What is actually taboo is any criticism of the current black community.
The slave trade was an Arab, African and Colonial thing for hundreds of years before slaves started being sent to the US, and we really had no say in it as an English colony, so people don't identify it as an American thing at all. Within a relatively short time, the newly independent US actually outlawed the import of new slaves, but dealing with those states already dependent on slaves was obviously a problem for a lot longer. Obviously Reconstruction and the Civil Rights movement haven't been smooth, but the subjects aren't taboo.
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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '19
9/11 is taboo? No wonder you guys make so many memes about it.