Most historians won't compare blacks and native americans to "voluntary minorities". The bulk of blacks in America today are descendant from people who were ta

Most historians won't compare blacks and native americans to "voluntary minorities". The bulk of blacks in America today are descendant from people who were taken here involuntarily and have had a completely different history up until about 1970 than any other minority. Native Americans have their own history obviously that is similiarily oppressed. Compare that to someone from Asia or South/Latin America or Mexico who came here for largely the same reasons as the Europeans did in the 1700s and 1800s - better job prospects or for some reason a better life in America. That self selects who comes a lot more than most people realize. Obviously most people were born here and are not immigrants, but we are largely descendent from immigrants and that shapes our views. If you grow up with your family story being praise about how much better life is now than in the old country, wouldn't that be a whole lot different than growing up and your family story being about how you were kidnapped, dragged here, enslaved, and then discriminated against for 115 years after you were no longer slaves?