• Dojan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And unsurprisingly they found ways to keep their slaves until it was properly outlawed in the 1940s, not because it was the right thing to do, but because the administration feared that the US treatment of black people would be used in propaganda against them.

    I’d say “stay classy” but the US has never been classy in its short but bloody history.