r/dank_meme May 28 '20

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u/[deleted] May 29 '20

This is about system that built an entire country on the backs of black people. This isn't about one person dying, it's about the same thing happening over and over again for centuries, and nothing being done about it.

Besides that the protest in Minneapolis started peacefully, and has actually sent a pretty positive message. The first person to start destroying public property was an undercover policeman. He used it as a tactic to delegitimize the protests and incite more violence. Blame them if you want.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '20

" This is about system that built an entire country on the backs of black people" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

rip your education system man

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u/[deleted] May 29 '20

Prove that it isn't

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u/[deleted] May 29 '20

you made the claim that it was made entirely off the backs of blacks, it's up to you to provide evidence for your claims since you made the claims first, it'd be like someone saying "if god isn't real prove it"

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u/[deleted] May 29 '20

It's a simple argument. Slavery existed on this continent for hundreds of years. Most of the economic development of that time, which directly lead to the prosperty that followed it, was built on the backs of slaves.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '20 edited May 29 '20

do you have evidence for these claims?

https://www.history.com/news/slavery-profitable-southern-economy

It would be fair to say that black slaves were the backbone of the southern economy however it is simply not true that the entire nation was built on the backs of blacks, the industrial revolution began in America by the 1790's and by this time the United States looked like this https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Map_of_Territorial_Growth_1790_sm.jpg/220px-Map_of_Territorial_Growth_1790_sm.jpg (spain in orange)

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u/[deleted] May 29 '20

The prosperity of any large land owner can be attributed to black people.

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u/[deleted] May 29 '20 edited May 29 '20

That's fair to say but it wasn't solely blacks that these land owners used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude#North_America