FB bans 'dangerous' individuals

[Athene]

We all know those members of Congress are long dead, Boru.

But the system of white supremacy that permitted slavery continued to turn the screws by enacting sadistic, thoroughly racist policies that were explicitly designed give tremendous advantage to whites and to cement blacks as a permanent underclass until the early 1970's.

This notion that slavery just kind of "happened" to the US, and that the driving force behind it no longer exists is insane.

The narrative here seems to be "That's all in past". My counter-narrative is that the past is nowhere near as distant as some folks believe it to be.
My own parents' formative years and early adulthood was spent living under the thumb of Jim Crow.

I don't disagree that your government has been shockingly racist, not am I attempting to excuse racism or slavery.  I agree that government institutions have a long and shameful history of perpetuating institutional racism.  I don't for a minute imagine that racism vanished in a puff of good feelings in 1865.

But don't the same government institutions that normalized slavery deserve at least some credit for ending it, particularly given the heavy public opposition to doing so?

Boru

IDK.

Does a rapist deserve "credit" when they stop sexually violating you, yet happily follow you around town while slapping you upside the head and generally making your life HELL in other ways?

Lol..Not really, IMO.