One thing I’ve noticed since my friend turned into a conservative meme post a thon is that conservatives seem to think we liberals want them to be guilty about the past. To me, it really isn’t that. I know you nor your parents or even grandparents owned slaves but the point is that the side-effects of slavery did and arguably still do exist well in to our lifetimes. As LH brought up, things like segregated neighborhoods aren’t that distant memories. So, yeah you didn’t own slaves and maybe even none of your ancestors did but that’s really not the point. The point is for years because of slavery we had a system that treated black people like second class citizens and many whites benefited from such a system.