These Aldermorons

As usual, the demand for racism far outstrips the supply, so these assholes have to make some up:

• Four alderpersons voted against a resolution offering Black Chicagoans an apology for America’s enslavement of their ancestors, producing a racially charged clash within the City Council and a final roll call that one supporter called “appalling.”

  Alds. Raymond Lopez (15th), Nick Sposato (38th), Anthony Napolitano (41st) and James Gardiner (45th) sparked outrage from some of their colleagues for refusing to endorse the resolution, which ultimately passed.

  The measure sponsored by 4th Ward Ald. Lamont Robinson issued a formal apology from the City Council “to the Black citizens of Chicago for the historical injustices of slavery, segregation, systemic racism and the policies that have perpetuated racial inequality.”

  It overwhelmingly passed 43-4, but not without fireworks at a marathon Council meeting Thursday.

Fireworks over what? Performative, generated outrage?

• no one alive today was ever a slave (with the tiny exception of those in assorted islamic shitholes);
• no one alive today ever owned a slave (again, with the previously noted exceptions);
• Illinois contributed mightily to the Union side in the Civil War to the cost of thousands of lives;
• Illinois was a destination point for the underground railroad, freeing thousands of slaves;

Can people feel bad about it? We guess, but at that point in history, our entire ancestry was busy in Crimea, the Second Schleswig War, the Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War before the survivors wised up, packed it in and headed west to the New World. They didn't own any slaves, participated in no slave-holding and escaped what was essentially a slavery of endless war.

Apologies like the one in the City Council inevitably lead to demands for compensation, which is a complete non-starter. Besides, isn't Chicago trying to fill a budget gap? Couple hundred millions dollars worth? Did the dumbass alder-idiots make any progress on that front?