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Originally Posted by swa(y)

what a fucking joke...a day late and a dollar short.

theres not one person alive today that was a slave....nor is there anyone whos parents were slaves.

what do they theink they are doing? making something "right"?

there are a lot of people (believe it or not) that one way or another still suffer from the consequences of slavery. i know this may seem like a stupid empty gesture, but for a state to recognize its fuckups, no matter how late, it helps prevent future wrongs, it opens the door to making amends (such as paying reparations), and it clarifies what is right and wrong in the state for future wannabe politicians with ideas of aryan supremacy and shit like that. oh yes, those people exist, ridiculous as it sounds. slavery may have ended with the civil war, but alabama continued to be ran by bigots during the XX century.