Qasim Rashid, Esq.Jul 3, 2023

A Republican got offended I called the founding U.S. citizens "colonizers,"—rebuking me that “the original 13 colonies were beacons of freedom.”

I asked him to repeat that part...slowly. Apparently "colonies" is respectful—but calling those who built colonies "colonizers" is not.🤔

Also, I'm sure the enslaved, Native Americans, women, and anyone not a WASP wealthy land owner would likely disagree with that whole "beacon of freedom" part.

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@QasimRashid Massachusetts, "beacon of freedom" was the first colony to legalize slavery. (as in, wrote down how it should work and enforced it)

Increase Mather (an early president of Harvard University, and father of Cotton Mather, who was involved in some of the Salem Witch Trials) was a slave owner.

It's slavery, colonization, religious conversion and force from the earliest days

Jul 3, 2023 at 2:56pmWeb