The Effect of An Apology

What effect would an apology have on this situation?  Absolutely nothing.  The time has come and gone and the Civil War and loss of more lives than in Vietnam, should have shone the world that we, as the United States, are sorry for our institution of slavery.  If the United States apologized for slavery, would the Chinese and the Japanese have to apologize to each other?  Would the ancestors of the Jewish Community want an apology from Egypt?  Would we have to apologize to Africa as well?  The idea of an apology only makes the matter deeper and much more unnecessary in this time period.  In addition, the truly sad and disgusting part about the idea of an apology for slavery, made by the radical lefts such as Jesse and Al, is the fact that they don't even care about the apology.  In fact, their agenda is not to push for reprimands and an apology; but to force this topic and issue so much for the purpose of being able to play the race card once again and show the world how bad "whitey" was and continues to be.