“Southerners” did pick their own cotton, the rich plantation owners were not usually “Southern” born, just land barrons.
But your statement on slavery is correct. Slavery may be something the Karma Police never let us pay back completely.
When do other people get to pay the “karma police” for their episodes of slavery, as all cultures and peoples have at one point practiced it (including on whites, whether other whites or Muslims), and aome still do? Why only YT, the only ones who ever shed their own blood to put a stop to it? And have paid billions in “reparations” in one form or another ever since? Wven to countries like Haiti, where the whites (including children) were slaughtered? (They let some of the women live, as breeding fodder).
One good thing that the "don't let NW Europeans in here any more" immigration policy since 1965 has accomplished is that a lot of African nationals have come here. The ones in the suburbs, at least, are very motivated, hard-working and grateful to be in what they thought would be a free country. Around here they are from Kenya, Ghana, Cameroon, Eritrea, Nigeria, etc. Many have their own businesses or become educated in professions like engineering or accountancy. They discipline their children, attend church and keep up their property. The AA's hate them. The average African-borns prove that race is not a predictor of behavior.