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The narrative that bothers me on why God can’t exist is that of how our ancestors were enslaved.
1. As the idea that bad things shouldn’t happen.
2. As the idea that bad things shouldn’t happen to Black people.
1. As the idea that bad things shouldn’t happen.
2. As the idea that bad things shouldn’t happen to Black people.
On 1. The fact that those who question God’s existence is also part of why bad things can happen: people have a choice. Yes, God can intervene at any time.
However, that fundamentally alters the human experience, which is immensely contingent on choice. If only good things happened, our perceptions of what it means to be kind, to love, even of what’s good, would be weird.
Think about kids that grew up lacking nothing and have never been exposed to lack/poverty. Their understanding of resource allocation in terms of finiteness is not the same as those that know going without. But lack isn’t great.
So the presence of bad things is also part of what God extends to us to allow us all a choice. Which is great because you can still choose to believe He doesn’t exist. 
Now, whether or not God must limit the choices of those who are bad? We allow convicts to elect our President (e.g), and put them through correctional facilities to rehabilitate them.
God wants His entire creation to choose Him and be redeemed much the same.
God wants His entire creation to choose Him and be redeemed much the same.
On 2. I want to state categorically that I hate the effects of slavery on my People (and anyone for that matter). I hate that, in SA, my People are still living through realities created by the Apartheid regime.
That being said, who would we pass it all on to? And would we readily accept the Yemeni’s current plight? Or that of the Jewish people under Hitler? The crusades way back when? The Spanish inquisition?
None of the above had to happen. And slavery and/or colonisation as much as any of them. I struggle with the link between their happening and the idea that that negates God’s existence.
All of those atrocities happened because people exercised their choices terribly by exerting pain on other (undeserving) people. So again, highly unlikely that God would intervene how you’d have liked.
Heck, Jesus Christ was on the cross with 2 bandits. But neither ended up with the same fate because of what they ended up choosing.
As such, I personally think it’s lazy to invoke slavery (of Black people) as the reason why you (as a Black person) don’t believe God exists. Those are largely human choices. Sadly, they’ve affected us somehow.
We can probably argue the validity of the Bible as your reason? What you feel is a lack of His presence in your life? But “bad things happened to me, ergo” is not quite the boat that floats.
