Virginia apologizes for slavery... why?

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To express regret of slavery this many years later is rediculous. It would be more appropriate to express regret of more recent racist policies that some of them may actually have contributed to.

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if there are still feelings of resentment that have never been publicly addressed why is up to you to put a timeline on it to determine when it is no longer important? it is still relevant to a large part of the population of the state of virginia.