carmine9 wrote:
she72uwhwwy wrote:
Considering that the norm throughout history has been slavery it is statistically probable that yes, my and everyone else had ancestors that were slaves. Maybe Roman, maybe Egyptian, maybe de facto slavery in feudalism.
The slavery in the US and colonies was wrong but so was all other slavery throughout history. The slavery in the US south was no worse than slavery in Roman times
So you see no difference in black history in America and white history?
How about the fact black people know their ancestors only a few generations ago were held in total bondage while you are just guessing some of your ancestors may have been thousands of years ago.
And, of course, you must believe systemic racism against blacks is totally gone in America today
I don't think there is much different in the average life of white and black people in recent history.
Slavery here ended 150+ years ago. It was terrible, I'm not saying it wasn't. Slavery should have never happened, not here, not in other countries over the past 5,000 years. But it did happen and whether it was 150 years ago or 1,000 years ago the vast majority of people living in 2021 have never known any of their enslaved ancestors.
There are some outliers of people that are very old that personally knew their ancestor that was a slave in 1865 but very few. I'm in my 50s and the oldest relative I personally talked to in my life was born in 1899. In the year 2021 what happened to your ancestors in the 19th century is irrelevant. I am not defined by what my ancestors did that many generations ago, no one's really is.