked very hard in the abolitionist movement

and after all that and the Civil War something in the late 1800's early 1900's happened, it just seems like there were no further gains

is this when the entitlements began ??

makes me think of the old saying

giva a man a fish and he eats for a day and you have to keep giving him your fish

teach him to fish and don't give him any more fish and he'll fish for himself

ok, you can hit me now

and the USA was the fighter behind the Danes who outlawed slavery before us and they went after slave ships etc we created freakin LIBERIA FOR CHRISTSSS SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I think this was all to shut up the cries for a payment to slave survivors,-reparations--- LOOK WE APOLOGIZE, NOW GO AWAY kind of thing

Slave: the reduction of slavery of many Slavic peoples of central Europe

that was the start of it

SLAVIC PEOPLE were captured and used for indentured labor

so they called them SLAV'S which became slaves

it was not only africans that were subject to this cruel lifestyle

so pick up your bootstraps and git'ovr'it'

man i gots to quit my job ayt mcdonalds cus like we wuz slavs an stuff lik that there an i gots the rite to be jamin with my blud-the man he mad us wurk and show up on tiim

man that be nu gud, sids i guts 4 kids wit 5 momas or it be 5 kids wit 4 momas dey beez aftr my bullyon, now wat i sayn?

gotz to git a hit

pluz my man gets me hookd up wit welfaar ans stamps lik dat der, i cud colleks as long siy wantssto, they ooos me

To James - The South was fighting for States Rights. I wish the South would have won, we would not be in the mess we are in now with the barack hussein obama socialist administration shredding states rights, individual rights and our Consitution.

Yeah, we'd just have slavery.

Why are we appologising for the past? I do not feel that anyone needs to take the responsibility of other peoples actions. It is how we behave that measures who we are.

"Robin Hood," do you really not know that Connecticut was a slave state with brutal laws regarding both enslaved and free blacks?

Do you really not know that Connecticut had barely abolished slavery before the Civil War? That the state was deeply divided over whether slavery should be ended? That the North didn't fight the Civil War to end slavery?

It's wonderful that Connecticut and other northern states slowly developed a liberal abolitionist movement, which greatly sped the end of slavery. But it's also important to note that terrible things happened here, which still affect the lives of many citizens today.