Based upon the two articles below, the percentage of people in this country whose ancestors might have been involved in slavery is low, something to the tune of 15% or less just based on population levels in slave verses non slave states and the number of immigrants that arrived from 1865-1914. This doesn't take into account that the majority of people in slave states didn't own slaves, nor does it account for when the descendants of slave owners had children with the descendants of non slave owners. The bottom line is, however, that the vast majority of white blood in this country either had nothing to do with slavery or worked to end it. Even more obviously, and totally unrelated to the numbers, is that people can't be assigned a collective guilt based upon the actions of a few people in the distant past. If we did, the revenge killings would never stop until all animal life was extinct on this planet.
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Yes but!
"White people" still had it easier than black people. Now, one would have to define "have it easier than" and good luck making an objective comparison between working in cotton fields and being sent to dig coal.
One would also need to define "white people". Obviously it is something based on the skin color, but "Asians" are also considered as "white people", "Hispanics" are considered as "white people", some black people are even considered "white people". Either because their skin isn't "dark enough" or because their sociol-economics status "does not fit".
Last point is rather amusing by the way, considering one of the founder of BLM resigned some time after it was made public she somehow managed to buy several US$ mil worth of real-estate properties.
Anyway, it all relies on "collective guilt" and "ancestral guilt". One is guilty of his ancestors' crimes, wether or not his ancestors did, indeed, committed crimes or not; guilty of his country's crimes; and guilty of the crimes committed by those who share the same skin color or system of belief (Christians for instance).
Not only is it pushed by minorities, but also by those targeted by these accusations. A lot of "white people" feel retrospectively and emotionally guilty.
I remember recently coming across a school meeting where CRT was being discussed (I'll try to find it back) in which one of the attendant made an argument in defense of CRT by drawing a parallel with Germany's denazification, and how kids had been taught over and over again how "they" caused the Holocaust. Which I thought was inaccurate, but Muck or any German member can correct me on that point, since West Germany and East Germany had two different approaches regarding the subject:
-West: this happened, but you are not responsible for what happened. You are not the ones who did it.
-East: this happened, you caused it, your country caused it, your parents and grand parents caused it.
