By Selwyn Duke

During the past year, five states have apologized for slavery, and now there’s an effort to follow suit in Congress.  Personally, I find this sickening.  And I’d like to make something clear: If our esteemed "leaders" issue such an apology, they do not do so on my behalf.  Leave me out of it.

It’s not that I’m enamored of slavery.  Quite the opposite; not only have I never owned slaves, but my ancestors weren’t even in the country during antebellum days.  (Given the Roman Empire’s penchant for enslaving Europeans, though, you never know, a few of my ancestors might have been slaves.)  And Roger Clegg of the Center for Equal Opportunity put it very well.  His position is related in USA Today:

An apology is counterproductive, Clegg says.  "It
taps into white guilt and helps perpetuate social programs the civil
rights establishment likes, such as racial preferences and ultimately
reparations," he says.

Clegg says that an apology serves "no legitimate
purpose since the villains and victims are long since deceased" and
that such an action could instead be divisive and "keep racial wounds
alive."

Of course, this is just common sense.  Yet there’s far more to it.

If a nation is to start apologizing for the sins of its past, where will it end?  Where should or could it end?  Any country, no matter how well conceived, no matter how well it has conducted its affairs, will have innumerable misdeeds for which to account.   Are we going to discriminate between wronged groups, deciding that some will be offered apologies while others won’t?  Will we hear Russia apologize for the persecution of the Ukraine, Turkey for the Armenian genocide, or Japan for the rape of Nanking?  This is just a case of the squeaky wheel getting the grease.

If the government really is dead set on issuing apologies, however, I can offer some guidance.  There are plenty of sins the politicians alive today have to expiate, and here’s a short list:  Apologize to the taxpayers for stealing an inordinate amount of their wealth and wasting it, and using it to fund pet projects, social engineering schemes, and bureaucracies that oppress them.  Apologize to every American citizen for allowing the country to be invaded by unassimilable, often un-American foreigners who come here and steal our national treasure.  And apologize for trampling the Constitution (e.g., states’ rights, establishment clause, eminent domain) — our national contract — which you do because it stands in the way of your statist aims.  These are wrongs being committed here and now against all Americans, white, black, yellow and red.

Of course, the politicians wouldn’t want to apologize for things they’re actually responsible for and could do something about, because it would be an acknowledgment that they have done wrong and need to change their ways.  It’s easy to apologize for others; it makes you seem big, doesn’t require a confession of your own misfeasance and places the onus elsewhere.  What gilded phonies our politicians are.

At the end of the day, such apologies will do not a whit of good anyway.  Until leftists, both black and white, stop instilling American blacks with a philosophy of bitterness, nothing will change.

Oh, I should correct myself, as something will change.

Things will get worse.

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