President Trump Unable to Acknowledge "How Bad Slavery Was"
The ever-outspoken US President Donald Trump recently made statements - which I'm pissed off the likes of Afrocentrists and pan-Africanists - about American slavery. Said statements were issued a coule of months ago, and basically, his argument is that slavery in the United States was not as detrimental or cruel to Blacks as it is usually presented. That's a powerful sentiment for someone so prominent to express publicly, and you would expect some major backlash from the Black community. But I have yet to come across news of any African-American celebrity, besides Spike Lee , addressing the matter. WHAT WAS AMERICAN SLAVERY? My understanding of capitalism is that slavery always exists within such systems, even if not officially. Ideally, regardless of what part of the world you're referring to or what type of socioeconomic system respectively extant, measures would be in place to ensure that workers are not ruthlessly exploited, and said measures woul...