i believe your right about the full apology for slavery. but it wouldn't be fair to ignore the speach in 1997 that Bill Clinton gave to the victims of the tuskeegee syphillis experiments.


http://clinton4.nara.gov/textonly/New/Remarks/Fri/19970516-898.html


"The legacy of the study at Tuskegee has reached far and deep, in ways that hurt our progress and divide our nation. We cannot be one America when a whole segment of our nation has no trust in America. An apology is the first step, and we take it with a commitment to rebuild that broken trust. We can begin by making sure there is never again another episode like this one. We need to do more to ensure that medical research practices are sound and ethical, and that researchers work more closely with communities. "

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i think that clinton made a very respectable effort to go in that direction. and he explained the importance and value of apologies. this country has a huge ego and i am glad that clinton acknowledged a wrong.


here is another statement by him...from an interview
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http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/06/15/clinton/transcript.html


SESNO: We are mired in our history. A dozen white lawmakers
propose an apology to African-Americans whose ancestors were
slaves. Newt Gingrich says -- I think he called that
"emotional symbolism" -- that wouldn't teach one more child
how to read.

SESNO: How do you feel about that? Should there be an
apology, or is Newt Gingrich right?

CLINTON: To be honest, I didn't even know about this until
today. So I'd like some time to think about it.

But let me say generally, on the question of symbolism, an
apology -- under the right circumstances, those things can be
quite important. I think what I did on behalf of the
American people to those who were part of the Tuskegee
syphilis studies was very important.

SESNO: So you might favor an apology in this case.

CLINTON: I'd like some time to think about it. What I will
say, though, is that surely, every American knows that
slavery was wrong and that we paid a terrible price for it
and that we had to keep repairing that. And surely, every
American knows that the separate but unequal system we had
for 100 years after slavery was wrong. And surely, every
American knows that the discrimination that still exists in
this country is wrong.

And just to say that it's wrong and that we're sorry about it
is not a bad thing. That doesn't weaken us. Now, whether
this legislation should pass, I just need time to think about
that.


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