re: Some wisdom from owner of Del Porto in Covington

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Yes, black people built everything in America

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Black slaves helped generate agricultral goods for cheap. Those goods were consumed. The wealth generated from those goods was essentially torched in the Civil War. The balance sheet of the south was negative at the end of the war. There was nothing left. They built no monuments. They built no cathedrals. No lasting societal pillars. One of the biggest tragedies of the slavery was that in spite of the abhorrent affront to humanity that it was, fricking nothing worthwhile came from it. It was literally wasted in terms of resource allocation.

The industrial revolution built this country. As did economic timing into wars.

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Yes, black people built everything in America Let's ignore the Chinese slaves, the white slaves.

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Or let’s ignore that over 99.9% was built by people who weren’t slaves at all.