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On March 1, 1669, eight lord proprietors of the Carolina colony granted every white person the “absolute power and authority over his negro slaves.” Seven months later, the Virginia Colonial Assembly passed a law that gave enslavers the right to murder the Africans who resisted their authority. An enslaved woman was 750 times more likely to be raped (58%) than to be set free (3,000 out of 3.9 million in 1860).

Most of the Founding Fathers and every single one of the first 12 presidents (including the Adamses) participated in America’s race-based, constitutionally protected, violence-enforced human chattel system. Not only did the U.S. Constitution legalize slavery, but Congress passed laws that essentially made every American a part-time slave catcher. When one million white men took up arms against their country to fight for slavery in 1860, there were more slave owners (383,637) than white people fighting slavery (255,000).

While a Pew Research poll would likely find a very low approval rating for slavery, most Americans don’t know the details of this country’s involvement in perpetuating centuries of institutional rape, murder and violence against Black Americans. That’s why the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture exists—to teach these uncomfortable truths with the hope that the combination of discomfort and knowledge will motivate them to make America a more perfect union.

But, like most gangbangers, criminals and descendants of degenerate murderers and rapists who get the heebie jeebies in history class, Donald Trump doesn’t appreciate anyone throwing dirt on his OGs’ names.

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