The talk in Washington about apologizing for slavery is political hyperbole at it's worst.

The Civil War ended over 130 years ago - that's well over a century. There are no persons alive today that personally experienced slavery. There are no significant numbers of black persons alive today who's parents experienced slavery. There is no white person alive today that ever owned a slave and only a minuscule percentage of whites owned slaves during the days of slavery.

There is therefore no one alive to do the apologizing and no one alive to apologize to.

Slavery is an unfortunate blemish on the history of mankind - both black and white races. During the Ira of slavery black natives of Africa captured and sold other black natives into slavery. At times past, whites were also pressed into slavery. And where would today's black US citizens be living and under what conditions, if their grand parents and great grand parents had not been brought to the US as slaves?

Would the present black citizens of the US be better off If their ancestors had not been brought over as slaves? Not likely. Just look at most of Africa and their typical standard of living. To days blacks should be thankful their ancestors were brought here from Africa. Their ancestors suffered but today's blacks gained from their ancestors suffering.

And who freed the slaves in the US? A black uprising? No, the white citizens of the US in the War Between The States with a loss of over 600,000 lives - greater than the losses in two World Wars.

It's time to get on with dealing with today's problems and opportunities instead of dwelling on a past that non of us created or participated in.