On my father's side, my great grandfather was a street merchant in NY. He made sure that my grandfather was educated, and he eventually became a dentist, then a professor of dentistry at NYU. My mother's father came over from Poland, and was a bootmaker by trade. My mother worked two jobs while putting herself through college. All this without government handouts or other programs...
If you look at recent immagrants from coutries like Jamaica, you see blacks working hard and getting ahead. Why is it that they can make headway against the "institutionalized racism," but native born blacks can't? Could it be that they haven't had their work ethic destroyed by government and the so-called "black leadership?" They don't expect hand-outs, and work hard for what they want and need. They realize that the way to self respect is to earn what they get, and not worrying about "self image."
I want to know exactly how slavery has directly impacted the lives of blacks today. Was slavery wrong and evil? Well, duh! Did some blacks lose family members to slavery? Of course! But then, this sort of thing happens to everyone. At one time or another, just about everyone has lost family members to some sort of evil.
Mark