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The Velveteen Ocelot

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2. This country got rich from the unpaid labor of slaves

Reply to SiliconValley_Dem (Original post)

Sat Jun 20, 2020, 03:27 PM

Jun 2020

and the genocide of Native Americans whose land was stolen. An enormous amount of wealth was generated by plantation slaves picking cotton which was shipped to the textile mills in the northeast, and those plantations were situated on stolen land. The prosperous farms of the midwest and the plains were (and are) on stolen land. The richest country in the world is rich only because the labor and lands of others were taken from them.
We have to face up to that.

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last night I watched documentaries on Thurgood Marshall and Emmit Till [View all] SiliconValley_Dem Jun 2020 OP

PBS also running the docs. Saw Thurgood doc on PBS. empedocles Jun 2020 #1

This country got rich from the unpaid labor of slaves The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2020 #2

yes. to me, the vile attitudes about people if color are still there in many SiliconValley_Dem Jun 2020 #3

How much of those "riches" moondust Jun 2020 #4

Probably most of it, although a lot would have been lost during the Depression. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2020 #5

It galls me that generations of Europeans have migrated here and this has become "their" country Dream Girl Jun 2020 #6

I had a great uncle that was a Black mortician In San Francisco In the early 20th century kimbutgar Jun 2020 #7