There are some fantastic recordings on YouTube of actual slaves. If you get a few seconds and want to go down a rabbit hole, you should give them a listen. Like most things, it's not black and white. Some slaves thought their masters were cruel and abusive, and others thought they were kind. One thing is certain to me, the man who recorded these slaves (in the 1930s), had an epiphany that he speaks about in the following video. An old black man tells him, "You still have the disease... you think you can give me my rights, but I was born with those. You can deprive me of them, but you can't give them to me." This is how I feel about the progressive position on race. They are still trying to give black people their rights instead of just acknowledging they have them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZfcc21c6Uo

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