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Senator tells Native American candidate to go back to where she came from, storms out of public event
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The senator is from Lake Forest, Illinois which somewhat ironically was an abolitionist town with several prominent members of the Underground Railroad living there. It has changed a lot since then and now is a wealthy conservative country club suburb of Chicago with barely 1% of its population being black.
Some abolitionists held their stance on slavery not so much because they believed everyone should be free but because they didn't like minorities being present at all, slaves or not, and thought ending slavery would mean they'd get shipped back to Africa, despite many having no direct connection to Africa closer than they had a direct connection to Europe.
Not all abolitionists thought this way, but it wasn't always in opposition to racism. Hell, segregation lasted into the 1900s and there's still a problem with police racism that isn't being properly addressed to this day, despite the anti-slavery side winning over 150 years ago.
Shit take in the first half ngl
You mean my take that some abolitionists were motivated by hate or the take of the abolitionists that were motivated by hate?