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Land of the free (but only if you’re rich and white)
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WE HAVE always been led to believe that the United States is the leader of the free world. They are, after all, allegedly, the “land of the free and the home of the brave.”
Of course this has only ever really applied to people who were or are white and Anglo-Saxon.
The indigenous population of the land now known as America or the millions enslaved onto the plantations of North America would find it hard to believe in the freedom and democracy proposition.
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