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Originally Posted by packs
It's a talking point because it forces Americans to confront their identity as a country. Can you be the home of the free and the brave if the Civil Rights act needs to be passed to guarantee freedoms? Can your declaration of independence, and a declaration that all men are created equal, reflect reality if a large portion of your population does not have equal rights?
Then there's World Wars 1 and 2, where large portions of the population fought for ideas of freedom and against tyranny only to return to a country where they weren't allowed to drink out of a water fountain, for example.
It gets talked about a lot because for a long time it wasn't talked about at all.
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It's also being talked about a lot now because of how much hate and divisiveness has been increasing in recent years. Depending who you talk to, slavery is either a painful legacy that continues to be harmful, or a dredged-up political tool used by the far-left to make white people feel bad.
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