No, we can't stop playing that "card."
Yes we get that feeling! And more than a few of us can't appreciate why is continues.
Slavery ended 150 years ago. Most of the slaves were were held by a very few people, 393,975 of a population of 27 million. I would also point out that almost none of these people originated slavery or enslaved anyone. They purchase slaves that were already enslaved or the children of slaves expanded their holdings. Most all people enslaved (white and Black were enslaved by Africans or Arab (Muslim) slave traders, then sold to slave traders. Probably more Europeans were enslaved than African Blacks but they were
kept in the Caliphate where as the Blacks were often sold to buyers in the Americas. The first official slave holder in the what was to become to US, was an African in 1621 Virginia.
One of the largest slave holders was a Black woman in New Orleans (memory of history hopefully correct here).
Now, most of the 280 million white people in this country did not descend from the handful of slave holders. It is damn hard for many of us to accept responsibility for the slavery of Black people or to accept any inherited guilt that it occurred. This seems to be what some black people want as well as bleeding heart liberals, while they appear to be completely uninformed that white people were also enslaved by the same culture that enslave the ancestors of the Black Americans. The big difference between the Whites that were enslaved and the Blacks was, the Blacks were enslave by Black rulers and sold to Muslim slave traders, whether by culling the tribe or capturing a rival tribe. The Muslim slave trader, like the Barbary Pirates that Jefferson went to war with, directly enslaved most of the white slaves, the decedents of are still in places like Iraq, Syria, and other parts of the middle east.
We do try to get past this history, but it is difficult, it never rest long before some asshole comes along and whines about half the story. Just yesterday, I wondered, how many people in this forum actually has hired a black person, or promoted one to a management position? I have done both, but don't read me wrong, I did not do it out of empathy or guilt. I did these acts out of pure self interest, I thought I was making the move that would help me the most at the time. How many here have walked that walk? If you did it to help your image with Diversity goals, you might be a fool.
