Most of the white people who live in America and call themselves Americans today had nothing to do with slavery in America and didn't even have ancestors who lived in this country at the time of slavery. Most people LEGALLY immigrated here at some time between slavery days and nowadays. So? Who are you so angry at and why?
Chris its the ideal of racism that immigrated here , and the idea is what keeps it alive in our world. For example, we may kill most of the terrorist and physically move them out of countries ; but its the " Ideal" of terror that can live in the consciousness of people, which will keep it alive.
What hurts our race is the idea that Whites are better than Blacks
The idea that Blacks are inbred criminals and thus need " Extra policing."
WE have to live with the " Thought that Older White women need to fear Black men", as if we are going to hurt them or rob them. WE have to suffer from that White woman who is in charge of human resources dept. that "decides" to over look the Black people who apply for the jobs, because she " Think" the Blacks will cause trouble. These Whites, who had nothing to do with slavery, still have " Slave mentality", and inherited that " Thinking" right out of the air. The Whites that are not prejudiced simply reject those thoughts.
As far as the Blacks who use the N word, each has a reason for doing it. It ranges from learning from listening , to belittle, hate for some, its used as affection for others, to some, like myself, its a meaningless term. I had to " Unlearn it", but it took 40 years of blindly using it, before I woke up; but the society conversing about it is what changed my mind. Just like we are talking about it now, this is how I learned and realized that I needed to rid the term from my vocab.