and whites will never be able to explain why they hated blacks so much back then either. they can't blame it on crime statistics, they can't blame it on sagging pants, they can't blame it on rap music.
I was just thinking about this the other day, since they had no reason to treat us the way they did, they laid the groundwork for us to decay into a group they can point at and say "see, it's not us, how is it our fault that they're killing each other at the rate they are?" and other things that justify their treatment towards us.
we didn't hop off the slave ships hating ourselves and each other, but by the time slavery was over we had a very healthy hate for ourselves and each other and it's been growing worse with each generation, this is all stems from tactics slave owners used during slavery such as pitting one slave against the other, raping our women right in front of us and us not being able to help them, etc..
we need to really understand why we behave the way we do as a collective otherwise any progress we do make will only be short lived.