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They should be glad that their ancestors brought them here. Crossing the Atlantic back then was the way to the gravy jobs. Quichyerbichin, or we’ll “buyback” the 19th Amendment after this failed experiment runs its course.
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I would hope you are saying that in jest. I don’t really comprehend how you could say it otherwise unless you really don’t understand history. One can be thankful that they are here however also sorrowful for what their ancestors went through. I don’t think any of our ancestors did say that they endured what the black slaves did in this country. That said it’s not really my job to convince people it is left up to them to do accurate reading. White liberals piss me off just like black liberals do. The truth does not need to be defended truth just is. Saying that this is where the gravy jobs were yes that is true. However riding chained up in the bottom of a slave ship was a little bit different than coming over on another ship. One was by choice and the other was not. I’m really fairly dumbstruck that I actually feel compelled to respond to this post.

Have you been to Africa

I have quite a bit

War and horrors and poverty beyond your imagination and especially in west Africa where nearly all North American slaves came from

So they are indeed lucky their ancestors was brought over in bondage because they are now here

I have yet to see one return since it’s so bad here

This historical emphasis on white misdeeds is political power being forced on folks nothing more

If blacks are offended then don’t go on the tour

I watched Southern Charm New Orleans last season and this second one

The cast is 90% New Orleans black which means somewhat mixed some more than others

Justin is a tort lawyer and very funny

His daddy is a famous judge and lawyer and his mom too I think

Light skinned New Orleans aristocrats

On the show they did a weekend tour B and B at an old plantation up river on the West Bank I think

Anyhow it was eerie and oaks and moss and moonlight and ghosts

One house slave girl had in a fit poisoned the plantation owners children

The other slaves helped catch her and lynched her in a fit of anger given these were known as decent slave owning family

Her ghost is of course said to roam the property now

Well justin is deathly afraid of ghosts even more than snakes...
Per his own admission

South Louisiana has plenty of both

He flees from the seance and while sitting totally spooked in his room he muses about why he a descendent of slaves is vacationing at a plantation house with slave cabins and lynchings And ghosts
He does it in a comical way

The gorgeous slinky mulatto lady quickly points out for him to go look in the mirror and careful for any ghosts might jump out but you should notice you are as much a part of the slave masters blood as you are the slave

It’s a classic moment and he’s like dayum you’re right....but I still hate ghosts...lol

I don’t think any of our ancestors did say that they endured what the black slaves did in this country.

The white indentured from Ireland had a terrible time, and the women in particular. But the most egregious abuse of enslaved Irish people, aside from Australian penal colonies, was the sugar slaves of the West Indes, who dropped dead like flies from the climate and sunstroke —Ireland being farther north than much of Canada in terms of sun exposure—but not before being interbred with African slaves to make "a better class of slaves."

Irish Sugar Slaves of Barbados

Shamrock & Sugar The History of the Irish and the African in Caribbean

"One can be thankful that they are here"

I'll omit your petty insults and extraneous errors while enlightening you a little. One should be thankful for not being a slave today in the equatorial region of Africa (Congo) or anywhere else in the world (communist countries and all).

"however also sorrowful for what their ancestors went through."

It must have been hard for their ancestors to sell them to Portuguese, British, French, Spanish and Dutch merchants.

Atlantic slave trade
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade
"The major Atlantic slave trading nations, ordered by trade volume, were: the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Spanish, and the Dutch Empires. Several had established outposts on the African coast where they purchased slaves from local African leaders.[4]"

"I don’t think any of our ancestors did say that they endured what the black slaves did in this country."

That's beside the point without the proper addition of quantifiers. Many of them endured far worse by self-discipline and perseverance than what many of the slaves endured.

"Saying that this is where the gravy jobs were yes that is true. However riding chained up in the bottom of a slave ship was a little bit different than coming over on another ship. One was by choice and the other was not."

African slavery
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade#African_slavery
"Slavery was prevalent in many parts of Africa[16] for many centuries before the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade."

They can thank white men for the choices that they have now, just as all Americans can. George Washington, by his own choice against the opinions of many others, did more to end the old paradigm of slavery than anyone else. There were early American white men who not only freed their slaves but gave them land for jobs well done. Some slaves were treated better than most of today's employees.

And you all know good and well the color of the hundreds of thousands of the majority of men who lived hard, fought and died to end the foreign paradigm of slavery as it was. It's getting old, seeing the libels against those who gave the most to give this great nation a good beginning.

I know of children who were taught next to nothing in public schools about George Washington or Thomas Jefferson, but they were stuffed with myths about Sacagawea and other tangential figures.