I didn’t say you were wrong l. They built this country in the 50s and 60s. You left a ton of issues out in your little description of how and why. Again romanticized nonsense
No it didn’t.
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My grandparents were born at the turn of the last century on a farm in Kentucky. The mindset I just stated, was taught to me by them and my mother who was born just after the great depression and it was taught to them by the great, great, greats. That’s what “built this country” and that was long before the 50s and 60s. What you label as “romanticized nonsense” is the mindset I’ve passed along to those I brought into this world and they are doing the same for their children, my grandchildren. It’s a highly successful methodology when measured by any metric you care to use. Since I KNOW this to be true, I truly wish it and this internal happiness for all.
Again teaching people that this how it worked but leaving some important details sounds a lot like romanticization but you do you.
There is nothing wrong with teaching children that a stable family is important to success. Pointing to a past and leaving out some important details of why it worked is how we create conservatives. 
No, slavery was an economic drag, not a benefit.
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L o l
You do realize that slavery existed from 1619 until 1865. To deny that 250 years of slavery didn’t turn the US into an economic superpower is… perhaps the dumbest thing I’ve read here.
MAYBE by 1850ish… the benefits were fading… however what about the previous 240?
…and don’t forget horses. Where would “we” be today without that horsepower of yesterday?
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Slavery always retards economic growth. Unless you think making black people farm labor was their highest possible economic utility.
Slavery had nothing to do with “economic superpower”.
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If that were true, Brazil would be the leader of the western hemisphere. Only a small fraction of African slaves were brought to the US. Ninety percent of the africans were taken to South America as slaves, with Brazil taking most of them.
Whoever is indoctrinating you is lying to you.
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Free labor? In 1700-1800s?
Was there a better way in, for example, 1780?
Do you know why that was? Do you know why Brazil and other Carribean countries imported a high number of slaves?
Let’s see who educating you.
Ridiculous…
This toss away of the economic benefits of hundreds of years of free labor… is baffling
lots of unfair things occurred to various races around the world through time
no one is owed anything
get over it
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this “free labor” did not make anyone rich
Doesn’t matter why. Slavery does not make an economic powerhouse.
You’re supposed to yell BINGO!
Are you joking? 
Tell that to the white person pulling up stones so he can build his small farm. Oh, you can’t, because just like that slave he’s been dead well over a hundred years.
Which means how you do in your math class today has nothing to do with who did what 160 years ago.
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ooh that really must be undercutting the narrative.
