The same ideologies used to keep people in bondage continue in the wake of the institution of slavery. America's attempts to move on and forget its history as dark as Bellmont's have passed, but the shadow of slavery and oppression still looms over those who maintain ties to a legacy of slavery. That less-than-human, less-deserving identity carries with it younger generations who never experience the whiplash. The shadow will never lift until the average person takes it upon themselves to look within and see how their inaction only spreads more