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My campaign sent out an email today that acknowledged the millions of Black people who& #39;ve been murdered. In reply, we received this. Slaves are referenced as "valuable property" & we& #39;re accused of "gross exaggeration". Sent by a member of the Democratic State Executive Committee.
The wording of the email was "I& #39;m thinking about the literal millions of Black men and women who& #39;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& #39;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& #39;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& #39;s only been hours since the Chauvin ruling and it& #39;s as clear as ever that we have so much more work to do.
Here& #39;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)">https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-r...
"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)">https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-r...
"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,">https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-r... we& #39;re at over a million and that& #39;s not even counting Jim Crow, police killings, and all the other ways Black people have been "slaughtered" in our history.
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-resource/historical-context-facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery
Mike,">https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-r... we& #39;re at over a million and that& #39;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
*Sent by member of the Wake County SEC
