I’m going bold today. I know it’s risky to broadcast certain beliefs in the midst of the Trump Restoration and its assault on history, but I’m just going to say it anyway, because, dammit, it’s time to take a stand.

Here goes (and if this means that I’m on the way to what’s left of Alligator Alcatraz, so be it):

Slavery was, uh, bad.

There, I’ve said it. And not just bad. Slavery was really, really bad. Godawful bad. Morally and ethically and every-other-wayically bad. As John Quincy Adams — one of our pre-WOKE presidents — wrote in the early 19th century, chattel slavery was “a great and foul stain” on our nation.

Yeah, that bad — extending to the point where bad is not just bad, but indisputably evil.

Evil enough that we had to fight a whole Civil War to rid ourselves of centuries o

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