“Can’t watch the video now but I’m black and I only see it as a good consequence of a great evil. However glad I am at being an American through in no way decreases the evil of slavery.
I met a 15yo kid whos parents met as a result of 9/11. She wouldn’t be here without it but it doesn’t excuse the evil that happened that day.”
One of my uncles worked for the Dept. of Agriculture until his recent retirement. One of his black co-workers, with whom he was very friendly, once remarked (after seeing a bunch of people get off of the plane from Nigeria, with all kinds of disgusting food that had to be seized and destroyed), “I’ll kill you if you say anything to anyone else here, but after looking at these people and what they eat, I’m glad that my ancestors were slaves.”
I, myself, am Jewish. I recognize that without the Holocaust having occurred, there would not have been an Israel. There are also lots of children and grandchildren of survivors who met during or after the war, and they would never have existed but for what their parents or grandparents went through.
Again, there is no excuse for evil - none, EVER - but some good does usually come from it.
As Joseph famously said to his 9 brethren: “But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.” Gen 50:20