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Two Traumas, One Diaspora | BBS 2026 Day 2

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0:00A: As soon as slavery ended, we had a whole bunch of positive movement and they destroyed it. And then we were segregated and we were still doing well and they got jealous and they had to destroy that. And so we integrated. And when we integrated, a lot of our money went into communities that wasn’t ours. And when you take our money out of the community, that’s how then they’re able to control us economically. And so Bitcoin, all that is is just a network connector because we’re able to transact globally. And I’m just choosing to transact with my brothers and sisters from Africa because at the end of the day, I don’t know how many generations I’ve been in America, my family, but we all go back to Africa. And, you know, they went through colonization, we went through slavery. They’re very different traumas, but both traumatized. We should be working together and not be fighting over, you know, who has what. It’s not even that important. Let’s just work together.

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