A brief history of how the rich world brutalized and looted Haiti, a country the US owes its very existence to

[Wanderfound]

@AnthonyC

So yeah… maybe when we get to the early- to mid-2400s we’ll be right to claim that no one’s circumstances are the result of slavery and Jim Crow.

…assuming that we actually bring an end to slavery and Jim Crow in the meantime.

The New Jim Crow

[GagHalfrunt]

@Brainspore

We keep treating slavery like ancient history—imagining that enough time has passed that no person living today could reasonably blame their present-day circumstances on the practice.

Meanwhile John Tyler, tenth President of the United States and owner of 70 slaves, still has two living grandchildren.

Wikipedia | National Museum of African American History and Culture

On September 24, 2016, President Barack Obama formally opened the new museum along with four generations of the Bonner family, from 99-year-old Ruth Bonner, who is the daughter of Elijah B. Odom of Mississippi, an escaped slave, down to Ruth’s great-granddaughter Christine

[FGD135]

Now that would be a crowdfounded project I would back.
And not with just pocket change either.