… told us that we need to then pull ourselves up by our bootstraps for over 400 years. I recognize that this is the 250th anniversary but we've been 400 years. This country has stolen black labor, black lives and black futures. And at every stage our government has sanctioned it. From slavery to Jim Crow to redlining, to mass incarceration, to environmental racism and to economic disenfranchisement. We're still living through those effects today. (06:54–07:03)
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Asserts that the U.S. has stolen black labor, lives, and futures with government sanction.
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