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Uponthegears

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2. $60 trillion

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 08:59 PM

Feb 2016

Minimum

Doesn't include the utter destruction of the social fabric of dozens upon dozens of cultures of origin.

Doesn't include 100+ years of overt institutional racism.

Doesn't include 70+ years of economic racism.

Doesn't include almost 6 centuries of using the criminal justice system as surrogate plantations where subjugation disenfranchisement and execution are the prime objective.

Need I go on?

THANK YOU for the OP

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Slavery helped build nation, fueled its most divisive war and still torments it [View all] struggle4progress Feb 2016 OP

this needs to be repeated everywhere KT2000 Feb 2016 #1

+1 Uponthegears Feb 2016 #3

$60 trillion Uponthegears Feb 2016 #2