I want to thank the legislature for doing what should have been done decades ago. To say that you are sorry now, especially when there is a probability of an African-American becoming the next President of the United States, is a bit disingenuous. To reconcile the irreparable damage that has been done to generations of African-Americans would cost the government too much money. Forget about the forty acres and a mule, how about a little respect for what African-Americans have had to overcome. I believe that any other oppressed and enslaved group would have waged some sort of war against their slave masters. Yet, African-Americans continually forgive those who have done them the greatest harm.
