I have ancestors who were slaves and my father’s family were Cherokee until a couple of generations ago. Then they intermarriage with whites. I think it’s time to forget the bad things in the past, forgive, move on.....or stay mired in the past and be miserable! People are so invested in being depressed aboutvthings that do not matter at all anymore!
Just about everyone has slave ancestors if you go back far enough.
One of the fundamental tragedies of the United States as a nation is that we were unable to address the issue of slavery and it's repercussions in terms of the denial of civil rights to black Americans without distorting and now ultimately abandoning the Constitution and the regime of liberty it embodied.
It's a terrible irony that black Americans became fully enfranchised only when the meaning of citizenship was about to be so completely debased as to become a burden rather than an advantage, just as all the free inhabitants of the Roman Empire became citizens only when the Empire became a thoroughgoing despotism and needed more taxable heads.
They think they've made progress when they have only been repaid in cheapened coin.