Many college students cannot understand the horrors of a segregated classroom because thankfully none of us were alive to bear witness to the atrocities of what the world used to be. Slowly but surely the US eradicated forms of racism and unequal treatment but US officials also do a fantastic job of making themselves look like tree stomps and this one definitely tops the list.

The House of Representatives is in the middle of passing a resolution apologizing to African Americans about the Jim Crow laws. Slavery was abolished over a hundred years ago and segregation was brought to a halt about forty years and the US wants to apologize now? Are you serious?

The US should have rethought hosing down innocent people who wanted to sit at restaurant tables and not have to give up their seat on a bus after a long day's work. But an apology only serves as written proof the US tried to rectify their mistakes 40 years later.

To this day there are still heinous hate crimes being committed on a daily basis like the Jena Six, who are still awaiting their trials. So not only does this resolution serve as US hypocrisy but it's also a waste of taxpaying dollars that could be used to actually resolve something. Go figure, a resolution that resolves.