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What have you done? You've damned us all.

That's because, by relative comparison, new injustices don't look nearly as bad as the old ones. Not to the generation who's been in those battles. Let's go back to slavery for a minute. We look back on that as an absolute atrocity. It was flat-out evil, right? But at the time, that wasn't how much of the country saw it. On one side, you had a growing group of people who were in support of ending it forever. On the other side were people who genuinely thought that abolition was an insane idea. "This will ruin the country! We'll see total financial collapse if we have to hire workers to replace slaves! Bringing them to this country was a gift -- we gave them food, clothing, shelter, jobs, saved their souls by introducing them to Jesus ... and they're just going to spit in our faces and demand more?! Fuck you!"

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Skip ahead. Slavery is gone. People are trying to integrate into society and are finding locked doors everywhere they go. For the next hundred years, there is a brutal fight for equality that we're still feeling today. The slave-owning generation started filling up graves, and the same group of people who fought to free the slaves now think that asking for equality is just a bunch of pansy horseshit. That's not speculation. Here's what Abraham Goddamn Lincoln said about it:

I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the black and white races -- that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making VOTERS or jurors of negroes, NOR OF QUALIFYING THEM HOLD OFFICE, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any of her man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.