[FrankR]

I will never apologize.

I wasn't there.

I wasn't even alive.

I never owned a slave.

I never bought a slave.

I never sold a slave.

I never owned a plantation.

The only cotton I ever touched is on Q-tips in my medicine cabinet.

I challenge any former slave still living to come forward and claim that I was there and participated.

I can't control events and attitudes of over 100 years ago.

Every culture has had its slaves, every culture has had its kings, it's time to get over it.

If your great-grandparents were slaves, that does NOT make you a victim.

If my great-grandparents owned slaves, that does not make me a slave-owner, or a racist.

We've heard the Roots thing long enough; there are enough laws in place that slavery could not make a comeback even if anybody wanted it to...which nobody does.

The fact that it took you 200 years to finally stand up and demand your freedom is no concern of mine, I wasn't there. Therefore, I refuse to apologize for something I did not do and had no part in...

[boop]

Don’t forget is was white male Christians who abolished slavery in the free world. Slavery still exists in much of Africa.

[Corin Stormhands]

I will never apologize...

You miss the point. McDonnell did not apologize for slavery. (The General Assembly did that a couple of years ago).

He apologized for not acknowledging slavery in the proclamation to begin with.

Virginia is about to reap a whole bunch of money from history buffs coming here for the 150th Anniversary of the War. McDonnell was right to call attention to it.

Was it a little clumsy in the drafting? Maybe. But he did the right thing by amending the proclamation.

[nina0113]

The fact that it took you 200 years to finally stand up and demand your freedom is no concern of mine, I wasn't there.

That never happened. Their freedom was a gift from white men who bought it with their blood.