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It's hard to tell if this question comes from a place of genuine curiosity and an overwhelming amount of ignorance, or just trolling.
by ssully 7y ago
It's hard to tell if this question comes from a place of genuine curiosity and an overwhelming amount of ignorance, or just trolling.
- mieseratte 7y ago> and an overwhelming amount of ignorance I'm aware of god awful amounts of present-day adverse impact upon the black community, among others. What I'm not quite understanding is that slavery is the cause as opposed to myriad racist policies or otherwise dysfuntional systems between 1865 and now.
- ssully 7y agoI suppose I just don't see the difference between the two. I guess I could see how one could say slavery existed because of the racist systems and policies, but I just don't think the article needs to make that distinction since they are so intertwined.
- mieseratte 7y ago> since they are so intertwined. They're simply different things, slavery doesn't imply racism though the US system was almost entirely on racial lines. Either way there's a broken situation that needs fixed.