"Vindicated. I am selfish, I am wrong. I am right, I swear I'm right..."

First let me say that we here at the Five Guys are about the furthest thing from racist that you can imagine. But we are also pretty far from being apologists. Earlier this week the U.S. Senate issued a formal apology for the injustices of slavery. Who this apology was directed at remains a mystery. Slavery was abolished 144 years ago so there is absolutely no one alive who was affected by it. This is not to diminish the struggles of the civil rights movement, the idiocy of Jim Crowe, or even the on going struggle for true racial equality. But what exactly was the purpose for this apology? Did our government just now realize that slavery was wrong? Have we known for years but stubbornly refused to apologize because we were afraid that admitting that allowing one human to own another human is inherently wrong would weaken us in the eyes of our more barbaric allies? The truth is this apology at best, means nothing and at worst is incredibly insulting. People that in some way feel vindicated by this gesture are morons. We all know slavery was more than wrong. It was a monstrosity. Without a doubt the biggest blight on an otherwise proud American history. With that said, in this day and age people are accountable for their own successes or failures, whether they want to admit it or not. Regardless of race, if you are a success you get to take credit for that. Conversely, if you are gutter trash, it is no one's fault but your own, including some racist landbaron who may have (but very likely didn't) own your great grandfather.