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Originally Posted by jalfrezi
Also, though it's irrelevant, plenty of those people are alive today.
Not the ones who "historically" did things, which was in your statement.
I interpret that phrase to refer to times before anyone alive today was born.
There are no Americans alive today who owned slaves. There are almost none left who were old enough to be adults at the time Jim Crow was prevalent in the south, and those few will be dead within the next 10 years or so.