#Slavery

“Juneteenth reminds us of both the unimaginable injustice of slavery & the incomparable joy that must have attended emancipation. It is both a remembrance of a blight on our history
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Propane Jane: The black vote is so underrepresented in most of the polls being presented; I don't see Trump getting more of the black vote than he did in 2016.@docrocktex26
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a lot of people clearly have no idea how sex trafficking + human trafficking + assaults against children actually occur and like it’s okay to not know because people don’t
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1. “I’m a single white man from South Carolina,” an aggrieved Lindsey Graham declared last week.Note: Graham’s Senate seat has never been occupied by anyone *but* a white man.Before Graham,
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29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the
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The history of Slave Trade in Kerala. #Thread There is a stone on the east side of the Kottayam Thirunakkara temple. Many people do not know the historical significance of
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Hearing reports that some areas in US are seeing heavy suseptiblility to covid19 in Africa American communities. I warned before that T cell interactions will dictate severity, but I had
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“...racism may wear a new dress, buy a new pair of boots, but neither it nor its succubus twin fascism is new or can make anything new.” - Toni Morrison
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Not strictly tied to the KKK, but I think it deserves mention that Democrats have supported gun control for a long, long time -- originally it was explictly race-based: an
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"White" as a "race" was invented for the racialization of slavery to denote "not eligible for enslavement." For generations it was used ONLY in that context, w Europeans navigating right
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Do those Brits who believe it’s ok to sing an 18th Century song about never being enslaved, written when the UK was enslaving and killing millions of innocents, also believe
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Donald Trump is a racist and a bigot.America is a racist country.If you support him, then you’re probably a racist and a bigot too.#TrumpIsARacist #AmericaIsARacistCountry An 8-article thread Exhibit A
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If you're looking for a basis for talking about racial wealth gaps, see this research. If you are looking for a discussion on what caused those wealth gaps: consider systemic
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I entered #thegreatconversation with a thread on multiple intelligences. It might be fruitful to have a separate one on the “standard” form to which I am opposing it.https://www.pinterest.com/pin/730709108279256924/ https://www.pinterest.com/pin/7307
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I've been asked to give a few thoughts on the #GRANT documentary. I'm going to limit my comments to the interpretation of Grant's life in St. Louis, which is my
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X : I can't work out whether you're pro or against China?Me : Depends upon what we're looking at. I'm all in favour of learning economic lessons and gameplay from
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