Can you find a comparable example of social mobility in American slavery? Did you know Roman freedmen were citizens...
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While black freedmen in, for instance, North Carolina were deprived of the franchise? Did you know New York dropped the property requirement
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For white people but not for blacks? You must understand: American heritable racial caste slavery was, if not exactly unique...
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Truly one of the most dehumanizing and horrific practices of slavery the world has ever seen. It was bad FOR SLAVERY.
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So yes, slavery has existed in various forms for most of human history. But white Americans in particular created an especially evil system
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The effects of which are still felt today, and which white Americans should feel a since of sorrow that it happened and not guilt or shame
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But responsibility and determination to wipe out the remaining aftershocks of this great evil from the face of the earth.
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Not as a shameful secret of the past, but as an active, forward-looking hope to REALLY achieve something unique and special in world history
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Which would be authentically multicultural liberal democracy.
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How exactly do Democrats fight against everything that is America? By supporting abortion rights and formerly being the party of the Klan?
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