Like all good con men, there must be a "mis-direction" in order to keep the "mark" from finding the "money card". Slavery is the universal misdirection. No one alive today was ever a slave, yet according to the civil rights organizations it happened only yesterday. Keep the people agitated and angry, don't let them discover truth for themselves, blame everyone else that's not your color for your own shortcomings.........
It's a misdirection in two ways. Not only is no one alive today a former slave, no one alive today in this country was ever a slave owner in the days of this country's slave era. In fact, many, if not most, of the ancestors of Caucasians came here long after the slave era was past. My grandparents came over in the 1890s and early 1900s. Yet these race baiters are going to wave the bloody shirt of slavery in my face?