>>81888539I talked about this with another anon. I understand why you feel this way but, your take is flawed. The "every race experience slavery" argument,
>>81888572 everyone knows that. But if you take the time to do a research on the transatlantic slave trade, or go the National Museum of African American History and Culture, you'll understand why everyone talks about it so much. It was unbelievably cruel, racialized the idea of slavery, was purposefully set up to make sure later generations would be affected, and led to things like Jim Crow and inequalities.
>Cruel and racialized slavery?https://eji.org/report/transatlantic-slave-trade/
The TAST is one of the largest slave trades in history, and enforced the idea that black people were lesser human. The 3/5 rule, treatment of black people like cattle and property, laws that restricted their freedoms and opportunities even after freedom, manipulation.. The cruelty part should be obvious in how they literally not only whipped black people bloody, but would rape them, even force them to rape each other, force black women to have children just so they could sell them off and separate families, use their body parts to make things like dentures..
>How was it set up to affect later generations, even after Jim Crow?If you ignore the generational trauma and identities stripped from black people, then we can move on to the fact even after slavery, there were still black people who were technically enslaved, or not free. Even the free black people did not have the same opportunity as white people in America. After slavery, what was a former slave supposed to do? They had no connections, no money, no idea how to integrate into society, basically nothing, a lot of them just stayed on their plantations and continued to work and do what they knew. If they did get any jobs, they would take the jobs nobody else wanted.
My typing limit is running out but I'll explain the rest of your stuff
