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• On the article Should Georgia Officially Acknowledge Slavery?

  

  Jaime

  6:11 pm on Monday, January 21, 2013

  I will own it.
  "Just own it...You don't believe that the Georgia Government should acknowledge and apologize for slavery, Period!"
  I don't think they should. ;/ in all honesty, I think our government should spend our heard earned money on helping our state become better. Helping the homeless, helping the jobless. This is water under the bridge. The problem with the people in the state is, they never learned how to forgive. It should already be forgiven. I'm sure your ancestors forgave as they were (or should have) if they didn't, then they weren't good christian forgiving people. That's fine, everyone is entitled to their own beliefs. If they WERE however god fearing christians, this should all be over with, because LOVE covers a multitude of sins. If they raised their families and ancestors to resent the people who owned slaves (white and black) then they sure weren't believers. (not that you said they were, I'm just saying that because I am).
  If you offend someone you should apologize, if you hurt someone you should apologize. I don't believe the state needs to apologize for something that we actually fought a war for. THANK GOD the south lost, or there would still be slaves. But they paid the price for freedom, just as most people throughout history have done. There always has to be a price. Freedom isn't free

• On the article Should Georgia Officially Acknowledge Slavery?

  

  Jaime

  6:03 pm on Monday, January 21, 2013

  That's true Julie. "Learn from the past to not relive it. But, we relive it every day. Those that won't let go, keep us in the past."
  As long as there is resentment for things that happened, we will NEVER NEVER NEVER get past the racism. Never. Sad to say. Hopefully the next generation wont have as much resentment. OR, better yet, will spend their time focusing on how to live a good, decent, wholesome life. Be kind to people. Pray for people. Give to people in need. Don't go out the door with bitterness in your heart. Go out the door and choose to love everyone for you never know what the person next to you is going through

• On the article Should Georgia Officially Acknowledge Slavery?

  

  Jaime

  6:00 pm on Monday, January 21, 2013

  My Great Great Great Grandparents were Cherokee Indians on the trail of tears. I have sympathy. I have sympathy for those africans who endured slavery. I have sympathy for all kinds of people. I just don't see how apologizing for someone elses sins will make ANYTHING better. We live in a generation where racism is still fresh.Mostly it seems the blacks harbor resentment towards the whites for what happened. Even now, if the great MLK hadn't done what he did it would be terrible still for blacks. I think our current generation is still entwined in that part of racism. Maybe in 300 years things will be different, but there is definitely a lot of resentment FROM blacks to whites. PERSONALLY, I have no idea why. I think all people are equal, unless they prove me wrong. I just don't get where an apology would do any good. In all honesty. Dont think it will have any effect on the way racism is still rampant here, especially in GA...or in the south. No difference at all. Blacks will still resent whites because they think they have had everything better. Not really the truth, but they use it as the truth, so they have a line of defense against the government. It's just the truth. I'm sure in 300 years, maybe this will all be over and people can quit holding something over people's head who had nothing to do with it.

• On the article Should Georgia Officially Acknowledge Slavery?

  

  Jaime

  5:49 pm on Monday, January 21, 2013

  Where would you live today had your ancestors not have been brought over here? It's just like any war, and the war our country fought/fights. We are lucky enough to have had generations before us pay the price for our freedom. If they hadn't done it...you wouldn't be in the great USA, you'd be back wherever they came from.

• On the article Should Georgia Officially Acknowledge Slavery?

  Jaime

  10:14 am on Monday, January 21, 2013

  That's crazy. Spend our tax money on this stuff. I for one am sad it happened. We would have a lot less people in this country if it didn't. You can't change what THEY did, all you can do is try to be a good person all by yourself. If our great great grandparents did something wrong...that was their bad. WHO exactly do we owe the apology to? The blacks who were brought over and are dead? Or their ancestors who are now citizens of the great USA?

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