Europe will apologize for slavery and colonialism.
Well. My goodness.
I daresay it's just as well that the US walked out of the conference over Zionism; can you imagine the firestorm that the Shrub's administration would have faced if they walked out over this? And make no mistake, they WOULD have walked over this; with the difficulty the country is having over reparations, I can't imagine that they would have wanted to be anywhere near this resolution, and it would have looked extraordinarily hypocritical for them to have refused to sign on.
I do wonder what the apology does for people, though. (Though apologizing for colonialism, which was more recent, might actually mean more to some.)
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