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Katherine Franke
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"There's a difference between being freed and being free... As soon as the institution of slavery was abolished, white legislators and white society implemented a range of measures that weren't slavery but came pretty darn close." wpr.org/changing-fight… #reparations 1/4
Black people were freed into a society that still hated them, still saw them as not fully human and inferior to white people. #reparations 2/4
We never really had a reckoning with what it would have meant to welcome freed people into society as equals, to give them the material resources required for them to actually be free people in society. #reparations 3/4
Read more in Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition from @haymarketbooks #reparations 4/4
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