Perspective: This Black History Month has been all about the apology, if you can believe it
By Courtland Milloy Courtland Milloy Local columnist Email Bio Follow Columnist February 26 at 7:06 PM As Black History Month nears an end, I’ve been impressed by a cavalcade of apologies for “racial insensitivity” and outright racism. Hardly a day has passed without one.
“I extend my sincerest apology to our students and school community,” wrote David Stewart, the principal.On Monday, a white lawmaker from Harford County apologized to the leaders of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland for using a racial slur. Del. Mary Ann Lisanti , while talking to a white colleague at a bar in Annapolis earlier this month, allegedly referred to an area of Prince George’s County as a “n----- district.
Sincere? How can you repent if you don’t know what you did? How can you repent when you admit that you’ve used it before and are sure everyone else has, too?At the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, President Samuel Hoi released a campuswide memo last week acknowledging and apologizing for racial segregation in its admissions policy from 1895 to 1954.
Although he had just proclaimed the start of Black History Month, Northam would spend much of the time participating in black apology month activities. “When you’re in a state of shock like I was, we don’t always think as clearly as we should,” he said later. “I will tell you that later that night I had a chance to step back, take a deep breath, look at the picture and said, ‘This is not me in the picture.’ ”
Ferguson had the book under a glass case and opened to a page that read, “The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, societally, and physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their instruction as a race.”
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