• ZeroCool@slrpnk.netOP
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    11 months ago

    When the reporter persisted, Decker explained that her father—a preacher born around 1933, according to the Courier Journal, or 68 years after slavery was outlawed—was “born into poverty” and worked for free with his family on the property they lived on. (It’s unclear whether the adults were paid, though the Courier Journal notes that it sounds more like “Decker’s father was forced by his parents to do chores” and that the family were tenant farmers.)

    “My dad had to do chores when he was growing up 😭😭” - KY State Rep. Jennifer Decker

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      There were landowners who were abusive to their tenant farmers, or her dad could even have grown up in a sharecropper family. You know what eventually ended sharecropping and tenant farmers? FDR’s New Deal. She should study history more.

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      anyone who experienced slavery would be opposed to it, want to educate people of it’s evils, not defend it. what a bucket of stupid.

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      Wait until she finds out about prison labor and the systematic imprisoning of a portion of the American population.

      I’m sure she’ll be flabbergasted and demand the situation change immediately!

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      …a preacher…

      Oh, so he’s well-versed in lying to push an agenda. Got it. I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.