The Senate Apologizes for Lynchings(Yawn)

Well to further ease their consciences for the past mistakes of others, the Senate has apologized for all past lynchings due to their failure to pass laws banning them. Incredible. It is remarkable how the current U.S. government has been made effectively liable for the acts of men long past dead. Apparently, all it takes is for someone to write a book that makes a few Senators feel guilty for the sins of others and you get an apology. See "Senate Apologizes for Not Passing Anti-Lynching Laws, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159348,00.html."

I think it is too little too late and the apology of non-participants diminishes the horror of what happened to thousands of victims, it is too easy. Maybe the Senate should have gotten Sen. Robert Byrd, D-WVa, to apologize, since he was there when all of this was happening and was part of the segregationist/racist machinery that was behind many of these acts....Geez, how can any Black American be a Democrat when they have yet to apologize for their racist acts since the Civil War?