The United States and most of the world removed slavery in the 1800s. Slavery was not an American thing, it was a world thing. The way forward is in unity.
Britain, the largest empire in the world, removed slavery in 1833. All you're trying to accomplish is to make the United States the bad guy. The largest loss of life in a US war, was to end slavery. We did it.
We were the bad guys. I refuse to whitewash history just to make myself feel better. When we don't learn from history we repeat it. We do ourselves a disservice by denying who and what we are.
But our version of unity seems to be "letting" them occupy our slums while we're busy teaching a whitewashed history that ignores everything they have done for this country. AND every time they start to make their circumstances better, we find some convenient excuse to destroy it. Every. Time.
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