“Greatness” is not a word I’d ever use to describe a slave owner.
But it’s easy to have these cold, totally theoretical conversations when the slaves in question were not your ancestors.
It’s easy to talk this way when the impacts of chattel slavery, a failed Reconstruction, Jim Crow, redlining & convict leasing don’t manifest in your actual life because you’re Kenyan/white rather than #ADOS.
American Descendants of Slavery know what we lost when our family was ran off farms. When our ancestors had their labor stolen. We listen to elders speak on how the KKK burned crosses in their yards. And we listen as inheritors of that legacy of plunder—that began with slavery—not just as analytical bystanders or disinterested spectators.
Lineage really does matter.
@MonopoliPsignz@Ch_az_1@therobbieharvey Because he thinks like a member of one those cannibal lynch mobs from Jim Crow era America. He thinks we supposed to just let people kill and maim us while making up excuse for why we deserved it.
@Ch_az_1@therobbieharvey What does metcalf have to do with mowing down children getting in the bus. A school bus that you not supposed to pass. A school bis with a whole ass STOP sign on the side of it. These are not questions to be answered. This highlights your fucking stupidity while showing you y we