I am going to be honest naturally when I first heard the news of this I was DISGUSTED. When I read further into it, I had a recollection something I had not thought about and perhaps even repressed. I am a 30 year old woman who grew up in NEW YORK, I vividly remember being taught in history class that black people brought to the United States “Where better off here’, than in Africa. And that when slaves were freed a lot of them “preferred to stay at their plantation”. TRULY as a white woman who actively practices anti racism I am haunted by this.

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