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History for us is not a fucking "What if" game. We know what if. My ancestors lived it. What if for us meant not just servitude. It meant slavery. That meant massah could split up families and sell children or parents at will. That meant we could be beaten, tortured, raped and murdered. That meant that if massah took a liking to a black woman, any woman -- wife, mother, 10-year-old daughter, twins, anyone -- he could have her. He could use her and have his friends use her. Challenge that and you would be beaten or killed.
Gee, I wonder how many inventions and discoveries and works of art YOUR version of history would have cost the world.
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