Blacks were enslaved and prevented from developing their culture for over 400 years in America. They can work out their identity however they like.

They were prevented from developing their culture? I'm pretty sure cultural ties and norms were one of the binding aspects that they were able to hold on to and eventually salvage after the horrors of slavery were eradicated in the West.

Also, you, along with many media types, conveniently omitted the numerous European people's that were enslaved and faced dire conditions in the America's.

1) Even at the peak of American slavery, only a tiny percentage of American whites—about 1.5%—owned slaves.

2) Leading up to the Civil War, a vastly higher quotient of whites had worked as indentured servants and convict laborers than had ever owned slaves. Most historians, regardless of their political orientation, agree that anywhere from half to two-thirds of whites who came to the American colonies arrived in bondage. The fact that the vast majority of whites existed in a state closer to slavery than to slave ownership is something resolutely ignored in the modern retelling of history.

3) Documents from the era show that so-called white “indentured servants” were often referred to as “slaves” rather than “servants.”

4) These “servants” did not always enter into voluntary contracts. There is overwhelming evidence that many of them were kidnapped by organized criminal rings and sent to work on American plantations. It is possible that as many, if not more, whites than blacks were brought involuntarily to the colonies.

5) The middle-passage death rates for these “servants” were comparable to that of blacks on slave ships from Africa to the New World.

6) Indentured servants were whipped and beaten, sometimes to death. When they escaped, ads were placed for their capture.

7) They lived under conditions so brutal that an estimated half of them died before their seven-year term of indenture expired.

Howard Zinn states that “white indentured servants were often treated as badly as black slaves.” Eugene Genovese claims that “In the South and in the Caribbean, the treatment meted out to white indentured servants had rivaled and often exceeded in brutality that meted out to black slaves….”

Note that Zinn and Genovese are both Marxists, yet they opt to be historically accurate instead of convenient, narrative-driven revisionists.

There are countless records of white slavery in the Americas, from firsthand accounts to laws on the books. For example:

During a 1659 Parliamentary debate on the white-servant trade to the colonies, legislators used the word “slaves” rather than “servants.” A Virginia law of 1705 mentions the “care of all Christian slaves,” Christian being a contemporary euphemism for European.

It's also peculiar that you omit the Barbary Slave Trade practiced by the Ottomans, just as many leftists who portray Europeans as the only group who have practiced slavery and colonization. The Barbary pirates enslaved millions of white and black slaves alike, but this contrast is either shouted down or outright denied in geopolitical debates and in academia.

This narrative implies that white people are solely responsible for the fact that some groups live in abject poverty outside of the west, and is used to justify numerous policies from foreign aid to mass immigration by guilt-tripping and scapegoating working class whites for their "privilege."

Who says proud to be hispanic? They refer to themselves as latino or latina.

Talk to La Raza and the Reconquista movements and get back to me. Semantics won't dull the point regarding this statement.

What country are white people from? What's white culture?

Is this a segue to the stale meme of "whites don't have any culture"? Genuinely curious.