- cross-posted to:
- 2northamerican4you@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- 2northamerican4you@sh.itjust.works
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1825854/i-mean-she-s-right
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1825854/i-mean-she-s-right
“become” implies it was something else to begin with. it started as a cess pool when it allowed slavery to persist past the declaration of independence.
“We hold these truths to be self evident - that all men are created equal. But when I meet Thomas Jefferson, I’ma compel him to include women in the sequel, work!”.
Man that lyric slapped hard and I’m just now realizing that if it were the N-word, it’d slap hard but be horribly historically inaccurate, as Angelica Schuyler kept many slaves. As did Thomas Jefferson.
Now, Hercules Mulligan, on the other hand…also had slaves. Despite being a founding member of the New York Manumission Society, he also had a slave named Cato who would help him to gather intelligence.
Yes in a weird way, I take heart in knowing that America’s politics have been super fucked up for most of its history. I know that sounds odd but most people I know seem to think things have just suddenly turned bad recently. I think maybe they were born during a brief respite is all. And I do think that with the fuller context, the arc of history bends in the right direction, yes, albeit with famous latency.