The slave trade was enabled by native Africans who sold captives from rival tribes to white Europeans.
And don't forget that the Arab slavetrade, which went on for far longer and also enslaved Africans (along with Europeans), is hardly ever brought up. White people are evil for slavetrade, but Muhammad was super progressive yo, and though he had slaves, he encouraged others to set them free!
I have no guilt about being white whatsoever. I haven't enslaved nor oppressed anyone, and I don't think I'm better than anyone else, certainly not by the amount of melanin present in my epidermal layer.
Well race goes a little deeper than just melanin. Look at athletics, for example, where almost all the best long distance runners are from East Africa, and all the best short distance runners are from West Africa.
If something like athletic performance has a genetic, "racial" component, there is reason to believe that there could also be a "racial" component to other traits. Such as intelligence. We know there is a genetic, component to addiction, for example, and this component has a racial distribution.
The problem is, that a lot more research needs to be done. This research isn't done in the West, since as soon as you mention race and intelligence in the same sentence, you're literally worse than Hitler.
The Chinese aren't cucked to this extent, and are actually investing in research that looks at genetics and the genetical component to intelligence.
Sorry for the ramble. TLDR: "Race" is more than melanin. The Chinese will breed a race of highly intelligent super-Chinks.
As others have pointed out, "white guilt" has morphed into the modern equivalent of original sin: A quasi-religious concept, and a foundational cornerstone of the progressive church of regressive liberalism.
Have white people done shitty things? Sure, like any other race has. Colonialism and racism aren't "white" traits. They are human traits.
Ghengis Khan raised entire cities, and killed hundreds of thousands at a time where the population of earth was in the millions and not billions. Yet nobody talks about "mongol guilt".
Serfs in Russia were property that could be bought or sold, lived lives that were every bit as miserable as those of slaves in the South, and they didn't get emancipated until 1861.
If you would suggest that their descendants should get reparations today, people would rightfully crown you as the king of idiots, since the concept is almost as retarded, as claiming that serfdom over a century ago is what causes alcoholism or crime in Russia today.
But switch out 'serfs' with 'African Americans', and you've just established your credentials as a super woke,
good white person.
And at the end of the day, that's what 'white guilt' is about at its core: A pissing contest for white, upper middle class progressives, to show off their imagined moral superiority over the "bad" white people.
