Slavery Was The Chains You Can See & Ones You Can't

"I asked my step dad what 'n****r' meant when I was maybe eight or nine years old. I had heard him say it as well as other family members. He told me that a n****r was a man without a nation. Africans had been brought to the Americas and had their whole culture obliterated, such that they have no memory of being African. This means that they can never be trusted by white Americans because they hold no real loyalty.

Reflecting on that as an adult is mind blowing. At the time I remember thinking and feeling how he could hold such disdain for black folk knowing at least that their ancestry could have gone through that and it only opened up my empathy for the black American experience even more."