All Americans are collectively responsible for slavery
Media narrative: "We are collectively, as a nation, responsible for Slavery and the Civil War." Verdict: Bullshit. About 15 million immigrants came to the U.S. from 1851-1900. If just 2/3 of that group had just one child every 5-10 years, for a period 120 years (to the present), how many of their descendants have absolutely no fucking responsibility because their families didn't live here? That number is zero. That's right. The majority of people living today have nothing to do with a "collective national guilt." There is nothing to "own up to" or be apologetic for. Most Americans are conned into this narrative to hide who was actually involved. We can say that 100% of black Americans, are descendants of slaves. However, even if we account for the fact that less than 6% of Americans owned slaves before 1870, these people are long since dead. Who owned slaves? People running businesses that could afford them. Most existing wealth in this country...