Repentance is a virtue, not a weakness.
After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, I researched other prior ones...including Lincoln’s. His was especially devastating and arguably set back race relations in our country for a century. Southern Reconstruction was a disaster. And the sin of slavery remained a stain just as Lincoln had called it.
Signaling.
You forgot the word “signaling”. Virtue signaling is in no way virtuous and is/of itself a weakness.
Your context needs to pretend quite the malicious concept that somehow America invented transatlantic slavery which is both historically incorrect and it is morally preposterous.
In the American context slavery was inherited.