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<rss xmlns:ps="http://trailfire.com" version="2.0"><channel><title>"Virginia is first state to apologize for slavery" by jakejake</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/jakejake/trails/28696</link><category>jakejake/trails</category><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>Independent Online Edition &amp;gt; Americas</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/jakejake/marks/62163</link><description><![CDATA[Virginia has become the first of the US states formally to apologise for slavery, expressing its &quot;profound regret&quot; for its role. It also apologised for exploiting Native Americans.]]></description><category>Virginia is first state to apologize for slavery</category><author>jakejake</author><pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:09:43 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:62163</guid></item><item><title>After 400 years, Virginia issues official apology for slavery | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/jakejake/marks/62165</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;The moral standards of liberty and equality have been transgressed during much of Virginia&#39;s and America&#39;s history,&quot; the resolution says. It calls the enslavement of millions of Africans and the exploitation of native Americans &quot;the most horrendous of all depredations of human rights and violations of our founding ideals in our nation&#39;s history&quot;.]]></description><category>Virginia is first state to apologize for slavery</category><author>jakejake</author><pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:10:16 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:62165</guid></item><item><title>MiamiHerald.com | 02/25/2007 | Virginia lawmakers express &amp;#039;profound regret&amp;#039; for slavery</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/jakejake/marks/62166</link><description><![CDATA[Sponsors of the resolution say they know of no other state that has apologized for slavery, although Missouri lawmakers are considering such a measure. The resolution does not carry the weight of law but sends an important symbolic message, supporters said.]]></description><category>Virginia is first state to apologize for slavery</category><author>jakejake</author><pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:11:04 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:62166</guid></item><item><title>Lawmaker Proposes Holiday Rather Than Apology for Slavery -- 01/29/2007</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/jakejake/marks/62167</link><description><![CDATA[Seventy-nine-year-old Republican Frank Hargrove drew criticism nationwide when he said that &quot;black citizens should just get over it,&quot; when speaking out against a bill that proposed an official apology from the Commonwealth of Virginia for its part in slavery.]]></description><category>Virginia is first state to apologize for slavery</category><author>jakejake</author><pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:12:42 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:62167</guid></item><item><title>Fury Over Delegate&amp;#039;s Remarks on Slavery - washingtonpost.com</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/jakejake/marks/62168</link><description><![CDATA[RICHMOND, Jan. 16 -- A veteran Virginia lawmaker from suburban Richmond ignited a hot exchange in the House of Delegates on Tuesday after criticizing a proposal for the state to issue an apology for slavery and likening it to requiring Jews to apologize for &quot;killing Christ.&quot;]]></description><category>Virginia is first state to apologize for slavery</category><author>jakejake</author><pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:13:15 -0800</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:62168</guid></item></channel></rss>
