2. "Yea that pissed me off too." In response to In response to 1 Thu Feb-25-21 05:33 PM by Brew
>"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.