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Martha Morningsong's avatar

We do not forget. Original sins of Europeans.

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Fawn Ortega's avatar

This…

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Mary Farrow's avatar

Now, they are trying to take us back to those times.

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NoHandmaidsAVL's avatar

“It was funded with stolen people on stolen lands.” Then sold to us as a democracy. Hits hard. I feel so sick.

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William Bernstein's avatar

Who is this dope?

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Teryl S.'s avatar

Actually it wasn’t the people who were building the country who took the people from their homeland. But they bought these poor displaced families like buying a tool. And proceeded to use these folks like her family to treat like they were not human beings but robots to do all the work to clear the stolen land for to build their wealth. Sounds very familiar to what the tRump regime is doing once again. They are dehumanizing whole swaths of people so to make this egregious Big Ugly Bill.

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Steve O’Cally's avatar

It was the cruelest social experiment in history.

People were dragged here, many dying on the way. Nothing about their humanness was accepted or encouraged, quite the opposite.

A worshipful document from the very founding said:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

The words do not say the hidden truth:

“NOT FOR YOU.”

The oracle spoke truth which it did not understand:

ALL MEN

This, the experiment: is it TRUE?

Yes it is.

Reverend King pointed it out. Black History is mostly a demonstration of this truth.

In the course of Black History, I do not know one genuine effort by White society to help Black peoples’ status. And don’t call me ungrateful-I’m an older white guy who looks for all the world like a well to do MAGA guy, on the outside.

I am not at all.

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C Endres's avatar

Agree, it wasn’t.

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Ash's avatar

True!

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Shawna Stobaugh's avatar

100%. If Americans truly want to live the words in our founding documents, they must realize what wrongs were and that they continue today. This country continues to use not just brown people, but poor people now as well. Taking our taxes and not giving anything in return for that money.

Looking at the grievances in the Declaration of Independence

I see so many of these same issues happening right here & now with Trump.

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