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Post by FluteHolder Sun Sep 07, 2014 4:18 pm

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/07/opinion/baptist-slavery-book-panned-economist-review/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

Even today, the discrepancy between the descendants of the enslaved and white Americans is huge: In terms of family wealth, white households have almost $15 for every dollar held by African-American ones. The justifications enslavers and their allies offered for what they were doing -- claims that African-Americans were subhuman, that they were lazy, or that they were violent and needed to be "controlled" to prevent black men from rampant anti-white violence -- are still being tossed around in our society.

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