The Word Slavery Is Inappropriate to Describe African Americans

Sally Kohn: Trump didn't want to use the word slave to describe African Americans. That seems totally bananas, right? Because no one thinks of the word slave or slavery is controversial either to white southerners or to northerners who are ambivalent or even hostile to black freedom. She says his point was to say that black people had actually helped make white equality possible by being a force for wealth creation and for solving aristocratic problems of the past.Kohn: We can't foist it off on some long dead past. This is alive, this is real. We are all responsible for this, not one section of the country.