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"It is fair to say that most white people had been so acculturated to view black people as different from them that they did not perceive the existence of slavery in America as a problem, and when exposed to slaves, they barely noticed the pain that they experienced." The parallel between what this quote referred to (separation of enslaved families) and numerous current events is striking.