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Re: House poised to apologize for slavery, Jim Crow

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Hmmm. Hafke clearly understands what she said. I clearly understand what Hafke said. Hafke clearly agrees with my interpretation.

Your mind reading skills aren't as good as you think they are.
No mind reading skills are needed.

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Slavery is not responsible for the problems facing black people in the US right now. If it was, any group that had been discriminated against at the time would be complete failures now.
It's painfully obvious that she's saying that if slavery was a factor in black dysfunctionality then any group that had been discriminated against would be failures, which is to conflate slavery with discrimination.
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Re: House poised to apologize for slavery, Jim Crow

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No mind reading skills are needed.


It's painfully obvious that she's saying that if slavery was a factor in black dysfunctionality then any group that had been discriminated against would be failures, which is to conflate slavery with discrimination.
It's painfully obvious that you're only point is to stick with a single line in a single post and ignore the rest of her posts. She clarified your confusion. You chose to ignore it.
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