BLog #3 for the Confederates in the Attic!

AS i was reading chapter 5 in the Confederates in the Attic. I came across this statement that a character in the book made.

pg.99, Chapter 5
"Chapman smiled sweetly. "BLacks just need to get over slavery," she said, as though talking of the flu. "You can't live in the past."

My thought: Well i am currently a HTS major, and one day we were in class and we had a discussion on sterotypes and gender. We happen to get on the topic of slavery and why African Americans get so mad when other racial groups bring the topic up. It seemed like alot of people had plenty of input on how a African American should feel. But it made me a little upset because all my colleagues were caucasians, and they really thought they knew how a black person should feel.So I put my little input in and I said "We as African Americans, and i think I'm speaking for othere's to... get upset because other racial groups did not have to go through what we went through, and for them to say just forget about it is disrepectful, because racism still exist today. And as black people we still struggle because whites took everything from us and they still do gradually but slowly everyday. As of today we African Americans are still struggling because we are trying to fight for our respect.

So therefore i DISAGREE with this statement.....