This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. America's original sin, slavery, racism, I'm going to say America's original sin is hypocrisy.

America's original sin is saying one thing and doing another. It is saying we hold these truths

to be self-evident that all men are created equal while the people that pin those very

words help people in bondage, raped children.

That there were these notions of freedom and liberty

and justice for all while you designated human beings

that you knew were human beings for the purpose of power and building an

empire. You building an empire.

You build an empire on the backs of human beings

that you purposefully denigrated for the sole purpose of profit.

The original sin of America,

hypocrisy.

So I'm reading this book that I got from Busta Sorees. It's called Black Fortunes by Samari

Wells. It is an amazing book and I love it because it is a story of all of these

African Americans, all of these black people who were born in

bondage but yet went on to become millionaires and we never hear these stories.

These are people we've never heard of before. I heard of Annie Malone, she's the only

person that I've ever you know that I've known before I heard of Annie Malone. She's the only person that I've ever, you know,

that I've known before I read this book.

But the rest, I'm like floored because, you know,

the narrative is that, you know, the people that were here before

who were in bondage were all, you know, downtrodden.

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