This is akin to telling the president you'll give him all the funding he wants, but attaching a statement that says how nice it would be if he would consider maybe changing his policy,...but don't hurt us!! In other words what I'm saying is who cares about an apology.

It does absolutely nothing to advance the cause of african americans in this country.

In fact by virtue of that alone the GOP should be overwhelmingly in favor of passing the resolution--its win-win for them--they can shine up their image while doing what they do best. Nothing.

As for reparations, they don't work either. Its no surprise to me that Ken is in favor of them. They are incredibly hard to determine the value of, and again they don't address any of the challenges african-americans face, and they shortchange the generations to come who won't see the money but will still suffer from inequality and oppression. Reparations would amount to a convenient way to dispose of the past. So I'm not in favor of those either (unless some one can convince me of a scheme that works).