• Totalscrotalimplosio [he/him,any]
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      4 years ago

      This is one step away from "slavery is actually good for us because we don't know how to run our lives without kind master".

        • Totalscrotalimplosio [he/him,any]
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          4 years ago

          I mean white people could have done more after freeing enslaved people but ... yeah. Most insidious part of slavery/racism in the US is how entrenched the dynamics are in our own heads. It takes a lot of work to break out of that and if you don't have a lot of good visible examples then you can easily get stuck in it.

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          they should read Eric Foner's Reconstruction or watch Matt's series of videos discussing it

        • Norm_Chumpsky [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          The only helpful instructions would have been: “take this free land you deserve.”

        • lilpissbaby [any]
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          4 years ago

          from an idealistic, liberal mindset this makes a lot of sense. obviously the actual good idea would've been giving former enslaved people property and other material means to have a dignified life, education, etc.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          4 years ago

          the white man not giving the slaves direct instructions on what to do after they were freed to be successful

          Literally what Jim Crow was for.

          Just a legion of plantation owners screaming "Get back in line!"