When Black people bring up slavery and we are told to “get over it,” I want to kick every trash can in a ten-mile radius. How can we get over something that still hangs over our heads? No, we can’t “get over slavery.” Are Jewish people over the Holocaust? They have a right to never be, and that took fewer lives than the enslavement of Black people in America. We certainly have the right to still be mad about how much damage slavery and its continued legacy has done. You broke up families. You branded us like cattle. You killed us when we dared to want freedom. You considered us worth
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