Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷

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

The idea that the only reason Black people existed at all was to serve white people’s needs and desires — to work and to bear any discomfort or outrage QUIETLY was core to American culture. Any divergence was a sign of a “dangerous” Black person. Those ideas have persisted. https://t.co/HzKnFPoyOm — PolitiTweet.org

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Americans continually underplay the breadth and vehemence of most Americans’ attachment to slavery, and how far people were willing to go to defend it, to justify it, to lay the blame on the enslaved themselves for resisting it, and to make themselves seem like good people. 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

#Drapetomania: Southerners Actually Thought Slaves Escaping Was A Sign Of Mental Illness "Southern doctors used ps… https://t.co/zf5gbFcxG1

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Supposed “intellectuals” even developed pseudo-science to try and justify these beliefs which were really about maintaining the ridiculously profitable system of slavery and human-breeding that went with it. https://t.co/k2ItlUWXRB — PolitiTweet.org

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