On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:43:04 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2017-12-18 3:52 PM, Bruce wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:39:40 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
>
>> Yes it's collective, dingleberry. Just like people used to
>> collectively think that slavery was ok. Now we know it was wrong.
>
>For some reason, we are supposed to apologize for it. We had nothing to
>do with it. We did not own or trade slaves. Slavery was never much of an
>institution here. As soon as it became an issue the government of the
>time acted to get rid of it. I live in a country that is 150 years old,
>and slavery had been abolished long before it became an independent
>country. Yet, I still hear people talking about the effects of 500
>years of slavery. It was an institution in another country by people
>more than 150 years ago. Apologies from people today for the actions of
>other people 6 generations ago aren't anywhere near the apology of the
>people who committed those wrongs.

Not that this has anything to do with what I said, but I agree with
you.