Didn’t we handle this approximately 150 years ago?

Connecticut legislators are considering making their state the first in New England to apologize for slavery and other racist policies of old.

A legislative committee is hearing testimony on the resolution Monday.

The resolution says slavery was practiced in Connecticut from the 17th through 19th centuries. There were about 5,100 slaves in the Connecticut colony by the mid-1770s. That’s about 3 percent of the population at the time.

The resolution also urges schools and organizations to acknowledge Connecticut’s evolution from a colony to a leading state in the abolition movement.

New Jersey last year became the first Northern state to apologize for slavery. Five other states have done so.

There’s not a soul today who needs to apologize for anything.  I’m sick of this political race pandering bullcrap.

I guess these guys weren’t from Connecticut.  If they were, maybe we should dig them up so they can finally say they’re sorry.

Let’s get the war between North and South officially off of the public agenda.  We have some real and present Right and Left issues of “slavery” to deal with.

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