Wisconsin Democrat Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes says founding of America ‘awful’
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Wisconsin Lt. Gov. and U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes (D) was filmed on video telling an audience the founding of America was awful and terrible.
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"The founding of this nation? Awful," Barnes continued, adding that Americans ought to commit themselves to doing everything possible to repairing the harms of the past.
These harms, he said, include slavery and colonization, the impacts of which "are felt today."
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