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2026-05-14 04:24 UTC

You’re telling one part of the story and one that erases those that struggled against all of that. Their story includes the fight for civil rights, equality, and freedom from slavery and oppression.

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@TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 2026-05-14 04:49

The story of abolition or the civil rights movement is not the story of America, even though the bourgeois establishment may have tried to tame MLK Jr. posthumously. All concessions given to labor were for the bourgeoisie to maintain its power, not out of any change of heart. If they thought they could get away with maintaining slavery they would - oh wait, they do, it’s called the prison system.

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@frisbird@lemmy.ml 2026-05-14 13:48

The civil rights movement of the 60s you mean? Those aren’t our ancestors. They are our oldest contemporaries. Some of them are still alive today. Our ancestors are the the 500 years of European settlers that brought genocide and chattel slavery and systematized rape to this land. The people who fought against those things are the ultra minority. John Brown was hung for treason while the Confederate leaders were given statues and their names were given to university buildings and streets.

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