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Explain Like I'm Five

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[–] justaman123@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

It's our legacy of slavery, by creating such an impoverished underclass with no dignity during chattel slavery it made the lowest rung lower even when slavery was over. We never finished reconstruction on a social level so if you have no money you matter even less.