CNN’s Karen Finney Claims Slavery Would Still Exist if Civil War Hadn’t Been Fought

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FINNEY: “Well look, I think there are a couple of things on that. Number one, they may be aware and this may be a very clear dog whistle. Again, as Abby was pointing out, Trump does understand from a cultural perspective the swath of his base that -- remember in so many of the studies we saw after 2016, that it was racial anxiety that people were really feeling and that he spoke to so effectively. So this is in many ways the same playbook. It’s offensive. I mean, think about it — this is the I think about it. If the Confederate generals had won, that could mean that people like Abby and myself would still be enslaved. I mean, that’s what we’re talking about when we talk about the Confederacy and the Civil War and why these symbols in these states are so meaningful. And certainly to not only desecrate Juneteenth, but to do it in a place -- you know, one of the things that was so important about Tulsa, it was called the black Wall Street. It was a place where black Americans actually -- you know, there was a — beginning to accrue wealth and that we know is one of the many markers of systemic racism that is in the very bones of our system that, you know, black Americans do not — you know, the wealth disparity is very wide as is the unemployment rates. I mean, there are so many things you can point to, as you said, John, about why this is so wrong, sends the wrong message, and again, going back to the initial question makes it very clear where his heart really is. You know, he is racist. He does not seem to care, nor does he seem to have any interest in changing or understanding and that is not where the country is right now.”