Skelton-Cline ‘glad to hear’ a US President apologise for evils done to native indians
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Biden on Friday, October 25, 2024, formally apologised to Native Americans for what he described as “one of the most horrific chapters in American history,” government-funded boarding schools that abused indigenous children and forced them to assimilate over a 150-year period.
“Quite frankly, there is no excuse that this apology took 150 years to make,” Biden said in Laveen, Arizona, after calling for a moment of silence to “remember those lost and the generations living with that trauma.”
At least 18,000 children were taken from their families and forced to attend more than 400 boarding schools across 37 states or then-territories between 1819 and 1969.
‘This stuff doesn’t rest’- Skelton-Cline
“I was so glad to hear President Biden, the first time a United States President flew into Native American territory and apologised for the dastardly deeds that were done to the native Indians, who the Anglo-Saxons turned around and called them native Americans,” Skelton Cline stated on his show, Honestly Speaking on ZBVI 780 AM on October 29, 2024.
He said Biden went on to say that it was “an official apology that was long overdue, for the evil, for the wickedness, for the systemic and structural, and legal, according to their books, wickedness that was exacted against the natives of what we now know as America.
“Brothers and sisters, this stuff doesn’t rest, it doesn’t rest,” Mr Skelton-Cline emphasised.
Still no apology or reparations from UK for slavery
It was late October that the Government of the United Kingdom (UK) had said there would not be an apology over Britain's role in the transatlantic slave trade, when King Charles and Prime Minister Sir Keir R. Starmer visit the Commonwealth summit in Samoa, which took place from October 25-26, 2024.
Last year, the King spoke of his "greatest sorrow and regret" at the "wrongdoings" of the colonial era on a visit to Kenya, but stopped short of an apology, which would have depended on the agreement of ministers.
It means that the policy of not apologising continues from previous governments.
Opponents of an apology have pointed to Britain's prominent role in ending slavery, including legislation in 1807 to abolish the slave trade.
Jaspert & UK owe VI an apology?
It was in September 2020 that then Governor of the Virgin Islands Augustus J.U. Jaspert irked some descendants of slaves in the Virgin Islands when he unartfully said the Virgin Islands can expect no reparations for slavery from the United Kingdom and that the Territory should not necessarily get rid of names of landmarks named after slave owners and perpetrators of slavery and brutal acts against humanity.
Several commentators and members of the public openly condemned the insensitive remarks and demanded an apology; however, Mr Jaspert, who called a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into governance in the VI, never apologised.
The UK, through its Foreign and Commonwealth Office, had said the comments of Mr Jaspert reflected the position of the UK.
According to a report launched at The University of the West Indies, Mona in June 2023, England owes the descendants of the enslaved in 31 countries in the Caribbean, Central America and North America US$24 trillion.
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14 Responses to “Skelton-Cline ‘glad to hear’ a US President apologise for evils done to native indians”
Claude Skelton Cline
2027 or before
Your lack of common human decency is appalling!.