Slavery

[Bjorn Against]

5. Slavery may have ended a long time ago, but the damage it does to our nation endures

I appreciate your post because it speaks to the horrors of slavery without blaming the wrong people as other recent threads on slavery have done. It is not about whose ancestors owned slaves and whose did not, it is about who continues the legacy of racial oppression and who tries to move us closer to racial equality.

There are a number of ancestors of slave owners who realize the harm that racism does to society and work towards racial equality, just as there are people whose families had nothing to do with slavery yet they are extreme racists today.

In order to combat racism we need to know our history and recognize the past yet still live in the present. We need to combat those who are perpetuating racism today regardless of their ancestry and we also need to stand with those who are working to end racism.