• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 days ago

    it was an aspiration, a goal of our forefathers.

    I just do not believe this. These are people who regularly raped their slaves, and then enslaved the progeny.

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      It was an aspiration for white men specifically. It took centuries for the definition of humanity to expand from that perspective.