You people are always bringing that up. Sigh okay, well here goes.
Slavery was a bad thing. I'll say it a semitone higher or lower if you want. It was a bad thing, and it unfortunately benefited a lot of people, unfortunately some of whom were unfortunately my ancestors, and made them unfortunately very rich and powerful and well-connected. It was a very unfortunate enriching process, which is all over and done with fortunately no connection to the world of 2019. What you have to remember is that back then everyone thought the same way, and African people were looked up on by everyone as like wooden dolls, or similar in consciousness to leafy plants. Everyone thought that way without exception, so you can't go imposing modern day virtue signalling on our unfortunate rich forebears.
Ta-Nehisi Coates make me shit myself