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My dad was a white slave, Kentucky Republican tells NAACP (www.motherjones.com)

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My dad was a white slave, Kentucky Republican tells NAACP

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Equating forced labor, prison labor, indentured servitude, and poverty to chattel slavery is ignorance at best and serves white supremacy by minimizing the the Atlantic Slave Trade. If you get confused, just ask: Is someone legally allowed to sell my child?