It is actually no different if you say that African-Americans are in a disadvantaged position in society because they are genetically inferior to all other people; or if you say that they are disadvantaged because of the residual effects of slavery…either way, you are saying that they lack the normal human capacity to cope, strive,…
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When Frederick Douglass spent time in Ireland in 1845, upon seei…
When Frederick Douglass spent time in Ireland in 1845, upon seeing the conditions of Irish peasants, he was stunned by their deprivation; “a board on a box for a table, rags on straw for a bed, and a picture of the crucifixion on the wall.” It reminded him of the conditions he saw in slave…