We must never forget that the lion’s share of people of African descent living in this country had ancestors that were seized from their homeland and stripped of the core parts of their identities: kinship ties, links to a tribe, language, and so on. That they suffered a hellish journey. That when they reached the shores of what became America, they became something less than human—legally—and were deprived of the most important things that made them, them. We must never lose sight of the fact that this torture went on for hundreds of years, until the end of the Civil War, and even beyond it
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