You have to get people must address this issue head on. The legacy is there. Whites should not ignore it and neither should Blacks. Whites view it that if you talk about the issue, they are going to be branded as racists and Blacks do not allow the whites to talk and we are quick to judge. Let people get angry, let them get upset, but, if we do not address this issue of racism, it will always have be in the background influencing the social and economic development of this state.
Racism is based on economics.
Slavery was as much an economic issue as it was anything else. Let's be frank, if they could have gotten those slaves and had they been purple, they would have gotten them. It turned into a racial issue, but at the end of the day, it was purely about economics. Let's not forget that there were also Black slave owners who had slaves and at the end of the day, they had slaves for economic reasons. I think that people are hung up on racism too much.