It’s like the people trying to always convince us that America was a racist sexist torture chamber for anyone who wasn’t a white man. America is a beacon for freedom and has been since inception. It’s not perfect, but it’s the best country we got.
Also reminds me of a quote from Jefferson who said, "There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety."
Native Americans, slaves and their descendants would vehemently disagree with you
Do you know native Americans owned African slaves?
As did Africans when they defeated tribes at war but there were codes and laws on how to treat them. They also didn’t own them by the hundreds of thousands nor go to war over them. Try again
I’m not trying to convince you of anything.
And that gets captured as a narrative as well. A couple years ago there was a picture of a bunch of american politicians on one knee adorned with african scarves all over the news. I laughed my ass off when i saw it. My wife asked why and i pointed out that the pattern was classic Ashanti. That tribe had a long and distinguished history of slave traficking.
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