And the When we decide to be a country founded on both slavery and freedom, we justify that by

dehumanizing black people and by saying that they're not like other human beings.

Therefore, when we brutalize them, when we rape them, when we kill them, we exploit their bodies for profit,

we don't really have to feel that bad about it because they don't love like us.

So when I sell this mother's child, she doesn't feel what I feel.

She feels like what a dog would feel with the puppy being gone.

She'll forget about her child the next day, which is literally what they would tell these women, right?

To create a system like that and then add emancipation, say, actually you're fully human just like the rest of us.

You cannot because the whole lie that upheld the system was that we weren't.

And so each generation passes on that knowledge that black people are deserving of our

fate, we are deserving of a reality because we are not fully human like them.

We don't even have to have anyone explicitly say it.

It is in the fiber of our country.

It is the lie that hides our hypocrisy.

Nicole Hannah Jones is a certified genius, a spiritual warrior, and a journalist who's trying

to change America.

She's the spirit behind the 1619 project

at the New York Times, which was a takeover

of the New York Times magazine,

as well as an incredible podcast series, as well as an upcoming series of books and

articles, all of which are meant to help us further understand the way that

slavery and its long lingering effects have shaped so many aspects of America so widely and so deeply

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