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Over 200 years ago savy buisnessmen shipped humans across the Atlantic to used them as forced labor on american plantations. The practice was terrible and was abolished after the civil war. The scars of the legal slave trade still exist today in african american culture, the question is does the U.S. government need to apologize for what happened so long ago? No, the U.S. government shouldn't have to apologize for slavery.
The governmenty didn't actually support the slave trade, it was individual slave traders who ran the buisness, the government just didn't make it illegal. True it did make money from the trade, but it hardly supported it. In fact, it was a cause for the civil war, so obviously a large part of the government was concerned about the issue, concerned enough to go to war over it. If the government at the time of slavery is willing to commit to a civil war over it, it shouldn't need to apologize now.
Presently no one is alive who was a slave, it was generations ago. It is still is part of the diverse african americna culture in society, but today it is a sore topic and hardly anyone would ever consent to it being the best time in our nations history. If the government apologized today it would suggest that the people today did something wrong, when in fact they never did. No one today can be blamed for what their ancestors might have done.
There is a tax deduction in act right now that if you can prove you were ever related to a former slave you can get a write-off. It isn't an apology, but it is one of many financial compensations the government has offered to make up for what it did in the past. The government is using tax payers money to award those who have suffered under it's mistakes, mistakes that the typical american probably didn't support. The government is taking enough from the american people for what it has done wrong, it shouldn't take any more for what it didn't do wrong.
The government may not be prefect, and has a long list of terrors it has inflicted on the world that should more than apologizer for, but slavery isn't one of them. it never acted as a direct vehicle for slavery, and even battled for decades to eventually put an end to it. The government should be let off the hook on this one, because the only people who should apologize for slavery are the slaveowners.
The governmenty didn't actually support the slave trade, it was individual slave traders who ran the buisness, the government just didn't make it illegal. True it did make money from the trade, but it hardly supported it. In fact, it was a cause for the civil war, so obviously a large part of the government was concerned about the issue, concerned enough to go to war over it. If the government at the time of slavery is willing to commit to a civil war over it, it shouldn't need to apologize now.
Presently no one is alive who was a slave, it was generations ago. It is still is part of the diverse african americna culture in society, but today it is a sore topic and hardly anyone would ever consent to it being the best time in our nations history. If the government apologized today it would suggest that the people today did something wrong, when in fact they never did. No one today can be blamed for what their ancestors might have done.
There is a tax deduction in act right now that if you can prove you were ever related to a former slave you can get a write-off. It isn't an apology, but it is one of many financial compensations the government has offered to make up for what it did in the past. The government is using tax payers money to award those who have suffered under it's mistakes, mistakes that the typical american probably didn't support. The government is taking enough from the american people for what it has done wrong, it shouldn't take any more for what it didn't do wrong.
The government may not be prefect, and has a long list of terrors it has inflicted on the world that should more than apologizer for, but slavery isn't one of them. it never acted as a direct vehicle for slavery, and even battled for decades to eventually put an end to it. The government should be let off the hook on this one, because the only people who should apologize for slavery are the slaveowners.