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I'm going to ramble.

Of course they were; I mean in every facet certainly there was GROSS oppression; not just in the USA, but in every nation whereto black slaves were brought. In Haiti, Africans after overthrowing French slaveowners established a nation, and in their revolt they destroyed ALL of their infrastructure in red blooded anger, but still won a legitimate military victory, and no colonial nation would recognize their legitimate existence as a nation; and France offered to ratify their nationhood in exchange for Haiti paying 2 billion dollars in reparations to the French economy for the destruction of roads and sugar/coffee plantations during their revolution, effectively re-enslaving them, these reparations were paid... Much later Americans backed an anti-communist dictator Duvalier, who oppressed the people so much, and threw them into gulags basically, causing the best and most talented and educated citizens to flee the nation. Furthermore after the very horrible earthquake some years back, the Clintons and their foundation, in charge of the BILLIONS of dollars of relief that private citizens around the world donated as well as corporations and nation states, squandered VERY clearly, most of the money, it is clear very much so, that none of the money has gone to the Haitians in any real capacity, and there are some pretty alarming accusations against the foundation and their handling of the funds.

I don't know a single republican who rejects the idea that black people have been very very oppressed in history, I do know that the republicans I am familiar with, believe the oppression continues but is pretty clearly defined along party lines, the title of oppressor belongs to the Democrat. Today, the Democrat I feel is the oppressor by and large, that isn't to deny that there is racism on both sides, but the party that is the most guilty of oppressing blacks in history in this country all the way to present, are the democrats. There are myths of party shifts, but it is a convenient explanation that doesn't fit with what is clearly oppressive behavior today by that very same party.
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