My friends who are black are doing very well these days. I’ve noticed however that almost every black to some degree (some more than other) are holding onto the resentment that in generations past their ancestors where held in slavery. They don’t seem to recognize that slavery was worldwide, and the United States (Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party) made a tremendous sacrifice to end slavery.
Why can’t our fellow black Americans of today get over this? Rather than feel victimized by the U.S., shouldn’t they be grateful? Not that my generation can take any credit, but generations before corrected the terrible wrong. So why does this victim mentality still exists today?
Holding resentments has terrible consequences. I believe that if our nation’s black population would stop trying to change the past, and accept the present, there would be a great outpouring of grace, success, happiness, and wholeness come to our troubled black communities.
My boss, who is black and worth several million, still has this mentality as well. I don’t get it. He could buy everything I own three times over and still be loaded, and he still holds that resentment.
On one hand, I realize that slavery was a horrible evil that cannot be forgotten.
On the other hand, so were a lot of things that happened in Europe way before this continent was settled by the Pilgrims.
And furthermore, nobody alive today in the US has either been a slave, or owned one.