Senate Backs Apology for Slavery...I don't know about a collective response, but my individual response is I'm not apologizing for anything I didn't do, and I don't authorize anyone to apologize on my behalf.
"You wonder why we didn't do it 100 years ago," Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), lead sponsor of the resolution, said after the unanimous-consent vote. "It is important to have a collective response to a collective injustice." [More]
Besides, as far as I'm concerned, slavery is being expanded to include us all. I think our efforts are better spent exposing overseers like Harkin for the evil frauds that they are.