Can I say this? That Marsha Blackburn - R - Tenn is an asshole

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91. When race "was written into our laws"

we were a British colony, so Britain was the country that developed the laws. Read about the development of slavery in 17th century Virginia. But prior to that, African slavery was made legal, in contrast to Indigenous slavery, throughout Spanish and Portuguese America. Reading a high school US history text book doesn't teach you about the history outside the US. I pointed to some sources for you to read if you want to inform yourself.

If you don't think words matter, why even mention laws? Why read a book or comment on this message board? Or are the only words that don't matter the ones that denigrate women? People call women names like the poster above does, while simultaneously participating in a culture that perpetrates rape, domestic violence, and modern day slavery. The majority of those 6 million people too poor for health care are women and children, and the same cultural impulse that denigrates them as nothing more than body parts for male sexual use is the same that keeps them in poverty. Justifying treating people as inferior is exactly how poverty and inequality are perpetrated.