We’ve gotta stop saying the USA was founded on ideals of freedom when that’s simply untrue. The white colonizers who founded this nation did not invent the idea of freedom & they wrote slavery into the Constitution & the organization of the gov’t...
...Many of them were slaveholders who engaged in rape, genocide & human trafficking. Each time we repeat this myth about the founding of the USA we are erasing the humanity of Black & Indigenous people past & present. It’s OK to deal in historical truth. https://mobile.twitter.com/BreeNewsome/status/1335945346141343745
We can acknowledge that this nation was founded as a series of slave colonies. That’s not incompatible with the ongoing pursuit of freedom & democracy. In fact, to constantly deny this reality only serves to delay the birth of a true democracy.
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