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Dear black people in America still talking about slavery,
Here's the real problem. You think your slavery was special.
That's why liberation from the shackles of your mind @RealCandaceO and @kanyewest are offering bothers you
And you'd rather feel special than be #FreeThinkers
Here's the real problem. You think your slavery was special.
That's why liberation from the shackles of your mind @RealCandaceO and @kanyewest are offering bothers you
And you'd rather feel special than be #FreeThinkers
But the enslavement of your ancestors, while atrocious, and utterly and absolutely crimes against humanity, WAS NOT SPECIAL. There are between 21 and 46 million people enslaved worldwide, right now, as you sit arguing on Twitter.
An estimated 800,000 human beings are traded as slaves across international boarders every single year. To put that into perspective, in the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade (1525-1866) about 388,000 human beings were brought from Africa to North America as slaves.
