You’re right. They weren’t trafficked. It used to be acceptable de jure to just kill them here up until the late 1800s and de facto into at least the 1950s.
I agree this is a backslide from the civil rights advancements of the latter half of the 20th century.
It’s pretty normal if you draw a line connecting civil rights from 1776 to 2025. The USA absolutely still exists, and among them are the descendants of the people who cheered on presidents like Andrew Jackson. It’s been an authoritarian regime for most people. We just got a nice little break sometime after 1960. The current kerfuffle is about the middle class (part of the working class) potentially getting sucked into the oppression. I don’t mean this in a hopeless way. I believe the US can pull it together and restore the national spirit that once told monarchists that they can take their authoritarianism and shove it, but it absolutely needs to include any American this time, not just the ownership class.
You’re right. They weren’t trafficked. It used to be acceptable de jure to just kill them here up until the late 1800s and de facto into at least the 1950s.
I agree this is a backslide from the civil rights advancements of the latter half of the 20th century.
It’s pretty normal if you draw a line connecting civil rights from 1776 to 2025. The USA absolutely still exists, and among them are the descendants of the people who cheered on presidents like Andrew Jackson. It’s been an authoritarian regime for most people. We just got a nice little break sometime after 1960. The current kerfuffle is about the middle class (part of the working class) potentially getting sucked into the oppression. I don’t mean this in a hopeless way. I believe the US can pull it together and restore the national spirit that once told monarchists that they can take their authoritarianism and shove it, but it absolutely needs to include any American this time, not just the ownership class.