• SwingingTheLamp
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    4 days ago

    Yeah, in addition to having a super-endowment of natural resources, remember that we also stole the labor of about 20 generations of Africans to help turn that into wealth.

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      Yeah, and the right side of our government is now trying to cover up and bury that entire segment of our history. It’s absolutely insane what they are doing.

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      4 days ago

      True, but that isn’t really very unique to the US

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        Of course! The part that Americans don’t want to hear is that we are wealthy because of that theft of labor. It’s not just an immoral peccadillo of our ancestors.

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      We’ve been converting that over to latinos, still shit pay but less chaining people to things.