Is this also done to help divide us? Stayed have been taken down and having months set aside to celebrate these two groups, seems to me to make people question why must a set time be for celebrating this. Why can’t all months be for celebrating everything? There is no white history month.
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I hope they include these little known facts:
The first legal slave owner in America was black:
https://photos.brighteon.com/file/brighteon-thumbnails/poster/a9b20cc4-ee9f-4c3f-bf91-37c7dc6f6e8c
Black slave owners in the United States owned white and black slaves.
The census of 1830 lists 965 free black slave owners in Louisiana, owning 4,206 slaves. The state of South Carolina, lists 464 free blacks owning 2,715 Black and White slaves. How ironic it is that so many blacks owned so many slaves in South Carolina. Yet, no one seemed to mention this during the flag controversy. Black people owned White people. https://www.ironbarkresources.com/slaves/whiteslaves05.htm
What is Modern Slavery?
Forced labor in Sub-Saharan Africa is estimated at 660,000. This includes people involved in the illegal diamond mines of Sierra Leone and Liberia, which is also a direct result of the civil wars in these regions.