University of Alabama Apologizes for Slavery at Campus in Years Before Civ

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAG6YCOATD.html

University of Alabama Apologizes for Slavery at Campus in Years Before Civil War

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - The University of Alabama apologized Tuesday to the descendants of slaves who were owned by faculty members or who worked on campus in the years before the Civil War.
The apology - approved overwhelmingly by the Faculty Senate - was the first at the university and possibly the first of its kind in the nation, officials said.

It was also the second move by the school in recent days to acknowledge the university's historical ties to slavery.

Last Thursday, university officials announced the school will erect a marker near the graves of two slaves on the campus and place others on buildings where slaves once worked and lived.

Al Brophy, a white law professor who authored the apology, documented years of bondage at the university, which was founded in 1831 and mostly destroyed by Union troops at the close of the Civil War before it was rebuilt.

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[leesa]

1. It's a start...

[Hand]

2. Took ya long enough...

You backward gang of yahoos.

:argh:

[Stuckinthebush]

3. Hang on dude...that's my alma mater you're talking about!

Yes, Alabama has its share of yahoos, but I contend that there are as many yahoos at the University of Mississippi, the University of Georgia, and most certainly Auburn University.

Don't even get me started about the yahoos at the University of Tennessee!

OK...flame away.

:D

[Hand]

4. Not to mention the Harvard Business School...

Alumni include Chimpy and Michael Huffington (renowned IQ 80 who ran for senator in Calif. a while back as a family values type, then came outta the closet when Arianna gave him the heave-ho).

An institution damn near as corrupt as Yale...

:smoke:

[QC]

5. Feeling particularly self-righteous this evening?

Here's something that might help bring you down to earth again:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?reportID=162576&storyID=3560833

[HjalmarPoelzig]

6. They use grad students for that now

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