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https://twitter.com/UjuAnya/status/1567863337991512064
The replies as you can guess are simply horrible. Crackers going on about civility and defending colonialism.
https://www.heraldguide.com/news/research-shows-slaves-remained-on-killona-plantation-until-1970s/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/437573/blacks-were-enslaved-well-into-the-1960s
This is how the town's museum narrates what happened. https://scphistory.org/killona-town-history/
"Life on the Waterford Plantation sugar operation in the 1940s remains a vivid memory for many area residents, such as Leona Picard of Luling. Picard, known to Waterford workers as “Miss Dickie,” was married to the late William Richard “Dick” Picard, the company bookkeeper. “We loved living on the plantation.” she recalled. There were more than 20 small houses for employees, many built by Wilson Brady, and those live-on employees received free rent, water, electricity and a stipend for use of an automobile. “We were well taken care of.”"
At this point with their voting history, the "progressives" have the same foreign policy as a run of the mill warmonger politician
I don't care if you didn't know they were evil. Anyone who worked for a MIC can die for all I care. You just don't excuse the death of brown people because "I didn't know" fuck that shit.