Whether slavery was or wasn't a racist policy is an irrelevant debate to have in 2020 as there has been no slavery for quite some time. It was done for both racial and economic reasons, but again, that's neither here nor there to me. The only reason it's a topic at all is because it still gets political milage on both sides of the isle.more maybe the argument you are trying to make that slavery wasn’t a racist policy because there were some black slave owners.