1.0 link 220120 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-m-swain/an-open-letter-to-preside_b_220120.html Last week the U.S. Senate passed a resolution apologizing for slavery and its Jim Crow aftermath. For reasons best expressed in the below letter to President George W. Bush, I believe that last week's resolution was the wrong resolution, passed by the wrong political party, at the wrong point in American history.

A simple resolution passed by a voice vote in a Democratically-controlled Congress does not have the same significance or moral force as a joint resolution...

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