Slavery, Leftists, and the Holocaust

Do you believe that the hate filled insanity of Reverend Wright is an isolated thing, consider not only the number of defenders he has, but comments on AOL like that set forth below (continuing my importaiton of AOL comments under that story of Nazi war crimnals--see previous two entries):

"Try addressing SLAVERY every now and then.
I am sick of hearing about HOLOCAUST, a crime commited by ONE Man's Madness.
SLAVERY was commited by a whole RACE of People.
No appologies, the Hatred continues today, the oppression continues today.
F*UCK the HOLOCAUST, let's talk about SLAVERY, You IDIOTS."

What can you say about the above attempt to outdo Reverend Wright in irrational hate speech?

First, RACES do NOT engage in slavery.  Individuals--you could perhaps extend it to governments, tribes, and other groups of individuals--engage in slavery.  BLACKS in AFrica engaged in slavery (often selling slaves to European slave traders).  EVERY American who ever owned slaves (legally, anyway) has been DEAD for almost 150 years.  In fact, many WHITE Americans DIED to abolish slavery in the Civil War.  Should THEIR descendants "apologize" for slavery?  The "apology" for the evil mistake of slavery was written in blood, in the Civil War, and embodied in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

The idea that RACES are repsonsible for what individuals of their race do is, of course, RACISM.  The dirty little secret is that there are few "pure" white people, or "pure" balck people.  Most Americans are MONGRELS, where one set of our ancestors may have oppressed another set (by family history, for example, I am 1/8 Cherokee Indian, or something like that). 

Racial hatred just gets you nowhere--especially racial hatred for sins of the past, when the people committing the sins are DEAD.  Now we should not forget the sins of the past (including the Holocaust), or condone them in today.  But this idea of a racial vendetta (a racial "blood feud"--the bllod is ALL red, in air) until the end of time is a truly evil thing. 

To encourage this kind of racial hatred, and the idea that you can hold "white" people today accountable for the sins of their, or  OTHER "white" persons', ancestors does African-Americans no favor.