[cooper_ganglia]

>unresolved issues surrounding slavery

>country was founded 248 years ago

>the "issue" stopped happening 159 years ago

I don't think an issue that lasted for barely 1/3 of our country's history and hasn't been legal for the entirety of this century, last century, or much of the century before that is the problem. I think people's addiction to being full-time victims is the issue, because if you're always a victim, you never have to be responsbile for anything in your life, you can always blame your imagined "oppressor". People do this, teach their children that they are also victims regardless of their actions, and maintain a long line of familial victimhood. DEI is a direct symptom of that.

[primax]

You were the last western country to deal with slavery, and it took a civil war to force the issue.

Then reconstruction was ended due to a political backlash from the south.

Don't pretend this is all over.