The Reality Of How America Was Built.

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7. Thank you for your K&R, warmfeet.

I am somewhat convinced, a bit anyway, that we can do better than this.

This I wholeheartedly agree.

However.

It actually speaks to all inequality.

Partially I agree. Yet when it comes to African American which the toon is talking about, I politely disagree. I do not know of any other people that were kidnapped from their homeland, packed in cargo ships like pieces of meat and then shipped to America to be sold as slaves or worked like animals and beaten mercilessly, sometimes to death. They were not even treated as human.

This photo breaks my heart.



Fact is slaves were thought to be free after the Emancipation Proclamation. Fact is it continued until WWII...and still continues today.

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Slavery By Another Name
by Douglas Blackmon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_by_Another_Name

A very sobering read.