Neither slavery nor WWII would have ended without intervention, but that doesn't mean it didn't involve soul searching on all sides.  Whites and Blacks working together passed Civil Rights legislation.  I described a lady who was like a second mother to me; she raised my siblings and me right alongside her own.  Sorry her appearance doesn't meet your Beyonce-style standard.  I will take radiant and pure and humble and non-assuming beauty over the disgusting icons of debauchery in "the community" today.  Maybe the Mills Brothers don't meet your foul-mouth violent rapper standards, either.  Our families did a lot together, just like good friends should.  You must see everything through a prism of race.  I do pity you.  There is a whole world of freedom and love and peace for those of us who no longer rehash the evils of nearly two centuries ago. God didn't want anyone to be slaves, Christians were the driving force in emancipating them.  Slavery is alive and well in the Middle East.