It's just a Southern thang y'all!

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We'll also BrokenQuill92' shall we? If she thinks the only difference between then and now is that she has to feed herself and that she's now in a worse condition than actual slavery. I mean she has first hand knowledge so I think her view would be relevant.

Ask her whether she believes that the fate of her people is in their own hands or not. Or whether they are still tied to the whims and fancies of the white masters.

Do you know of a country called Liberia?
The Amero-Liberians were the testimony to the perpetual mental enslavement. They were so disattached from their roots, and so hopelessly connected to the mindset and culture of their masters, they just could not connect with the native African tribes in Liberia. So they emulated their masters by enslaving the natives.

People usually tend to think that skin colour is a sufficient basis for an identity. But it isn't. Skin colour might serve as a means of distinction for both yourself and others, but if you are ignorant of that heritage, your roots, it usually serves as nothing more than a handicap in the case of the blacks of America.
Without knowing their roots, they can only say that are not white, but still, they must conform to the culture of the whites, must speak the language of the whites, and must follow the rules of the whites.
They conform to the ways of the whites, but they can never be whites. On the other hand, being "black" only grants them the past of slavery, so in order to be successful, in order to be someone, they emulate the whites as best as they can.