My Own White Guilt

[LincolnMan]

Mike: excellent post on the subject of slavery in America. I hope you can come to a place in your heart where the self-confessed "guilt" will be resolved. I don't personally feel you need to have guilt over what your ancestors did or didn't do. I believe that the Civil War was the price paid for slavery- for the involvement in it- both North & South. Is your guilt then saying that the Civil War was not enough? That's a question you must answer for yourself. Although I don't have any slaveowners in my ancestry- as far as I know- it was an issue I struggled with in the past simply because I'm white. Thank you for sharing on this Forum!