I know it's an election year so people are heated but I just grow tired of this white/black thing. I know it sounds corny but we are all Americans. Our history is interwoven and so is our future.
Black people have been historically dealt brutal injustices in this country by white people....but not all white people. Hundreds of thousands of white men died to end slavery, countless white people assisted runaway slaves along the underground railroad, whites have stood side by side with blacks trying to undue the injustices of slavery since this country was founded....thats America too.
Trying to keep this short...you cant look at the United States in a vacuum. You have to take into account the history of mankind and what the world was like in 1776. The world was brutal then. Nobodies hands were clean. Slavery was the norm of the world since the beginning of time. Every culture and every race held slaves. Slavery was rampant in Africa. Each tribe would kill and murder each other, take slaves, sell slaves. Hell, in the Americas slavery was rampant before a white man ever stepped foot on the continent. Indian tribes would constantly brutally kill each other and take slaves.
My point, at the time of Americas founding slavery/racism was practiced all around the world. It wasn't invented here. That's why the founding principles of this country are important. The founders didnt practice what they preached but they laid the foundation to change the world. It had to start somewhere. Since that time men and women, white and black have been fighting to make men equal based on those principles which were literally unheard of at the time. It was a radical thought. We are still working.