This country wasn't built for persons of color. Keyword: FOR
As opposed to BY. This is an important distinction. One short word is replaced with another short word, and the meaning immediately becomes the polar opposite.
Who built the White House and the Capitol building again?
Whose brutally, cruelly, and horrifically exploited unpaid slave labor was the very FOUNDATION of the economy and society ("way of life"
of the Southern United States even before they were States - not to mention, much of the rest of the country, and indirectly, the entire country?
Who contributed so much - one might argue, the lion's share - to the development of the popular culture of the United States?
And who, to this day, still hasn't been compensated for everything they've done for this country, everything they've literally sacrificed under what can only be described as conditions that are appallingly destructive to the body and the spirit - yet in spite of this, have achieved (and continue to achieve) utterly astounding things under those very conditions (conditions that again, continue in this day and age)?
This country wasn't built for persons of color. But in oh so many ways, it was built BY persons of color. Never forget that truth. No one can tell you otherwise - and if they do, they're bullshitting in the worst way possible.
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