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It has nothing to do with being apologists. It has to do with not being ignorant turds. If you're not behaving that way, then who exactly is asking you to apologize? I'm 41 years old, have lived in the south all my life and never once have I been asked to apologize for America's racist past.

What if the party were one in which people dressed up like "Injuns" and danced around with feathers and tomahawks making fun of Native Americans? Or how 'bout portraying them as alcoholics who live in trailers? That's funny, ain't it? Whoo boy, what fun! How about a party making fun of gays and lesbians? I have a funny suspicion that those parties would give people a little more pause. Why is that?

For smartass white kids in college to have a party mocking any minority group is just plain childish and stupendously ignorant and an open invitation for whatever grief any offended group wants to pile on them in my opinion. Don't want to be bothered by it? Then grow the hell up.

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