My campaign sent out an email today that acknowledged the millions of Black people who've been murdered. In reply, we received this. Slaves are referenced as "valuable property" & we're accused of "gross exaggeration". Sent by a member of the Democratic State Executive Committee.

The wording of the email was "I'm thinking about the literal millions of Black men and women who've been murdered, who were lynched and slaughtered with disregard, and never had their day in court, let alone a just ruling."

I am the descendant of slaves. I grew up hearing stories from my great-grandfather, the child of slaves, about the Jim Crow South. I am the mother of Black sons. I'm not asking you to "believe it." I am speaking my truth. I am speaking OUR truth.

They were not "destroying valuable property", they were killing us. Over a million Black people were killed just on the voyage to these shores! It is exactly as bad as I'm saying it was and as a Black woman who has been to too many funerals in my own time, it is bad now too.

Look at this email. Look at the murder of the 15-year-old girl in Ohio, who seeking safety, was killed by those sworn to protect her. It's only been hours since the Chauvin ruling and it's as clear as ever that we have so much more work to do.

Here's some "serious data":
"12.5 million slaves were shipped from Africa, and 10.7 million arrived in the Americas...About 12 percent of those who embarked did not survive the voyage." ( https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-resource/historical-context-facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery)

"Half of all slave infants died in their first year of life."
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-resource/historical-context-facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery

Mike, we're at over a million and that's not even counting Jim Crow, police killings, and all the other ways Black people have been "slaughtered" in our history.

Oh, and the grammar was correct too.

*Sent by member of the Wake County SEC