Guess What Charleston, SC Just “Formally Apologized” For!

Please raise your hand if you personally engaged in the institution of American transatlantic slavery.

Anyone? No one?

Ok then.

You should probably apologize anyway. (If you’re white.)

I mean… Charleston, SC did.
According to this:

The city of Charleston in South Carolina passed a resolution on Tuesday evening formally apologizing for the role it had during the slave trade.

Important stuff. VERY important use of everyone’s time.

The city council approved the symbolic gesture by a 7-5 margin after an hour of public comments and nearly two hours of heated debates, reports The State. It called for “recognizing, denouncing, and apologizing on behalf of the City of Charleston for the City’s role in regulating, supporting and fostering slavery and the resulting atrocities inflicted by the institution of slavery.”

Following the vote, multiple speeches were given to a crowd of bystanders, centering on the city’s involvement in the “evil institution” of slavery, as well as slaves’ involvement in building historic Charleston, which includes City Hall.

Wow.

We should probably tear down City Hall.

Is that what I’m hearing? I think that’s what I’m hearing. Let’s burn the mofo.

Charleston was a key port of entry for nearly half of the slaves who were shipped from Africa, according to NPR.

“This is the modern city council which feels the need to make an apology for the institution of slavery in the city of Charleston,” William Dudley Gregorie, a Charleston councilman, told ABC News.

Got it.

Hope this helps. Maybe now we can move on seeing as no one alive today had anything to do with it?

Spoiler alert: NOPE. NEVER MOVE ON!