Signaling.
You forgot the word “signaling”. Virtue signaling is in no way virtuous and is/of itself a weakness.
Your context needs to pretend quite the malicious concept that somehow America invented transatlantic slavery which is both historically incorrect and it is morally preposterous.
In the American context slavery was inherited.
Yes generational sins and patterns are sadly a thing, not just in cultures, but in families.
A child is more likely to grow up alcoholic if their parent was, and their parent’s parent was etc…But the power of Jesus can break the cycle!