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Sat 06 Jun 2009US faces up to its racist past but is not willing to pay for it
AMERICAN LETTER:Senate apologises to African-Americans on behalf of the people of the United States
DEMOCRATS AND Republicans in Congress agree on little these days and most of President Barack Obama's policy initiatives have been greeted on strictly partisan lines. However, this week the Senate voted unanimously to apologise to African-Americans for centuries of slavery and the decades of segregation that followed its abolition.
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