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dantheclamman @lemmy.world

11mo ago

White People Have Never Forgiven Haitians for Claiming Their Freedom

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White People Have Never Forgiven Haitians for Claiming Their Freedom

Edit: Fellow white people, please read the article before just reading the title and reflexively commenting to make it about yourselves, thx

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Oh shit, we haven't? Do I... do I have to start saying stuff about eating pets?
- And here I thought I agreed with the Haitians, and thought that people like John Brown did nothing wrong...
  Turns out I'm Big Mad?
- Britain required former slaves to work for 2 years unpaid before they were free to go post abolition. Slave owners received £17bn in today's money in reparations.
- The United States actually paid reparations to slavers. We paid slavers in DC the equivalent of $9000 per slave.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compensated_emancipation
- Not all white people...
- Gotta make an example out of 'em or all our people who are "property" in the USA might get ideas. /s but not really, that was the thinking.
Nothing like a little racism to point out some other racism
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