The irony is that the descendants are now living in a country of opportunity and wealth. Had their ancestors not been taken to America, no doubt many or most of the descendants would be living lives of hardship and suffering in Africa far worse than they experience in Amercia.

Why should the U.S. Senate apologise for slavery when the very people who bega.n it have not apologised? By that I mean both the Arabs and the Africans. It was the Arabs that began the SLAVE TRADE aided by African converts to Islam. Thus the Arab and the African muist first apologise before the Europeans and the Americans.

Mohammed Ali was the first Arab who was sent to Africa to capture Africans and enslave them, soon after the Muslim conquest of Aram (Syria & Lebanon). So let us not begoin apologising for something that was started by both Arabs and Africans. Remember slavery is big business in the Sudan even today, and the Sudanese make no apology for it, so why should the U.S. Senate?

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