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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>Well said. Some of us study the ‘apologies that aren’t apologies.’ MJ<BR>
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On 5/25/11 2:10 PM, "Richard Zane Smith" <<a href="rzs@WILDBLUE.NET">rzs@WILDBLUE.NET</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>on a similar note:<BR>
Public apologies are big media events and becoming "the in thing"<BR>
Apologies ought to accompany a commitment to undo damage that's confessed to,<BR>
not simply a time for the abuser to get a hug and made to "feel better".<BR>
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as much as apologies are nice...many tack on disclaimers in fine print at the end<BR>
to make sure no one can legally hold them accountable to their admissions.<BR>
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a public apology puts Indigenous people ON THE SPOT.<BR>
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To <B>refuse</B> to accept a public apology makes indigenous people look "unforgiving" and mean,<BR>
and the "apologizers" as the ones turned away for seeking to right a wrong.<BR>
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to <B>accept </B>apology gives the abuser documentation of "a public forgiveness" <BR>
a freedom from guilt, a sigh of relief that they may be now free from prosecution.<BR>
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Either way,an apology without committment to work to heal or undo damage,<BR>
is merely an emotional "feel good event" for the party with dirty hands.<BR>
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ske:noh,<BR>
Richard Zane Smith<BR>
Wyandotte Oklahoma<BR>
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On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash <<a href="cashcash@email.arizona.edu">cashcash@email.arizona.edu</a>> wrote:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>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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Access full article below:<BR>
<a href="http://ncronline.org/news/native-peoples-ask-jesuits-help-preserve-language">http://ncronline.org/news/native-peoples-ask-jesuits-help-preserve-language</a><BR>
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Dr. MJ Hardman<BR>
Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology<BR>
Department of Linguistics<BR>
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida<BR>
Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Perú <BR>
website: <a href="http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/">http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/</a> <BR>
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