Breaking the Chokehold: American Descendants of Slavery-We Are America

Maryam Ismail
7 min readJun 13, 2020
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash

“It their duty (the people) to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.” This excerpt from the Declaration of Independence, is a rallying cry calling for the end of tyranny. If you are African American in this nation, you have lived under tyrants for centuries. It is time to do something about it.

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Maryam Ismail

Mom. Journalist. Pizza maker New School for Social Research Alum, MA in Sociology and Historical Studies.