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That's pretty awesome. It reminds me of one of my favorite questions: Why don't black people do something to recognize all the POSITIVE that a lot of white people have done on their behalf, instead always focusing on the negatives. Not to discount the trials and tribulations, but the bottom line is, if ALL the white folks in America had said, sorry, we're not going to let you share in our society and our dream -- they would all be second class citizens at best, slaves at worst.

If Klintoon gave the apology for slavery, then where is the black "thank you" in response to all those who made their present day status as equal members of these United States possible?

Good points. The reason people like Jesse Jackson focus on the victimization is because you can't pretend to be Moses if the people you're trying to lead have equality.

As for apologies, when Lincoln, in his Second Inaugural Address, called the Civil War God's judgement for slavery (and said we deserved even worse!) I took that as a pretty frank admission by the U.S. Government that slavery was wrong. If saying, "This thing we did was so bad we deserved millions of deaths as our punishment" is not an apology, what the heck is?