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Chinese Exclusion Act

KingMerv00 said:
An apology should have been issued in 1942.
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A bit difficult to apologize for an event that was ongoing ;)
What you meant was that it should not have happened.

Even the service of the 442nd Regiment Combat Team/100th Battalion did not erase the racism directed against Japanese Americans after the war.
 
The most ironic (is that the right word here) apology was the U.S. govt's apology for the Indian Removal Act. Andrew Jackson creates a murderous policy which dwindles the Natives numbers down to near-genocide levels. Over a century later, the govt apologizes and gives the natives' decendents money for their ancestors' suffering. When they go cash their check from the U.S. treasury, whose face is on the paper bills they receive? Andrew Jackson.
 
UNLoVedRebel said:
The most ironic (is that the right word here) apology was the U.S. govt's apology for the Indian Removal Act. Andrew Jackson creates a murderous policy which dwindles the Natives numbers down to near-genocide levels. Over a century later, the govt apologizes and gives the natives' decendents money for their ancestors' suffering. When they go cash their check from the U.S. treasury, whose face is on the paper bills they receive? Andrew Jackson.
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While we're at it, lets apologize to Great Britain for starting that awful war in 1776.
 
I'm more in the camp that an apology that doesn't come directly from the offender or given directly to the offended has little value.
 
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