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はじめまして、stwmpxqmwtsさん

　 あの場に相応しい演説だと感じましたし、調べた限りではアフリカ諸国から謝罪が無かったと非難する記事は無かったです。どちらかと言えば、アフリカは元宗主国の謝罪を求めるでしょうね。但し、演説に謝罪の意味は無いようです。
　 まあ、第三国が口を挟む問題ではないですね。


ライスさん：
DR. RICE: And then, finally, of course, Africa is a part of America's history. You know, Europeans and Africans came to this country together -- Africans in chains. And slavery was, of course, America's birth defect. And we've been trying to deal with the consequences of it every since and to bring about reconciliation. The President on Goree Island is going to have a chance to talk about that experience, but also to look forward to the tremendous contributions of African Americans to this country.

So America is a country of immigrants, but, of course, our experience with Africa has this other piece that wasn't exactly an immigrant experience. And yet it is the motherland, of course, a source of cultural pride for a substantial part of America's population. And the President cares about that.

Thank you.

Q Why not an apology for slavery?

DR. RICE: Thank you very much.

Q Why not an apology for slavery, Dr. Rice? Why not?

DR. RICE: The President is going to talk about and acknowledge what has -- what slavery has meant to Africa and has meant to America. But there is plenty of blame to go around about slavery. He's going to look forward to the tremendous contributions that we've made, and he's going to look forward to how to help Africa finally realize its potential.

Thank you.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030703-14.html


パウエルさん：
KING: Some in the United States felt he should have apologized. Should he have?

POWELL: No, I don't think there was a necessity for the United States to apologize. The United States, when we came into being as a nation, slavery was there.

It took us a while to recognize that we could not live our Constitution truly unless we eliminated slavery, and hundreds of thousands of young men fought a civil war to end slavery and then it took us a long time to get rid of the vestiges of slavery and we're still working on it to this very day.

And so, the very fact that we have come this far and we're working so hard, that shows what we think about slavery. That shows I think what America has done to put this issue into the past and look to the future.

But, I don't know that it was necessary for the president of the United States to come here and apologize for the sins of those who were responsible for slavery so many hundreds of years ago.
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0307/10/lkl.00.html



それと、良ければこの部分だけでも訳していただけませんか？
We can fairly judge the past by the standards of President John Adams, who called slavery "an evil of callosal magnitude." We can discern eternal standards in the deeds of William Wilberforce and John Quincy Adams, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Abraham Lincoln. These men and women, black and white, burned with a zeal for freedom, and they left behind a different and better nation. Their moral vision caused Americans to examine our hearts, to correct our Constitution, and to teach our children the dignity and equality of every person of every race. By a plan known only to Providence, the stolen sons and daughters of Africa helped to awaken the conscience of America. The very people traded into slavery helped to set America free.