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Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by eropple on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:35AM (#28088600)
For those not in the United States: this is (and I assume the spittle-flecking about "kneeling to BLM" made this a tip for some people, but let's make the implicit part explicit) a very common point of rhetoric amongst slavery apologists and Lost Causers of many stripes.

The idea of permission structures for white Americans being somehow erected because some ethnic groups and communities sold people from other ethnic groups and communities (because, and I apologize if this is obvious to some readers, the compaction of people of African descent into "African-American" is, for obvious reasons, something here and not there) is one of a set of apologetics in common use in the United States designed to erase the complicity of our forebears.

Good luck to BlackOakTV. I look forward to seeing what happens next for you all.

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