Obama demanding we have nuance with slave owners is a demand only placed on Black and Native victims and a reminder of how we constantly expected to minimize our trauma so that white people can preserve their heroes and continue their romanticized illusion of America.
He said owning Africans was a deep flaw. Enslaving, brualizing, raping, murdering other humans to make yourself the richest colonizer in the land is not a flaw it is evil.
The part of the story about George Washington that usually gets ignored is that the people who were enslaved by George Washington hated their condition. Harry Washington escaped from slavery to join the British to fight against his former slave owner. Harry later died as a free man in Sierra Leone. Oney Judge also ran away and evaded the attempts which George Washington made to recapture her.
This isn’t a minor contradiction that should be explained away. It represented the reality that Washington and other slaveholders did not respect the humanity of the people that they enslaved because they did not view Black people as being human.
I’m trying to tell you, that $100 million contract came with stipulations. Attack black athletes and attack the Democratic Party. You have questions for Clinton/Obama but Trump made $5-$7 billion in a year.
Idk maybe I'm an uppity Black but I think there's a middle between never saying nigga and calling your child one. My dad says it all the time but *calling me* one, never. Mind you in a lot of Black households calling someone a liar is basically a slur so why wouldn't nigga be
Trump is so obviously racist, but he’s done so much wrong and evil that we just gloss over the fact that he doesn’t call Barack “President Obama”. He intentionally says Hussein as a dog whistle to all his racist followers.
This guy has done so much damage to this country and to the office of presidency. Truly a historic embarrassment.