Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

Watching Journey of an African Colony on @netflix and whew... quite a reminder that even as their cousins were wiping out the indigenous and enslaving Africans in the Americas, European empires were carving up Africa and trading the unstolen African indigenous like playing cards. — PolitiTweet.org

Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 @JoyAnnReid

For context, around the time of that quote, the descendants of the stolen Africans in the U.S. were battling domestic terrorism designed to roll back the Civil War, Plessy vs Ferguson established Jim Crow, and the “new immigrants” were engaged in labor strikes in American cities. https://t.co/lrHdIEByqD — PolitiTweet.org