Moore Misleading

Michael Moore states near the end of this documentary that WE should apologize for slavery and for killing the original natives. He does not say who the WE are. I am guessing he means white Americans of European descent. He may also mean the descendant US citizens of the Spanish who brought African slaves to the new world more than 100 years before white Europeans did.

Michael Moore must have been making a different documentary back in 2008 and 2009 when the US House of Representatives and the US Senate each wrote and presented official apologies for slavery to appease those who were asking for one back then. Here are links to both apologies with dates they were finalized.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/hres194/text

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/sconres26/text

I believe that an apology is supposed to be heart felt and sincere. Something that one person would offer to another person when asking for forgiveness for some act that they actually committed. It should not be an empty gesture to be tossed around like water.

If anyone is interested, here are some other links with acknowledgements from recent African leaders who understand that their ancestors played roles in capturing other Africans and selling them to slave traders. Some of them have offered diplomatic apologies some have refused stating that apologies don't change the past.

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/41431

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/history/slave-trade.php

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-05-01/news/0005010158_1_slave-trade-benin-president-mathieu-kerekou

https://www.modernghana.com/news/102692/1/ghana-apologizes-to-slaves-descendants.html

I did this research in good faith to help offset biased opinions. I am not making excuses for anyone in history who was guilty of being a participant in the slave trade.

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