Respectfully, untrue in the past.
“By 1830, there were 3,775 black (including mixed-race) slaveholders in the South who owned a total of 12,760 slaves; around 2 million in the south. [6] 80% of the black slaveholders were located in Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_slave_owners
Right you are...I was talking about the present.