I'm sorry, but it makes my blood boil when black people blame white Americans for slavery. This is just one of the many double standards that black people love to ignore. For this reason, racial equality is a joke, and will never happen, because black people say "treat us equally", yet expect special treatment at the same time.
Even if we ignore the fact that this happened hundreds of years ago, and nobody alive today has anything to do with slavery, they're so quick to forget that their ancestors are just as responsible.
White people didn't just head over to Africa, force the poor little Africans onto ships, and subject them to a life of slavery. While that might have occurred, the more common thing was Africans selling other Africans into slavery.
That's preposterous, you say? Well, what about the fact that slavery had existed in Africa LONG before the Europeans (the "evil white people") came over there? In fact, I remember reading a statistic that at one point, 1/3 of the African population was enslaved.
Europeans tried using Native American slaves, but they ended up dying from disease or escaping (since they were being enslaved on their native lands, which they knew the layout of), so they started buying African slaves, as they were being sold for cheap. Once again, these slaves were captured by Africans, from rival tribes, and sold to the Europeans. They sold their own people into slavery, for cheap.
Let's fast forward to the future now. How many plantations full of black slaves do you see nowadays? I'm guessing not a lot of them. Now what about Africa? Definitely not a continent that's plagued by war and disease, with genocides and ethnic cleansing being a common occurrence? Not to mention, slavery still existing? Definitely not. Damn, those white people are so evil.
Keep in mind one thing.. I have nothing against black people (and other minorities, I'm Hispanic myself). What I do despise are people who play the race card at any opportunity they get. I was reading an article on ESPN about how a [black] football player was driving 40 MPH over the speed limit (If I recall correctly, he was going close to 100). A police officer tried to pull him over, and he tried to elude the cops. Eventually, the police caught up to him, and found that not only was he way over the BAC limit, but his car smelled like weed, and he had quite a large amount of marijuana on him. I browsed the reader posted comments on the article, and was shocked to see comments such as "The cops pulled him over because they're racist" or "If he was white, he wouldn't have been pulled over". Really? The fact that he was going double the speed limit, tried to evade arrest, was drunk as hell, and had a ton of weed on him isn't a problem at all?
Another example is at my last job. One of my co-workers was an AWFUL employee. He would routinely show up late to work, sometimes showed up high, never wanted to do any work, was rude to customers, and usually left before his shift was over, without finishing what he needed to do, forcing other people to pick up his slack. After a few months of doing this, being warned countless times, being written up continuously, and not changing his work ethic, he was fired. After being fired, he had the audacity to call everyone there racist, and tried suing the place for discrimination. While I understand this is one example, and anecdotes mean nothing, how are we supposed to treat black people equally, when we run the chance of this happening? In fact, chances are .. if he was white, he would have been fired much sooner. I have a feeling my boss kept him there, as he didn't want to seem like he was racist.
tl;dr - Africans are the ones mainly responsible for slavery, not Americans/Europeans. Also, racial equality is a joke and will never happen, until ALL black people are okay with being treated the same as white people, with no double standards. Until then,
