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Dream Girl

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6. It galls me that generations of Europeans have migrated here and this has become "their" country

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 20, 2020, 03:17 PM

Jun 2020

This country was built on the backs of our ancestors...400 years. It makes me so angry. Someone like Trump and his ilk who is only second generationS views themselves as real Americans..They get you enjoy the spoils of our labor and we suffer generation after generation

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last night I watched documentaries on Thurgood Marshall and Emmit Till [View all] SiliconValley_Dem Jun 2020 OP

PBS also running the docs. Saw Thurgood doc on PBS. empedocles Jun 2020 #1

This country got rich from the unpaid labor of slaves The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2020 #2

yes. to me, the vile attitudes about people if color are still there in many SiliconValley_Dem Jun 2020 #3

How much of those "riches" moondust Jun 2020 #4

Probably most of it, although a lot would have been lost during the Depression. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2020 #5

It galls me that generations of Europeans have migrated here and this has become "their" country Dream Girl Jun 2020 #6

I had a great uncle that was a Black mortician In San Francisco In the early 20th century kimbutgar Jun 2020 #7