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This is racist talk. First, no women had any political power. That's 50% of slavery-era "whites".Slavery was made legal in the UNITED STATES by whites. You want to go back a million years in order to say you are not responsible. But we are talking about the claim of whites dying to free us.
Then, slavery was only in the south. That eliminates northern whites. Then, even in the south, it was only in coastal plains, where slavery existed. In southern mountain states, there was no cotton growing, No plantations. No slaves. That eliminates an enormous part of the south. Then you have the class factor. Even with the coastal plain areas of the south, it's only rich whites who had slaves, and they were a tiny minority of that population.
Overall, you have less than 1% of "whites" before 1865, who had any responsibility for slavery, and that's probably a lower % than the % of blacks in African countries who sold the slaves into slavery.
Then there's the time factor. Slavery ended in 1866 with the 13th amendment to the Constitution, written earlier on, by Jacob Howard and Abraham Lincoln. In order for any slaveholder to be alive today, they'd have to be about 170 years old. So no "whites" alive today, or even in the past 3 generations, had anything to do with slavery.
So slavery, in this day & age, as far as responsibility is concerned, is a (literally) dead issue.
Now that brings us to who IS alive today, and DOES have something to do with racial oppression. . Well, that would be all the people (black & white) who have pushed and supported Affirmative Action. That outrageous racism should be abolished nationwide (currently banned in only 8 states), and large reparations$$ should be paid to whites LIVING TODAY.
If you are so up in arms against the whites who were slaveholders, in the 19th century, perhaps you could go to an old cemetary, and yell at their tombstones. And while you're at it, you could go to a Civil War cemetary, where Union soldiers are buried, put flags or flowers, and express thanks.