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Webb urged to seek apology for slavery
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| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Mar 04, 2007 09:47pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Richmond Times-Dispatch |
| News Date | Monday, March 5, 2007 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A small-town Virginia newspaper editor is urging Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., to seek a congressional apology for slavery.
Webb's spokesman had no reaction yesterday to the proposal by Ken Woodley, editor of the Farmville Herald, other than to list several civil-rights related bills that the lawmaker has co-sponsored. Woodley drew attention to the apology idea last year when he made a similar request of then-Sen. George Allen, a Republican .
"I think it is a powerful idea and I want it to be considered seriously," Allen said during a civil-rights "reconciliation pilgrimage" then to Prince Edward County. Later in the year, Allen said he hadn't seen much support for the idea; he did not introduce such a resolution.
In the edition of the Farmville Herald dated today, Woodley called on Webb -- who defeated Allen in November -- and the Virginia congressional delegation to follow in the footsteps of the Virginia legislature.
Last month, both chambers of the General Assembly agreed to express profound regret for the state's role in slavery.
Woodley called, in his editorial, for Virginia to "light the way" in the year of the 400th anniversary of Jamestown's founding.
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