Hear, Hear. The sins of America are the sins of all humanity; however, the accomplishments of America (and our cultural anticedents in Europe) are unique in history and are ultimately responsible for all of the liberty and human rights achieved throughout the world we live in today.

While every race may have been on the end of slavery at one time or another, my race is still feeling the sting of it in this country. In other countries, other races are still feeling it--children are taken as slaves right now. But here, the vestiges of the system remain. People would like to say they don't, but they do. People are still angry. You can dismiss it with two words and say he's wrong for feeling that way, but the truth is, we still have names like Jefferson, Washington and Adams because we were imported and on the plantations of the Forefathers of this country. Feelings like that cut deep. Is it rational? Can't say it is. Is it right? Is it crazy? People say it's because of internal colonialization that Black culture it is today. I don't expect you to feel as I do, or to agree. I could give two shits, really. Do I feel the same as Wright? No. I feel the way I do. I'm half imported, half immigrant. But I think you're over-simplifying and refusing to sympathize. Sympathy is where humility and humanity comes from. Everyone deserves to be treated as a human being. When we dehumanize people, that's when we risk treating them as less than human, without feeling--and more importantly--without rights.