{"id":18140,"date":"2015-12-07T19:54:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T19:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlines.madeostudio.com\/article\/delaware-wants-apologize-slavery\/"},"modified":"2015-12-07T19:54:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T19:54:31","slug":"delaware-wants-apologize-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlines.com\/article\/delaware-wants-apologize-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaware Wants to Apologize for Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n By Kenrya Rankin<\/span> Dec 07, 2015<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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On the 150th anniversary of the December 6, 1865, ratification of the 13th Amendment<\/a>\u2014which abolished slavery in the United States\u2014the state of Delaware announced<\/a> plans to formally apologize for the role it played in the slave trade.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor generations, our country denied and actively contested a basic fact of humanity: that nothing about the color of one\u2019s skin affects that person\u2019s innate rights to freedom and dignity,\u201d Democratic governor Jack Markell told the congregation at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilmington on Sunday. \u201cWe must publicly and candidly acknowledge the lasting damage of past sins\u2014damage that continues to reverberate more than 150 years after the abolition of slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n

The governor and state legislators have drafted a house joint resolution that, if passed by the primarily Democratic General Assembly (GA), would apologize for the state\u2019s history of slavery.<\/p>\n

Delaware Senate Majority Whip Margaret Rose Henry\u2014who will co-sponsor the resolution when it goes before the GA in early 2016\u2014explained the need for the resolution in a statement<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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Slavery is the darkest chapter of our nation\u2019s history. And while the page has long been turned, the scars from the whippings, the bruises from the shackles, the tears from the torment can still be felt all these years later in the continued struggle against racism, prejudice and the power of the privileged. Who we are as a state and nation is shaped by our history\u2014the good and the bad. And who we can be tomorrow is predicated upon our ability to show empathy for each other today. In my view, an apology for slavery is just that: an act of empathy that won\u2019t undo the past, but will once and for all acknowledge the experience of so many Delawareans who still feel its harsh effects.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

(H\/t Reuters\/The Huffington Post<\/a>)<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n

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