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The New DU. Reply #6: Unlike the majority of those other American ethnicities, A-Americans were brought here in chains.
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Thu Nov-29-07 03:17 PM
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| 6. Unlike the majority of those other American ethnicities, A-Americans were brought here in chains. |
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And we were among the last in the developed world to recognize another human being cannot be "owned".
There is a long, deep scar on our country because of that.
I think it would be scary to peek into the brain of some "modern citizens" for whom some of the old thinking still resonates. :scared:
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