I apologize for telling congress as a whole to go fuck themselves.
Believe me, I understand that some white people might feel the need to apologize for something so heinous so, atrocious as slavery, but newsflash: EVERYONE RESPONSIBLE FOR SLAVERY IS DEAD! I'm not sure how up on your US History you are but that shit ended in 1853... Am I to believe that an apology issued 156 years later is in any way honest or sincere? There have been so many historical moments in these last 156 years. From the end of segregation to women's suffrage. Why didn't the US apologize 100 years ago? Because they weren't sorry then and now it's too late to be sorry. I equate this apology to a guy telling a girl that he gave her the herps:
"Hey kiddo I'm really sorry that I gave you an incurable disease. On the plus side it's genital herps so at least you don't have to deal with embarrassing cold sores on your lips. I really hope that you learn to live with it and don't spread it around, lord knows I meant to tell you but at the time, you were naked... I was naked... It just seemed like bad timing to be all like... Hey I really want to bang you but first I should warn ya', I got the herps well anyway, At least it wasn't AIDS!"
Do you see my point at all? This apology couldn't be any more insincere. And Let me tell you I know what you're thinking: R. Malik Green, what about what the black leaders will say? They will say that this was a great victory in the civil rights movement. that Dr. King's dream is that much closer to being a reality! FUCK THEM TOO!!! What have Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton done for us? Dr. King's dream died with him... Barack isn't what Dr. King had in mind. Yes, he is the realization of a dream, but what Dr. King wanted was complete and thorough equality. We don't have that yet, we won't have it until we discontinue identifying ourselves by anything other than Americans. This is a totally different topic and should be addressed in a different blog but it's still the truth.
If you read through the apology you'll notice something; the way that it's worded purposely avoids reparations, because after all where do we start? How do go back and pay people for work they never did? Do we give "Chocolate" Americans (Thank you Larry Wilmore) money for work that they never did? And how much do we give them? What if your "Milk Chocolate" (Your are both black and white)? Do you only get half as much as a person whom is full black? This is a solution that died when Andrew Johnson was granted the presidency..
There is no reparation that can nor need be paid to us.. We have to move on and keep plugging away for more important issues like equality..
Or you could just give us the Super Dome.
