~EdT.

My attitude on this sort of ties in to these non-binding resolutions that the US Senate feels the need to work on. They spend weeks debating and arguing over the wording of something that will carry no weight on the issue. Its a waste of everyone’s time.

Link here.

Thanks for your thoughtful response. It took me nearly all day to write it, and my conclusion wasn’t formed when I started.

One of the things in my mind as I wrote it was the very concern you bring up: reparations — an aspect of the debates that I, too, am against. That is, in fact, partly why I laid my own history as the foundation. It’s a great example of the impossibilities of compensation.

The web is too tangled, and too many years have passed — which also brings the LOOOOOOONNGGG-expired statute of limitations into things. Reparations are not possible, even if they were achievable or at this late date desirable.

This suspicion having been raised leads one to ask, what other motivations might well be fueling the call for an apology? Pragmatically speaking we’ve noted that the call comes from Black Politicos and not the masses of their Black constituents, though many of the more vocal constituents seem to echo their assent to the call once made. Thus we see that it plays well to the constituents and seems to be a good ploy on the part of the Black politicians. Would an apology necessarily hurt the European-American community or would it simply serve to defuse the issue?

The intellectual dishonesty noted by so many European-Americans gives rise I believe to a well founded fear that once the apology is made, it serves to justify making the “connection” of culpability which, prior to the apology, is near impossible to make. Once justified, the connection could then serve to justify a host of measures designed to equalize the situation, including but not limited to rapacious taxation and property takings aimed specifically at the European-American middle and upper middle income groups with an eye toward compensating descendant’s of slaves. This result if it were to occur would serve to push a great many European-Americans over the tipping point. And it’s that “point” which I don’t think most Black Americans or their politicians fathom, i.e., that the hostility to such moves would be leveled at Blacks, but rather at the government seen taking such moves. And in that, lies great peril to every American.