Good.
A little too late.
One of the constitutional amendments on the April ballot is to abolish the Philadelphia traffic court. If only it was to abolish Philadelphia, it would pass overwhelmingly in this part of the Commonwealth.
So 70 years later.......
......will the city give all Black reparations for slavery too?
Why April 15? Was April 1 taken?
I appreciate this action. So much of the history of civil rights and discrimination focuses on the south. But here we see acknowledgement of discrimination having happened in the north.
Could someone enlighten me on the purpose that all of these apologies serve?
I don’t get it.
Mistakes were made-——and rectified.
Why all of the apologies-——years later?
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When will they apologize to Michael Irvin for cheering his career-ending neck injury?
Well, that only took 69 years.
I was at a Uriah Heep concert in Philly in 1973 and the crowd threw pennies at the band. I would now like to apologize for the crowds stoned behavior.
Meaningless gesture/attention grab. Jackie’s number is retired at Citizens Bank Park just like it is in every other major league stadium. Baseball long ago made amends to the Robinson family.
The dead can not issue or receive apologies.
In basketball he led the the team in scoring. After graduation and army duty he played semi-pro basketball for the Los Angeles Red Devils in the late forties. They said Robinson, at 5'11, used to regularly dunk in basketball games. The team was good enough to beat some NBA teams in exhibition games.
The NBA wasn't integrated until 1950, and some people thought Robinson could have been the first black player in the league. But by that time he had been a star with the Dodgers for several seasons, and anyway baseball was his favorite sport.