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The historically accurate view of what happened is this: Black Africans were enslaved by other black Africans and sold at slave markets to western slavers. America inherited this slave system from the British Empire, and once it was independent, ended the slave trade and almost all slavery in the northern states within twenty years of its birth. America then risked its survival as a nation and sacrificed 350,000 mostly white Union lives, to end slavery in the south as well. In other words, as far as blacks are concerned, America’s true legacy is not slavery, but freedom.

And just as this history has been revised, the current state of relations between the races isn't at all what the media and culture-smog would have you believe.

Pay attention to what you see.

On any given day, you can go to lunch and see mixed-race diners-work colleagues getting along just fine. The occasional black-white friend table for two. Look at the wedding announcements, we are intermarrying at an increased pace. High schools nearly completely melded, certainly not polarized by race. So many BFF's-opposite races. Heck, check the police blotter, we're even committing crimes together.

To read the tabloids or watch TV shows, one would believe the opposite. Best indication of the world we actually live in? Charleston, SC and the astounding aftermath of the races coming together. It's only astounding because of what we've been led to believe is the reality. The strife that does exist between the races in this country is largely induced and agitated by the left, which has a political stake in keeping the races divided. The largest impediment to racial harmony isn't white or black animosity, it's white guilt and black victimhood, both induced by revised history, and the left's political expediencies. When left alone, blacks and whites are getting along.

Of course there are haters, long way to go here, but in a few decades nearly everyone will have interracial families.

I'm not saying race relations are good, but absent the constant intentional division, from the White House to the movie screen, things are not nearly as bad as we are led to believe.