by snarly | Apr 18, 2013 | Historical Apologies, Political Apologies
We’ve had a lot of crappy apologies on the site lately. Here’s an apology that’s very, very good…which is itself good because what it’s apologizing for is utterly horrific. You probably know about the Tuskegee Experiment. In 1932, 600...
by snarly | Mar 5, 2013 | Historical Apologies
On Saturday night, the chief of police in Montgomery, AL apologized publicly to civil rights leader John Lewis for the department’s failure to protect Lewis and other Freedom Riders from an angry white mob back in 1961. Today, Lewis is a Georgia Congressman....
by sumac | Feb 22, 2013 | Historical Apologies
The Magdalene asylums, or Magdalene Laundries, were institutions in Ireland and elsewhere, where women were committed and forced to work unpaid, on the theory that it would reform their foul sexy ways. They were often run by nuns. Originally for prostitutes, they were...
by sumac | Jan 11, 2013 | Historical Apologies
Abraham Lincoln wasn’t perfect, knew it, admitted it. Sometimes he went out of his way to apologize for his mistakes. Even when no one was pouting. On July 13, 1863, mid-Civil War, Lincoln sent this letter to General U.S. Grant: My dear General I do not remember...
by snarly | Dec 28, 2012 | Historical Apologies, Personal Apologies
A few years ago my husband Jonathan and I had a party. One of our guests, an acquaintance from the local playground (this is how you meet people when you’re a young parent in NYC), had a little too much to drink and wound up passed out on the floor, her...
by sumac | Nov 27, 2012 | Historical Apologies, Political Apologies, The Mechanics of Apology
Campbell Newman, the Premier of Queensland, Australia, has just apologized for a quarter-century of stolen babies. From the 1950s to the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of single women in Australia were forced to give up babies for adoption. They were bullied, misled,...
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