If white Americans should feel guilty for slavery, who should feel even more guilty?

Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies, 27 April 1848 by François Auguste Biard

Identitarians often say white people should feel guilty for things done by dead rich white people. For example, in response to an article about the screenwriter of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom saying it failed because 12 Years a Slave “sucked up all the guilt about black people that was available”, a woman with a Korean last name said,

“White people need to feel guilty. In fact, any group who oppresses others needs to feel more than guilt: they need to have their power — and the means, structures, and resources for their ancestors to be powerful — completely removed so that they and people like them can do no more harm in the world. European slavers, Nazis, the 1% billionaires — bigots and money hoarders are the cancers of this earth.”

I replied,

“I assume from your name that you’re of Korean descent. Korea didn’t abolish slavery until 1894. I hope you feel thirty years’ more guilty than any American. You also have billionaires. Bigots and money hoarders know no hue or gender.”

I didn’t realize at the time that Korea only formally abolished slavery in 1894. It effectively continued there until 1930.

Now, focusing on white Americans gives a pass to black US slaveholders and Africans who sold slaves to…