>"There's not much question that the wealth of this country,
>the power of this country was built in significant part —
>not exclusively, maybe not even the majority of it — but a
>large portion of it was built on the backs of slaves."
>
>yeah,no. i don't like that hedge AT ALL
>
>its exclusively.
>
>no, Barry. fuck outta here w/that
>
>hundreds of years free labor made this country rich and
>powerful. they they doubled down on mass incarceration, i.e.
>the current form of slavery. PERIOD

It's definitely exclusively the result of slavery, and post-slavery oppression.

And there's direct, data-driven evidence of that fact.