@jmart272@lauren_w67 Not all forms of slavery were identical, and what matters is how recent the policies were and how they shaped institutions afterward. Jim Crow ended within living memory. Are you slow?
@rfcwwide@lauren_w67 If poverty and violence were just about mindset, poor communities across every race and every country would disappear once people were told to ‘stop acting like victims.’ Reality is more complicated than that.
@ichakike@EdenMourns@lauren_w67 Pretending history and systems have zero impact isn’t realistic. Communities improve when people hold each other accountable and when there’s access to opportunity, safety, education, stable housing, and investment. Reducing it to ‘just stop being bad’ ignores how a lot of layers