Our country was built on looting -- the looting of Indigenous lands and African labor. African-Americans, in fact, have much more experience being looted than looting.... White mobs, often backed by the police, not only looted and burned black homes and businesses but also maimed and killed black people. Our bodies were loot. The forced extraction of our labor was loot. A system of governance that suppressed our wages, relieved us of property and excluded black people from equal schools and public accommodations is a form of looting.
-- Robin D. G. Kelley
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