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This needs to shouted to the Heavens. It's not racist at all to point out this very obvious contradiction in black history. They all complain about a hundred plus years of "oppression," yet the oppression they experienced in the US is NOTHING compared to what they would've been subjected if they'd stayed in Africa. Hell, an overwhelming majority of blacks in the US today would likely not exist if not for slave owners impregnating the black women they owned. Why do you think there are so many black Jeffersons, Jacksons, etc.?
Listen, I'm not trying to play down the brutality of some slave owners or the living conditions, but compared to what they would've lived through in sub-Saharan Africa, America was the Ritz!
Just for the record, only a small fraction of them were due to sexual relations between white slave owners and black slaves, although the presence of such matches is not uncommon somewhere in the family tree due to the doubling of potential ancestors in each generation back.
The majority of them opted for names of famous people in lieu of taking the surname of their former owners shortly after slavery ended in 1865. Booker T. Washington, in his epic autobiography Up From Slavery discusses this in depth.
Ironically, the one thing the more ambitious of these newly freed slaves sought was education. Look up the Niagara Movement and establishment of ad hoc schools such as the one in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, which birthed the NAACP. The leftwing leadership of today would have been disowned by the founders of their movements who, against all odds, were successful in promoting the same education in white man's world which is ridiculed by the leftwing leadership of today.