Black representatives sitting in Congress were beaten by police officers for marching for their rights and to end the century of Jim Crow that emerged after slavery.
I'm confused how you always turn this into an exclusively "slavery" conversation. That's part of the root, but it's not the whole story. Not even close. If white America had atoned for their sins after slavery, then we'd be on a totally different course of history today. But they didn't. They were proud and in slavery's stead erected a social and economic order that was a different form of slavery that existed as a matter of law until 50 years ago.
When there are still people that, as young adults, experienced the horrors of the Civil Rights era and the face that white America showed them at the time, you cannot claim that there's just this "grudge" that they have that they need to get over. That's plainly wrong, and a self-serving attitude to take.
I'm not saying that you personally have done anything "bad" to a "black person". That's not for me to say, because I know very little about you. But we're still the effective inheritors of a society and government that in the recent past, extending into the distant past, committed horrible crimes against humanity, for which we've had to pay very, very little. We threw them a bill or two in the 60's, some token references, some lip-service, and have largely let the issue fester and remain neglected.
Statistically speaking, institutional racism is still alive and well in America. There is absolutely no denying that. Individual discretion permeates every level of authority, and it's often influenced by unseen bias and socialized fear and/or malice towards certain groups of people.
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