William Earl administratorIn one extended sequence of the 2017 documentary “Angry, White, and American,” Black British journalist Gary Younge faces off with alt-right leader Richard Spencer, who, at one point, says, “Look at the life of any African American living in the United States.
It’s far better than any African living in Africa.”Translation: Slavery was good. His words are a thinly veiled justification for Black bondage and a warning to Black Americans to be grateful for how good they’ve had it here.
Spencer is saying that by enslaving Black Africans and bringing them to the New World back in the 1600s, White Americans and Europeans were saving them from “a world of dread and fear,” to quote the overarching presentation of the.
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