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ssully on Aug 14, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The 1619 Project

I suppose I just don't see the difference between the two. I guess I could see how one could say slavery existed because of the racist systems and policies, but I just don't think the article needs to make that distinction since they are so intertwined.

mieseratte on Aug 14, 2019 [–]

> since they are so intertwined.

They're simply different things, slavery doesn't imply racism though the US system was almost entirely on racial lines.

Either way there's a broken situation that needs fixed.

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