Slavery and Genocide
Whites don't have inherent privilege, wealthy people have privilege. Oprah Winfrey has privilege because of her wealth, she isn't oppressed because she's black. Slavery has always been in the interest of those with wealth. From the 1600's onward, slavery was a corporate venture. The elite trade in human labor to build capital via labor. Slavery was a practiced in every human society since time immemorial. Many of those societies could grant freedom to a slave. America's history isn't worse than any other nation. Less than 6% of Americans owned slaves. People overlook that Africans sold their own people into slavery. Romans captured Celtic and Gauls, Islam trafficked slaves as well as Jewish people. Slavery as an institution in the U.S. was based on labour for the top 6% of wealthy Americans. Most Americans could not afford slaves and could not compete with wealthy land owners who could. Even the founding of the US was a corporate interest of wealthy people who g