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i appreciate how many + varied examples there are but we r being a little undercritical of the millitary and its exploitation and abuse of Black people

There is no Spartacus in the romanticization of U.S. history.

A story Stokely Carmichael liked to tell was of bringing an elderly woman to vote in Lowndes County, Alabama: "She had to be 80 years old and going to vote for the first time in her life...That ol' lady came up to us, went into her bag, and produced this enormous, rusty Civil War-looking old pistol. 'Best you hol' this for me, son. I'ma go cast my vote now.'"