So. Probably all of us have “a heritage of slavery and dependency” somewhere in our extended backgrounds. So what? Hey...Haitians, get off your asses and get to work fixing your country, your families, your system and so forth. No one is going to do it for you, you laggards.
Actually, most white Americans come from cultures with long traditions of independence and freedom, and their ancestors came to the USA because new political developments or disasters threatened those freedoms.