Whites often say Black people are dependent (on govt, etc). But if you have a direct ancestor who was an enslaver, you owe your LIFE to Black restraint. Had they killed your relative to get free (which they were morally entitled to do) you wouldn't exist. Who's the dependent one?
And yes, it would have been moral for any enslaved person to kill their captor. Would have been true for Ariel Castro's victims a decade or so ago, and true for those kidnapped and held in chattel bondage for 250+ years...
And this isn't even getting into how dependent white folks (and America on the whole) have been on Black labor, etc to even build the nation, obviously. I was just wanting to make the existential point because we often miss it
And yes, I realize this point is only true if the enslaver had been killed before parenting whatever child you were then descended from...but you get my point.
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