Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.
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Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.
I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.
The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.
White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom '12 Years a Slave' documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations.
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.
White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.
What slavery really demonstrated was that we don't really know how to use energy wisely and that we can be incredibly abusive and barbaric.
You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.
America is haunted by an apparition steeped in slavery, and I wanted to remind everyone that, 'Yo, we've got to handle this.'
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