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US Politics 15h
The vast majority of white people didn’t own a slave
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Anonymous 14h

you’re right, poorer whites had the option to rent slaves instead

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Anonymous 14h

Yet we still live in the context of the ones that did- almost as if that’s the entire point

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Anonymous 13h

Depending on how ur looking at it. Across the US in general duh u can’t own a slave in states where it’s illegal gang. But if we look specifically at all of the southern states where it was legal roughly 25-30% of the population owned slaves and as we look at the states the percentages increase. Mississippi alone almost half the population, 49%, did own at least one slave

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Anonymous 14h

Breaking news: most people alive today didn’t participate in a phenomenon that happened 2-3 generations ago. Doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be talked about tho

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Anonymous 13h

But white people buy shit from target made by black prison laborers who got paid cents per hour in unsafe working conditions while white criminals with the same convictions got off with lesser sentencing for the same crime…

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Anonymous 12h

And? What do you want us to do with this information?

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Anonymous 11h

What do you want us to do with this information?

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Anonymous 5h

psychological wage of whiteness

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 12h

I meant back then

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 12h

I bet you do too

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 12h

Just saying. And for some reason it ruffled some feathers

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 12h

Just saying… why? What was the point?

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 12h

Did it ruffle yours too?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 12h

I don’t really gaf but you seem to think I should and I don’t see why

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 12h

You DO realize that “back then” there weren’t even estimated to be a billion people on the planet right? Even conservative estimates don’t have the world population exceeding a billion until like 1800 AD. You see it with the lens of there being 10 billion people alive on earth and only a fraction of them being slave owners but it was a much larger problem

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 12h

Just shut up. People like you don’t deserve freedom of speech.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11h

That’s not the point… Many impoverished people shop at target too because it’s cheap, and we should know that black people and marginalized people in general are more at risk of poverty due to settler colonialism and patriarchal capitalism.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11h

What happened back then laid the groundwork for what’s happening right now and it installed the worldview to make that possible… Coloniality is an ongoing structure that shows up in so many aspects of our culture today.

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