Slavery went on for many generations and it is hard to forget.Why not put yourselves in thier shoes and see for yourself.It is easy to judge a situation from a distance and think your point of view is right.When the colour of ones skin causes slavery,and though it is many years ago that it happened it is not easy to forget.Other ethnic groups complain what has happened to them in the past,do not the African Americans ,deserve the same right.

My feeling is they don't ask native americans to get over them losing their land, they don't ask the Jews to forget the holocaust (not in america but still), they don't ask Japanese americans to get over the concentration camp, so why should blacks just hop up and say slavery forgotten. Ask me people over exaggerate any dam way 99% of blacks don't even think about slavery as most of america like to make believe and pretend we do. the 1% who do are up and age and had grandparents either enslaved or trapped in jim crow or themselves experienced the bs of the 60s. and the 99% who do bring up usaully bring it up after some racist bs like blacks hadn't done this or that is said. The whole blacks use slavery everyday thing is just ridculous and also one point. The people who say kids now a days don't know how eas they have it. Come from areas where you don't KNOW HOW EASY YOU HAVE IT. Im just saying quit overblowing dumb stuff folks

us irish went through slavery just like the african americans did the only difference is is that we got over it. grow up and move on

It's not easy, but it would benefit African Americans to move on and not let former slavery continue to define them.

I'm "Black" or identify with as Back. I'm over slavery because I have never been through it, but I'm sure as hell not pleased about it. In fact, I'm more worried about the slavery going on now. Most Black pople I met feel the same. I find it funny when people like to bring up the fact that their great-great-great-great-great-great-great (times 1) parents were slaves and that *they* are over it ( if it happened to them and happened recently). That holds as much water a trying to claim our 1% drop of Crow Nation. With that said, people need to realize that there was a different history. For the mos part Slavery was not based upon RACE but more so our families debt, clan/tribe, or nation. American salvery towar lacks and N. Americans was a bit different. Most Black people, if they had to choose to be bitter about something, would recognize the fact that they didn't fuly get there rights until the 70's (40-ish years go) then had issues with the media portraying them in an unfair manner ("Drug war" which was later found to involve more whites than Blacks, The riot- which was later found that only 31% were Black, and cops going after minorities) o other everyday issues. I don't hold grudges towards things I've never dealt with. If I'm angry, it's over the fact that my professor is rude, that I got called he N-word, that I forgot a homework assignment, or that my roommate drank my milk without asking. I have a normal life to live, while I regret what happened I'm not consumed with it. However, I do get a bit irked when someone thinks they can compare their histor (from a different country, with a different race, and a dfferent history) and treat it as the same thing. So, in short, I'm fine...and so is everyone else I know. No need to ignore the past, but no need to be consumed with it either.