Now, I don't know how any of you interpret that, but it's pretty plain to me it's not something that's abolishing slavery. It's just moving slavery from one place to another. And a quick side note on that that Juneteenth amendment was ratified in the Constitution around 1865, and maybe less than 30 years later, Department of Corrections was born in the United States, and black people have been the majority nationally in the prison system ever since. Now, is that a coincidence?
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:40
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Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 1:18
I really don't know how to answer the question you posed. And I am the kind of person who tries to learn from the past but tries to look forward to a future that is better than the past was. And if we can make the future better for future generations, then everything that people struggle for in the past and everything that they died for will hopefully be for something that emerged finally, better for the future. Within that spirit
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:40
So the other thing I did want to talk about is I feel that the people holding the power were smart enough to conveniently conspire with the media to control the narrative that has been circulated all along. The false narrative that, yes, we respect diversity and we are self reflecting on the dark moments of slavery or colonization that's the narrative that the media maintains, while the reality is something completely different. Right
Mtwadamela Ijogo
@Mtwadamela · 3:49
Wow. Well, you both make some really good points, but, you know, as far as the way I look at it, about the Confederate flag and the symbols, the other symbols, the statues representing Confederate soldiers. To me, that's irrelevant. And it's hypocritical because when the United States enslaved my ancestors, they did that under the American flag, not the Confederate flag
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 3:16
But there's not much thought put into, like why it was wrong and how it cannot. It shouldn't be repeated ever again. I truly believe that the future is our children, right? Our children are the future