If we as a country need to have this cultural reckoning; this come to Jesus moment about our history, then it cannot be revised, edited, or watered down to suit your needs. Let’s speak truth. African tribes were an integral part of the Atlantic Slave Trade...

Freed blacks owned slaves. Whites from England and Ireland were slaves in America. The Comanche Indians of the Texas Plains were some of the most prolific slave owners and traders of the 19th Century.

History is the story of humans generally being shitty to one another. It’s the story of conquest, subjugation, war, and forced baptism. We cannot move forward by singling out one group of people and laying the blame at their feet for the atrocities of all time. We learn, we grow.