I suggest you go back and actually look at history. 100 years is laughable, you clearly don't know.
So we've established how dumb you are saying "I DoN't CaRe WuT HaPpEnEd 100 YeArS AgO", lets take a real count.
- Slavery existed up till the end of the civil war. Taking that into account, that means roughly 200 years of slavery existed
- Following the emancipation proclamation, Jim Crow laws prevented equality until 1965. That's another 100 years.
- Following the equal rights act of the 60s, much of the south (my homeland) and its people resisted equal rights, integration, and more up in to the 80s/90s.
Minorities have been enslaved for 200 years, segregated and marginalized for another 100, then socially and economically marginalized (since racism/jim crow was illegal) again for another 20-30. That's roughly 320-330 years worth of shit.
If you think scars like that don't linger in a race/creed/religion, you really are clueless. I'm Irish American and I don't like British people because of what they did to my Great Great Great Grandfather/Family. I have a good friend of mine (black) in his 70s. He grew up in and around Jim Crow laws and minority marginalization in the south. He doesn't want a dime of anyone's money. But he does not make light of what happened to him and his family.
White America needs to stop making light of what happened. I think that is doing more damage than anything.
It’s a fork in the road
You either get over it, and move past it.
Or you hold a grudge forever, and allow it to have power over you, and hinder your potential.
Which would you like?
Because in the end, the only person affected is you.
My family immigrated here in the early 1900s from Austria. Never owned slaves, as we hailed from Chicago.
So why should i be held responsible? Wasn’t any of my doing....