Re: Virginia apologizes for slavery... why?
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Many gross injustices can never be redressed, though.
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But is there something in between perfect redress and doing very little at all?
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By the way, I also should mention that I have a strong quibble with the use of the terms "we" and "our" as they are used throughout this thread. I'm not included in the "we" or the "our"...
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But can't "we" mean something akin to "our people," or those people of the past with whom we might be associated in terms of general ancestry or continent of origin, etc.?
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In my view, there are no redressments possible that make any real sense.
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Clear solutions are obscure at best. At one time, redress would have been relatively easy. All non-native-Americans could simply have either left this continent, leaving it to those who were here first, or perhaps worked out a mutually satisfactory agreement. Now, people would think such a thing was unthinkable, but would it be just?
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