Pitiful Pointless Pandering by the Senate!

The U. S. Senate last week apologized for slavery. What pitiful pointless pandering!!! Slavery was horrible and criminal, saying it was an "injustice" is much too mild a description. However, the citizens of the U.S. today and the current Congress had nothing to do with slavery; neither practicing it or approving of it. There are no former slaves or slave-owners alive, nor the children of slaves or slave-owners and problably few, if any, grandchildren of slaves or slave-owners. How can Congress in 2009 apologize for what others did over 140 years ago? It's a stupid empty gesture and no-one in the Senate had the courage to say this was a waste of time.What's next, apologizing to the descendents of witches for burning them at the stake in Salem? I suppose there aren't enough votes among descendents of witches.