Wrong. This country was founded on Freedom not racial. Discrimiation has been in every country since man's greed for power and will continue because there is (always) some greedy bastard out there. Wars over land, gold, oil, diamonds or whatever a greedy person with enough of an army could take from another that was conquered has paid the price enslaving those that were conquered. As far as slavery goes all races, black, white, yellow have endured throughout time. It's just how things have been and to think that it will ever stop is not thinking clearly, still goes on today. Trying to sell it over and over makes it worst, which many do for money and power alone without (true) regret over any race. I've never owned a person(slave of any race) and don't know of anyone that has or ever will and to be put into position to keep on hearing about it time after time after time leaves a bad taste in many peoples mouth along with mine. So if it's equality (anyone) seeks, not gonna happen, nothing is ever equal.

A country can’t be founded on freedom when there was entire group of people enslaved based on race and race alone. Racism predates the country and is a building block of the nation. To try to paint it in any other light is disingenuous and leaves a bad taste in the mouths of 42 million African American people living in this nation. I really can’t understand how the “I never owned a slave” thing is still a talking point. Nobody said you did. I didn’t even imply somebody in your ancestry did, but that doesn’t negate the fact that a socioeconomic hierarchy built on race was created before this nation even declared for independence. If you can’t even admit the truth about what the country was really founded on then it truly is no hope for the future of America.