If slaves could be whisked suddenly to modern America, they would be dumbfounded by people who use slavery – 156 years “after freedom broke” – to create the illusion that white oppression still cripples blacks at every turn.
They’d see Oprah, Obama, black mayors, black police chiefs, black surgeons, black attorneys, black scientists, athletes, astronauts, and entrepreneurs, and wonder if something magical happened in America. It did. Freedom.
Still, Ibram X. Kendi wrote the column, “We’re Still Living and Dying in the Slaveholders’ Republic,” for
The Atlantic in May. Calls to lift the COVID-19 stay-at-home policy, he wrote, is an example of “the psyche of the slaveholder” never leaving America. Conservatives wanting to open the economy is “the slaveholder clamoring for
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