Canadian Govt Apologizes To WW1 Black Unit

"The Canadian government plans to formally apologize to members of the No. 2 Construction Battalion — the country's first and only segregated military unit — for the treatment they endured during and following their service in the First World War.
Many Black men were rejected from enlisting during the First World War because of their skin colour, so Canada allowed them to form the No. 2 Construction Battalion in 1916. Nearly half of the battalion's 600 members came from Nova Scotia.
The announcement of the intent to apologize in a "meaningful and respectful way" happened at a virtual event on Sunday afternoon in collaboration with the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia in Cherry Brook, N.S..
"Our country is still struggling with the insidious effects of racism," Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said in his virtual address. "More than 100 years later, we can combat it by recognizing the failures of our past and working to correct them.""
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/federal-apology-segregated-military-unit-1.5967363?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&fbclid=IwAR2ThoHy_pt0lFQMjCKicDmoVdaeZYrCTqwGciMMYNfFH97rj-C6oh_Tvtk

 

105 years later..? Seems a little disingenuous after so long...how far back do we go and apologise for things that seemed "normal" at the time. Seems hollow when the men aren't there to receive the apology.

Personally, i'd be pleased to be rejected from fighting...Another time and place, their skin colour may have made them more likely to enlist and be accepted (Vietnam)

 

An element of bandwagon-jumping by faceless mandarins, I reckon.