German Ancestory

I was in a dialogue on face book with someone I don't know but I believe they were Black and if you know me I am white. The discussion was about being racist and this person believed she was not racist because she was black and a White person cannot understand since they did not live in times of slavery. But then neither did she as the original post we were commenting on started. I of course stated that being black does not make you immune from being racist. Our conversation went back and forth. Many Blacks seem to think even though they did not live in the slavery days of the south they still lived through racism, and I acknowledge racism does exist. I believe it to be a condition of a sinful heart and we are all capable of having a bad heart and being racist, no matter what color your skin is or your economic state in life. As I thought about this, many Blacks seem to want to be victims forever. I thought about a story another German told me about what he had learned in looking up his ancestry. Germans were good farmers several centuries ago, the Russian government made promises to German farmers that they did not keep. This according to my memory and what this German told me. Many German farmers went to Russia to farm, but when Russia did not keep their promise, many made their way to America as my ancestors did. My Great, Great or was it three Greats, Grandfather immigrated to America to South Dakota to farm.  This is on my Fathers side. On my Mothers side, my Grandfather immigrated to North Dakota, America from Romania, he or at least his family had been some of the German people that went to Russia. How would it be for me today to hold a grudge against the Russian people for not keeping their promise to the German farmers that were my ancestors. I know this is not as evil as slavery, but the point being, I didn't experience the broken promises from the Russian Government and many Blacks today did not experience slavery or even the Jim Crow days. Is it OK for them to hold grudges from their ancestors? would it be any different if I held a grudge against those Russians for what they did to my ancestors? I think we need to get past some things. Things are only as bad as we make them. We Germans have had a good life over here and are better off than we would be in Russia, and I think by the same token, Blacks that came from a history of slavery are better off today then they would be if they still lived in Africa. Can we just move on?   God bless, LVZ.