• balderdash@lemmy.zipOP
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    19 天前

    invented the dumb-waiter so that his abolitionist friends didn’t have to observe the slaves

    The amount of physical and linguistic inventions that go back to slavery is astounding. The other day I learned that the ice cream truck jingle comes from the song “N**** Love A Watermelon Ha! Ha! Ha!”. When you start looking our racist history is everywhere.