Another suggested apology

To everyone who thinks they deserve an apology about slavery: I’m sorry.

I’m sorry you’re stuck in the past. I’m sorry you think you’re entitled to anything you haven’t earned.

I’m sorry you believe that because certain children of slaves who feel condemned to a life of oppression by a “white” majority are entitled to something their great great parents earned.

I’m sorry you live life according to what other people “do to you,” rather than how you do for yourselves.

I’m sorry you think the government is in any, proper way, a moral standpoint in which to give an apology of any kind of magnitude, based on the temporal shirttail of a practice (slavery) held since the beginning of time.

I’m sorry you don’t fight your way out of ghettos and “hard-knock” lives because there’s no opportunities for you, neverminding how many more government programs there are for you than for other races, or even foreign nationalities.

I’m sorry there are so many in power, who stay in power only because you believe their lies; their panderings to your feelings.

I’m sorry you’re so sorry.

On second thought, I’m not sorry, because I have never, and will never, own another person. My life is not even mine, it belongs to my God. I have no right to own another, I will never advocate it and I will support those who fight to end it.

I’m not sorry you’re stuck worrying about yourselves while your fellow countrymen – black, white, yellow – are fighting for the freedoms and liberties of people they’ve never met in a land across the ocean.

I’m not sorry you’re selfish and ignorant.

I’m not sorry at all.

Johnathan Cross
Marietta