How about something more useful?

The New Jersey legislature, having solved all of the state's major problems, is now getting around to feel-good problems like apologizing for slavery. I'm not sure exactly what they're apologizing for, considering the fact that most of the Northern states' roles in American slavery were at worst mild. However, there were many attempts to disarm black people, some of which continue on today, in order to deny blacks, especially black men, the means of fighting back against attackers. Therefore, I think the New Jersey legislature should do something useful for blacks, something to really put its money where its collective mouth is. Give every black resident of New Jersey who is at least 21-25 years old, and who has no felony record, a handgun, box of ammunition and training lessons on the state's dime.

After all, what better litmus test to prove that they really aren't racist and are repentant for their fathers' and mothers' sins, than by arming potentially hundreds of thousands of black people, and training them to use their new weapons efficiently?