The United States Senate recently apologized for slavery. Specifically, for allowing the institution of slavery to exist in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
In my opinion, the U.S. Civil War made apology unnecessary. Hundreds of thousands of people died to free the slaves. (Some say that the Civil War was not about slavery, but it was: the South seceded to preserve the institution of slavery.)
People alive today who fault the current United States for slavery that was ended almost 150 years ago will never be satisfied; apologizing to them is futile.
Slavery still exists in the world today. Rather than focusing on wrongs performed by people who have been dead for generations we should focus on wrongs being committed this very minute.
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