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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know why white people get off work? [/quote]

Do you know why [b]people with no connection to the military get Memorial Day off[/b]…or Veteran’s Day?[/quote]

Memorial Day is to mourn & remember our military members who died serving our country. [/quote]

Enslaved people built our country. [/quote]

No. They didn't.[/quote]

You really need to educate yourself.  Start with a visit to the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture.  It does a fantastic job in clearly laying out how inextricably interwoven slavery was with the economy of this country before the Civil War.  It was THE engine that drove the economy, directly in the south and indirectly in the north.

There is a reason the southern states fought tooth and nail to preserve the institution of slavery -- their wealth and prosperity directly depended on the labor of enslaved human beings.  (And make no mistake, the Civil War was a war to preserve slavery -- it wasn't about "states rights" as many of us were taught.  The South Carolina Declaration of Secession cited "an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery" and the fact that the US government had announced "that a war must be waged against slavery until it shall cease throughout the United States" as grounds for secession.)

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