Reply #30: Slavery doesn't affect us?

[Connie_Corleone]

I tried to do my family tree. I only got so far as the late 1800s. I'll never know about the lives of the rest of my ancestors.

It must be nice to trace your family history all the way back to whatever country they came from.

I don't think of myself as a victim. But, if black people "get over" slavery, we have to "get over" the history of our ancestors and what they went through. It makes me aware of making my life useful so my ancestors didn't die in vain.