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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
I don't care what the percentage is...I am still stuck on the fact that millions were hauled here in the first place and God only knows how many died from those shores to these shores...this is why I even hate discussing this type of stuff because it's always someone trying to minimalize the impact that the Slave trade had...I don't care if it was 1% ...there are still issues that have gone on for 400+ years we still haven't resolved yet.
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DS, I don't think anyone is trying to minimize it. I know I'm not and wouldn't.
Some of us have been responding to a specific question:
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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00
Didn't most white families who lived in America own slaves at some point?
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It's not minimizing the extent of slavery to say that a specific claim is not accurate.
I agree that we haven't resolved all of these issues yet. I'd add that we won't unless we are honest about the history, which means both not minimizing
and not making claims that aren't true historically.