Posted on 06/15/2018 7:53:03 AM PDT by Rebelbase
One of South Carolinas oldest cities may be apologizing for its prolific role in the U.S. slave trade, according to city documents.
Charlestons city council will consider a resolution recognizing, denouncing and apologizing for the role the South Carolina port city played in the slave trade, according to the councils agenda.
The formal apology will be considered for the first time on Juneteenth, a day aimed at celebrating the abolition of slavery.
The resolution which is scheduled for next Tuesdays meeting also says the city will commit to continuing to pursue initiatives that honor the contributions of those who were enslaved.
About 40 percent of slaves brought to North America passed through Charleston, according to the National Park Service. That counts for an estimated 200,000 to 360,000 people who survived the Middle Passage voyage from Africa to the Americas.
In Charleston, slaves were inspected by doctors in the port and sometimes quarantined before being auctioned off in the city, according to the National Park Service.
According to Live 5 News, the resolution was first brought to the city council by Charleston group the Social Justice Racial Equity Collaborative.
The group was created to bring about change in the city by starting conversations about racial inequality and injustice and promoting and developing culturally competent leaders, according to their website.
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more feel good virtual signalling. Why do people think liberals are competent to run any position in government?
I apologise for Adam defiling Eve....
I wear cotton underwear.
I’m sorry.
It’s white too, isn’t it?
Yeah, that should happen about the time the Muslims here apologize for providing the slaves in the first place.
South Carolina used to be such a lovely place. I could throw up.
No. They. Musn’t.
When are blacks going to apologize for their role in slavery, being slave owners and the ones who captured and sold their fellow blacks into slavery, not to mention legally starting to hold their fellow blacks as slaves??
An apology by people not remotely involved in the events, a hundred and fifty years after they happened, is only political theater and virtue signaling.
It is obscene.
It’s rather insincere to apologize for something you didn’t do. It’s almost mocking them.
When I wear silk undies, I apologize to the worms.
...and opens themselves up to countless demands for reparations for which they’ll be obligated, according to the leftist mindset.
You apologize for what you did. Dead people can’t apologize, so shut up.
Arabia has no race problem today because the mulsims had allah their slaves fully emasculated.
Put that in your NOI pipe and smoke it Farrakhan!
While they’re at it...they should rename the famous tourist attraction Slave Market to Diversity Row.
You can acknowledge the past but an apology for something others did seems pointless.
Leave it dead you @$$holes. No good can come of this virtue signaling crap.
I’d like to apologize for all the horrible wrongs that yesthatjallen has committed in this forum. There is no justification for his reprehensible acts.
Sounds almost like a “I didn’t do it so it’s easy for me to condemn others”
They should apologize for Jim Crow but some of those people are still alive.
Did y’all notice the article said apologize for the FIRST TIME?
Looks like they’re planning to make this an annual event.
Oh goody.
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