[Corin Stormhands]

For one speech pause and say yeah - we own this history and we aren't proud of it.

Exactly. And we paid dearly for it with the blood of hundreds of thousands of young men on both sides. And it was paid for with the destruction of the southern economy and a huge drain on the resources of the Union.

I am a southernor. I am proud of my southern heritage. But some of it stinks.

It is true that slavery has been with mankind just about as long as there has been mankind. It is true that many people, from the Dutch to the colonists to the African chieftans who sold their own people bear the responsibility for the horror that was American slavery. It is true that many fine, upstanding people - people of faith, people of honor, people of integrity, were horribly wrong about slavery.

But, it is mostly true that the price has been paid. America owes no debt to the descendants of slaves. We can acknowledge it was wrong. But we own no-one an apology.

That debt has been paid.

[HairOfTheDog]

It isn't a campaign platform, just a visit, a part of a trip.... that he would be remiss to not acknowledge in a humble way, much as a visit to Aushwitz would mean he would have to speak of the horror that occurred there.

I agree that we can't and shouldn't carry guilt for actions before our time..... But it isn't impolite to apologize to those long dead on behalf of a country when in such a place.