#honest to god sometimes i feel like black people in america shouldn't have to work a single day of our lives

[firelord-frowny]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ive always thought it's so wiiiiiiiiild that so many of these ~mansions~ that used to be slave plantations are now government-owned and converted into museums instead of being collectively owned by all black americans, liiiiiiiiiiike....

we should fucking own that shit! our ancestors RAN those farms! worked that land! built those mansions! yet somebody other than us is benefiting from it now???

honest to god i wish black folks could all own those properties like a timeshare lmao and we'd all be entitled to spend a few days a year living it up in our luxurious country homes in the deep south. catch me sipping lemonade on my veranda on a hot summer evening while my housekeepers clean up the kitchen after dinner.

#honestly the sheer scale of all the things the united states RIGHTFULLY OWES to black people is mind boggling #all the shit our ancestors were forced to do for free while suffering day in and day out #all the abuse our ancestors were subject to. #all the things that were stolen from us #from our languages to our religions to our own land and property when we were finally able to own things at all #honest to god sometimes i feel like black people in america shouldn't have to work a single day of our lives #let us live it up for a few centuries and accumulate wealth #in the same way that white ~americans~ were able to accumulate wealth by Not Paying Anyone A Damn Thing To Work For Them #i'm not even saying i want to deprive white people of anything lmao i dont give a fuck what they have or don't have #they can keep whatever wealth they've got i don't CARE #i just want what i'm owed #for the dignity of my great great great ancestors #if there's any sort of consciousness after death i would want them to have the satisfaction #of knowing that someone eventually inherited the cumulative worth of hundreds of years of enslaved labor #i'd want them to know that their suffering ultimately made their descendants filthy fucking rich #as rich or better yet RICHER THAN the descendants of the people who got rich off of us #but nope #black people at large are relegated to mostly unremarkable financial and social standing