A Heartfelt Apology to Black People Everywhere

Janet Ashforth
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)
4 min readMay 28, 2020

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Because someone needs to say it.

In 2008, the US government issued a formal apology for 400 years of slavery and the subsequent discrimination of the jim crow laws that marked African-Americans as second-class citizens.

Few people deserve a formal apology more than the millions of Black Americans whose ancestors were kidnapped from their country, violently…

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Janet Ashforth
An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

Health and Wellness Author, Psychedelics Guru, Anti-aging Specialist