A Heartfelt Apology to Black People Everywhere
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4 min readMay 28, 2020
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…