"....I swear, if the government, by some small miracle, starts handing out reparation checks I will quit paying taxes. I'll sell everything I own to my teenage son and they can come get me."
Because conservatives tend to have principles, and respect for order and the Constitution is dying among the rulers and the Courts' it is a GIVEN that YOU WILL run afoul of "the law"--sooner or later. Recall that a woman recently did JAIL TIME for something she said to her granddaughter. In the matter of this threads subject its almost stupidly easy to end up in jail; you only have to SAY THE WRONG THING in the wrong place.
But if one follows the fractured family trees of many of those black Super Bowl players we'll be watching Sunday, follows the wood down the branches to the roots of the trees' existence in the soil of this country, one will find slavery. Harshness of the day - how many are actually descended from slaves (how blacks for that matter)? and how many of these would have grown up multimillionaire stars in Africa?
How many whites can trace their roots back to slavery? Here, in England, the Germanic tribes, Rome, Greece, Egypt, Persia....guess how many of us have ancestors enslaved at some time in history?
Geez - it's what you do with your life now, not what happened to your great-great-great-great-great grandfather then.