You're skipping over a critical difference which is at the heart of the issue. Yes, there have been SOME individuals of every background who have suffered under all types of conditions and injustices. However, back in the day, if a white "boss" was walking down the street alongside a white indentured servant (or "slave", if you prefer), the other folks on the street wouldn't have given either much notice. And aside from random differences like how they were dressed, etc.. no one would likely have treated one any differently than the other.
That situation is different for African Americans. Regardless of their behavior, character, etc., etc., some folks will make assumptions about them at first sight and automatically treat them differently just because of how they look on the outside. For example, I heard a story this week about a black man who went into a Nike store to buy his toddler son his first basketball. The store manager followed him out of the store and accused him of stealing the basketball, even though he had a receipt. I believe the police were even called. If he had been white, the store manager probably wouldn't have even noticed him. Hopefully we've all heard about the much worse examples that have filled our news over the past few months.
The bad treatment of any number of individuals of any ethnicity, religion, nationality etc., who've been mistreated in the past, cannot compare (with the possible exception of the holocaust and other genocides in the world) to the still pervasive, reflexive negativity (even if subconscious) frequently directed towards an entire race of people by some others.
(BTW, I recommend looking up the history of "Jim Crow". I probably got a couple of sentences about that in my grade school history classes and thought I knew what it was about. I was wrong. Even reading what Wikipedia has to say about it is a good place to start...)
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