Fully agree on the first part. Not a long time ago, I have read that there
were in the US black individuals who owned other black individuals. So that
even if some accept the idea of compensations after hundreds of years, I
wonder how can it be possible to find out who should pay whom under these
circumstances?

As for a stamp with "I'm sorry" on it, I think that the most representative
stamps for the idea of individual liberty are those that show the
implementation of the fundamental ideas that gradually brought liberty to
all citizens. I mean by this the stamps dedicated to the US Constitution,
for example Sc. No: 2412-14, 2355-59, 835, 2336-48, 798, 2360.

Victor Manta

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"Grandpa" jsdebooATcomcast.net wrote in message
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Dave wrote:

As a white person in the United States, I'm often made to feel
guilty
about slavery.

As another white person in the US, our response (stupid IMO) is to give
those we feel sorry for having done something against in the distant
past, some form of monetary renumeration and special treatment, be it
lower university tuition or affirmative action, which is nothing more
than reverse descrimination.

I only mention it because I find it interesting that some find (as I do)
that a simple but sincere "I'm sorry" is appropriate for those things
that occurred so long ago that you personally had no hand in and are not
responsible for.

So I wonder if there will be an "I'm Sorry" stamp one day?