“People really need to ask themselves why their communities chose to erect statues to slaveholders instead of abolitionists. (7/11/2020 on Twitter)” HistorySlaveryAmerican HistoryStatuesUs HistoryAbolitionists Author:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“All of these fanatics were white. They took slavery as a personal insult or affront, a stain upon their name. They had seen women carried off to fancy, or watched as a father was stripped and beaten in front of his child, or seen whole families pinned like hogs into rail-cars, steam-boats, and jails. Slavery humiliated them, because it offended a basic sense of goodness that they believed themselves to possess. And when their cousins perpetrated the base practice, it served to remind them how easily they might do the same. They scorned their barbaric brethren, but they were brethren all the same. So their opposition was a kind of vanity, a hatred of slavery that far outranked any love of the slave.” SlaveryWhitenessAbolitionists Book:The Water Dancer Source: The Water Dancer