From MSNBC Reid Out Blog September 15, 2023:
“...before embarking on our dream weeklong trip to Ghana, where we both have ancestral origins, as many people with Jamaican and Guyanese backgrounds do.
“One of the interesting things about heading to Europe and Africa back-to-back is that it really brought home what friend of the show Robert “Robbie” Jones wrote in his book “The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy,” which we discussed on the show last week.
And that is, just how central the Christian churches — the Catholics, Presbyterians and Anglicans, etc. — were in the grisly enterprise of the Atlantic slave trade.”
“And that is, just how central the Christian churches — the Catholics, Presbyterians and Anglicans, etc. — were in the grisly enterprise of the Atlantic slave trade.”
Funny how she is leaving out a VERY big participant in slave trading and slave transportation.