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."

What Being A Republican Means To Me

I'll Take My Friends Of 27 Years, Over You Losers, Too

I love all these Mandela "fuck you" stories appearing now:

"The city of Miami had been preparing an official welcome for the South African hero. But when Mayor Xavier Suarez, later joined by four other Cuban-American mayors, demanded that Mandela denounce Castro as the price of welcome, Mandela loyally refused.

The proclamations were rescinded. The Cuban-American leadership withdrew from all appearances and ceremonies.

The great Nelson Mandela had been snubbed in Miami."

People with no sense - and especially no sense of loyalty - deserve none,...