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Message: <blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4638726" data-attributes="member: 66082">This is nonsense.  Clearly when discussing slavery in the context of America, I am talking about American slavery and American slavery was created by American society.  America could have stopped the slavery that existed before it became a nation but it choose instead to accommodate and legalize it.The idea that American slavery is the fault of one political party is pure nonsense, as I pointed out the people who enshrined American slavery into the constitution were not democrats or republicans at that time, as I also pointed out every segment of this society was impacted by American slavery, and all American institutions supported anti-black racism.  These are all objective facts.  That is beyond one political party.  I hold no affinity for the democratic party as an institution as a party.</blockquote>