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lronitulstahp -> Man Apologizes for racist past (4/5/2009 7:59:23 AM)
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Not long ago, on these boards there was a thread about the KKK. i felt pretty sick after reading the thread. i got the impression that a few posters looked back on their family's Klan links with almost a sense of nostalgia, or tried to sugarcoat the reality.
i never expect people to apologize for the sins of their ancestors. But how many of us would be able to say honestly that beliefs we held on to for nearly 80 years were wrong? Going further, how many of us would be brave enough to apologize, not only to people we may have affected, but to people we ACTUALLY hurt....to turn our backs on a group of people that embraced our "mis-placed" ideologies, a community? Here's one man's story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090405/ap_on_re_us/one_man_s_apology
[quote] The former Ku Klux Klan supporter says he wants to atone for the cross burnings on Hollis Lake Road. He wants to apologize for hanging a black doll in a noose at the end of his drive, for flinging cantaloupes at black men walking down Main Street, for hurling a jack handle at the black kid jiggling the soda machine in his father's service station, for brutally beating a 21-year-old seminary student at the bus station in 1961.
In the final chapter of his life, Wilson is seeking forgiveness
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