These Founders believed it was consistent with their “Christian” faith to own other humans, rape them (and if they became pregnant, thereby add to their property), sell their children, mutilate them if they tried to escape. Do we imagine our nation has outlived this Sin?
Every “Founder” with a red dot over their face “owned” enslaved Africans. That’s over 75% of them. That’s why Frederick Douglass in 1852 raised the question “ Whose #IndependenceDay are you celebrating?” In Rochester, New York. #FourthofJuly #July4th #happy244th
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Trump believes that to point this out, or to take down Confederate statues or change the names of military bases that celebrate those who fought to extend these crimes is to cancel or deny our “history” and “heritage.” Whose history? Whose heritage?
Jul 4, 2020 · 7:43 PM UTC
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