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Re:Stripe bans Trump campaign by randompwd on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:03AM (#25746244)
I agree with your comment for the most part. But this line is pretty misleading:

> the one we created when we kidnapped millions of people in Africa and stripped them of their original culture

Nobody was kidnapped. Individuals were bought from already-existing African slave trade markets(markets which had been run by and for Africans (and Arabs), preceding any European commercial relationship.)

Although you may have used the term kidnapping liberally (& with some artistic license), it is fundamentally not true & very misleading.

In Africa, buying and selling slaves was widespread at the time.

I think the treatment of African slaves(& their descendants) in America is bad enough without having to exaggerate the origin.

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