<div>on a similar note:</div>Public apologies are big media events and becoming "the in thing"<div>Apologies ought to accompany a commitment to undo damage that's confessed to,</div><div>not simply a time for the abuser to get a hug and made to "feel better".</div>
<div><br></div><div>as much as apologies are nice...many tack on disclaimers in fine print at the end</div><div>to make sure no one can legally hold them accountable to their admissions.</div><div><br></div><div>a public apology puts Indigenous people ON THE SPOT.</div>
<div><br></div><div>To <b>refuse</b> to accept a public apology makes indigenous people look "unforgiving" and mean,</div><div>and the "apologizers" as the ones turned away for seeking to right a wrong.</div>
<div>but</div><div>to <b>accept </b>apology gives the abuser documentation of "a public forgiveness" </div><div>a freedom from guilt, a sigh of relief that they may be now free from prosecution.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Either way,an apology without committment to work to heal or undo damage,</div><div>is merely an emotional "feel good event" for the party with dirty hands.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>ske:noh,</div>
<div>Richard Zane Smith</div><div>Wyandotte Oklahoma</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cashcash@email.arizona.edu">cashcash@email.arizona.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Native peoples ask Jesuits to help preserve language<br>
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May. 23, 2011<br>
By Michael Swan, Catholic News Service<br>
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TORONTO -- As Canada's Jesuits remembered their first steps on North<br>
American soil and the welcome they received from Mi'kmaq people 400<br>
years ago, the Mi'kmaq asked for a favor.<br>
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"Maybe it's time for the Mi'kmaq to ask for your help in preserving<br>
our language," Grand Keptin Antle Denny told three dozen Canadian<br>
Jesuits and about 100 guests who had gathered to mark the 1611 landing<br>
of two Jesuits at Port Royal in what is now Nova Scotia.<br>
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<a href="http://ncronline.org/news/native-peoples-ask-jesuits-help-preserve-language" target="_blank">http://ncronline.org/news/native-peoples-ask-jesuits-help-preserve-language</a><br>
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