daniel on Nostr: These people are just plain wrong, and clearly have no idea how much influence ...

These people are just plain wrong, and clearly have no idea how much influence African populations had over the shape of the nation. American white nationalists love to gloss over that fact, as if the human beings their ancestors enslaved for hundreds of years were nothing more than machines or animals, incapable of independent thought and ingenuity. You wouldn’t even have Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey if not for Nathan “Nearest” Green, a slave who possessed the knowledge of charcoal filtering passed down through his West African heritage. Of course, it took close to 150 years for the company to acknowledge this fact.

You know what else was invented by Americans of African descent? Blues and rock and roll. I like my America with whiskey and rock, thank you. 🥃🎸