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When U.S. Senators Freely Submitted a Bill to Send Blacks Back to Africa as Slaves
Yes, I got upset and posted a comment that I’m modifying and reprinting here. Studying this history of black repression stuff as a white man can be painful and aggravating. The reaction of the blacks sometimes should be more open and outraged, I think when I read recent history. How can these things occur so horrifically in plain view in Congress? This instance is an outrage of the recent past, the Worst White Generation.
I’m talking of S. 2231. I began reading this for some reason, really just perusing it. I have yet to go back and read it again in detail, as even breezing it “lightly” enflamed me. “S” stands for Senate Bill number 2231. (This link takes you to the government document on the government printing offices archives — the bill goes from page 31–41, with each column as one page.) A vile, anti-American piece of legislation if there ever was one. So, sit down. Because after just skimming it, I said to myself: How can anyone NOT think America is not systemically racist at the highest levels? How can such anti-American filth who introduced it be allowed to serve a country they don’t believe in?
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S. 2231, the Senate bill introduced April 24, 1939, laid out in excruciating legal detail just how the United States would engage in buying 400,000 square miles of territory from France and Britain in Africa, which were to be annexed to Greater Liberia a settlement for American blacks. The President (of the US)…