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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Should the next Democratic president apologize to Latin America for all past US intervention? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)25. I totally agree with everything you've said there.
Acknowledgement as a term wasn't meant to be passive or minimalist.
And the fence is an abomination, but we need to go beyond that:
We need to say to the other nations of the Americas that we admit we never had any right to stop them or try to stop them running their affairs the way they wished to, that we will never do that again, and then move towards some form of reparations, as we should also do with the Native American nations and the descendants of slaves.
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Should the next Democratic president apologize to Latin America for all past US intervention? [View all]
Ken Burch
Jun 2016
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That's up to them(some have, I think). Not comparable to what I was talking about at all.
Ken Burch
Jun 2016
#2
by "leave alone", I don't mean have nothing at all to do with those countries.
Ken Burch
Jun 2016
#10
I agree totally on the need to acknowledge all of the miseries inflicted on Native Americans
Ken Burch
Jun 2016
#7
Scotaloo wasn't the poster making fatuous remarks about Native Americans needing to apologize. n/t.
Ken Burch
Jun 2016
#26
I suppose that there is a sense in which everyone should apologize to everyone else for everything,
Tal Vez
Jun 2016
#14
Actually, I look forward to the day when we might be able to unify our hemisphere,
Tal Vez
Jun 2016
#29
If, by Americans, you mean the peoples of this hemisphere, an apology will do a lot.
Ken Burch
Jun 2016
#30
But the point is that it was stated that this book was REQUIRED reading for all students...
George II
Jun 2016
#66
Required reading for all students in Latin American countries without a military junta in power.
Ken Burch
Jun 2016
#68
It doesn't discredit the statement if the book was only taken off the reading list
Ken Burch
Jun 2016
#71
I'm inclined to say yes, but just to stop doing it already would be enough. n/t
Old Union Guy
Jun 2016
#36
I think some people here are voting no because they think this is an attack on HRC.
Ken Burch
Jun 2016
#41
Why, the US never apologizes for any wrong doing in any part of the world!
akbacchus_BC
Jun 2016
#78