Joe Biden was in Laveen Village, Arizona, on Friday to formally “apologize” for the “sin” of the U.S. Government-run boarding school system that separated children from their Native American parents, calling it a “blot on American history.”
Biden said it was a shame that it had taken this long to happen.
“I formally apologize as president of United States of America for what we did,” Biden said. “The Federal Indian boarding school policy — the pain is has caused will only be a significant mark of shame, a blot on our record history. For too long, this all happened with virtually no public attention, not written about in our history books, not taught in our schools.”
Biden had promised to visit for two years and is just getting around to it now.
Even the AP recognized what Biden’s visit was about now, shortly before the election — trying…
