If the colonies and then the USA had never had the institution of slavery we would not have a large black minority derived ultimately from Africa.
The ancestors of African Americans were from a variety of places in Africa. Enslaved Africans had offspring with people they never would have met if they had never been taken from their native places. So anyone descended from someone who was a slave in the US would never have been born except for the misfortune suffered by his or her ancestors. Not to justify the wrongs done to their ancestors but it is time to be grateful for being alive—and being Americans.
And the same is true for many other nations and nationalities throughout history that enslaved his fellow man.
Point is, in order to move forward and disentangle current society from those that wish our demise with this nonsense, we must not let the race pimps divide US. We (the last several generations) had absolutely nothing to do with what transpired centuries ago just as other nations throughout the world that practiced slavery in the past. That’s not to say that other countries still don’t practice the enslavement of their fellow man as this is something that has occurred for eons.
We threw off enslaving our fellow man long ago yet it still exists though disguised in different forms such as debt, property taxes, etc. I’ve often wondered from time to time if those blacks that clamor racism the loudest ever thought what their fate would have been if their ancestors had not been fortunate enough to have made it to the US and instead ended up in say: the Middle East or worse. They should be down on their knees thanking the good Lord that their ancestors survived allowing their lineage to continue in the freest country on the planet.
United We Stand, Divided We Fall.