re: #222 HappyWarrior

Or that Africans sold the Europeans the slaves. American slavery was based on white supremacy and the proponents of it didn’t hide that fact in slavery’s lifetime.

all of which is incidental and meaningless to the fundamental problem
in the united states, slavery was institutionalized, enforced, by the states and federal government.

it was state sponsored
all the way through the civil rights movement
and still is today in many ways