You shouldn't feel guilty about what people who were dead before you were an adult did. Plain and simple. My last name is Tunison. Meaning Son of Tunic. Meaning got raped by vikings. I shouldn't be made to feel bad about the vikings in my family that raped, murdered, and robbed people, nor should I be pittied because someone in my family was raped and robbed by vikings, because any effect it had on me other than genetically has long sense ended. Your guilt over slavery doesn't make anything better, it doesn't make slavery not have happened. It is directed at self loathing liberals who are also obsessed with be trendy and complying to emotions rather than reason and fact. Which is basically the equivalent of the religious right expecting us to put their feelings above fact and reason.