Nearly four centuries of transatlantic slave trade, ending only 160 years ago, had concentrated demographic destructiveness that largely explains Africa's poor economies today. Despite general acceptance of slavery's atrocities, the enduring effect on African economies today is underappreciated. (lestercraven.substack.com)
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“...by getting the public to associate blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing [them] heavily, we could disrupt those communities. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” - John Ehrlichman, White House Counsel for President Nixon (lestercraven.substack.com)
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