One thing I never hear from the media coverage about the slaves "being taught marketable skills"

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5. ..original sin, yes but let's not forget the twin

..to that sin ,the genocide of the indigenous peoples of this hemisphere. When people live from the land, and you drive them from their land. You are killing them off. From the Trail of tears to Oklahoma, which was later also appropriated, to Wounded Knee, to boarding schools that took their children (like Putin has done in Ukraine) to the insult of cultural appropriation that are spirts mascot names. We have much to teach ourselves about....