I Was Bamboozled Into Slavery By Racial Reckoning
The post-George Floyd racial reckoning in America was forged in the fires of generational frustration and boomeranged into a weapon of crass destruction, igniting passionate political actions in all quadrants of the country, and especially in the South. Yet, viewing slavery-related racial reckoning as a mostly Southern Problem while glazing over the history of slavery and racial injustice in the North and specifically in Brooklyn, NY, is a mistake. I say that from an experience that still makes me feel angry and embarrassed. America has a greasy history of slavery, racism, stolen land, and discrimination. The reckoning of those grave injustices--injustices on which the economic power of this country is built--is overdue. However, a large swath of White Americans refuses to reconcile the position of the United States in the world with the economic advantages created by chattel slavery. Take away those economic advantages that the brutal system of chattel slavery gave to the United State
