he makes a good point besides the "getting to be born in a first world country" part, assuming that fact about who owned slaves is correct - which it wouldn't surprise me if it was.
i don't know how many other european-descent north americans feel the same way as me, because it all depends on your personal history, but i am very offended by the reverse racism that is implicitly directed upon me because of my skin colour. its okay for first nations/inuit/native americans/afroamericans to use the term "white man," "white man's religion," etc, but the reverse is intolerably racist. for me, my father was born in scotland and my mother was the first on her side to be born in canada. my personal heritage has fuck all to do with colonizing anyone or owning any slaves, and i'm supposed to feel guilty for what happened centuries ago, just because historically people from my ethnic background did some horrible shit? if that's not racist i don't know what is.
i'm sure this is true for others as well.
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