One to two million Africans died on the trans-Atlantic slave voyage to the New World, a portion of which had been headed to the US. The African Americans who lived in the antebellum South suffered whippings, slave labor, mutilations, rape, forced family separations, and cultural destruction. After the Emancipation Proclamation, Black people endured lynchings and brutal psychological torture. This MK Ultra Nazi-style assault lasted for centuries. Even today, many African Americans are sold to the Prison Industrial Complex for slave labor, as well as targeted for execution and abuse by the police state.
Given the history, and current situation, African Americans are entitled to their own Holocaust Museum. The current Holocaust Museums in the US commemorate non-US nationals who died in other countries at the hands of people living on another continent. African Americans who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow were US citizens abused by their own nation and fellow citizens. It goes without saying Native Americans also deserve a Holocaust Museum.
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