The Liberator, Boston, Massachusetts, October 21, 1842
The Liberator, Boston, Massachusetts, October 21, 1842
The Liberator, Boston, Massachusetts, October 21, 1842
And yet he will still be blamed.
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And we still see this shit play out. And still –STILL– we have white racists looking at the test scores of discouraged and deprived black kids and saying they‘re genetically inferior. So don’t listen to anybody saying electing President Obama ended racism.
hell, this trend was observed in ancient rome, concerning slavery, which in rome wasn’t a division of color, but caste. i wish i could remember where i saw it so i could quote it, because my memory is really vague, but one of those historian guys observed that slaves captured in war were smart and spirited, but their captive-born children were dull, and suggested it was the captivity rather than the ancestry that caused it.
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