Hal H. Harris
1 min readFeb 8, 2022

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"If so, are the Africans who captured and sold slaves to the Europeans also part of that, or does it only apply to whites?"

Example A of a racist argument, as this is a stock assertion of those emotionally committed to opposing Black personhood.

There is a difference between African nations at the time who engaged in the trading of slaves vs. the United States, which built the most powerful nation in the world on the labor of the enslaved while stating it stood for freedom and liberty. Don't come here with your stock anti-1619 Project points and expect to be seen as informed, child.

"Your nation did not pass voter restriction laws, only a few states did. Do you seriously think that is even remotely as bad as slavery?"

Have you been paying attention to how the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act? Or their decision, TODAY, to allow Alabama's racially gerrymandered voting districts to stand? That is occurring at the federal level, which qualifies as "my nation."

Don't come here with weak comments and arguments if you can't be bothered to do the homework.

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Hal H. Harris
Hal H. Harris

Written by Hal H. Harris

Black on Both Sides. Medium Writers Challenge Winner. The founder of Established in 1865. I Tweet @Established1865. E-mail is hal.harris@est1865.com.

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