US lawmaker Werner Horn, a Republican from the state of New Hampshire, commented on a since-deleted Facebook post that owning slaves "doesn't make you racist". "If Trump is the most racist president in American history, what does that say about all of the other presidents who owned slaves?," Hynes wrote. "Wait, owning slaves doesn't make you racist," Horn commented. FACEBOOK US lawmaker Werner Horn, centre, commented on a since-deleted Facebook post that owning slaves "doesn't make you racist". In the US, a well-documented system of racist law and science was used to legitimise the slave trade by painting black people as inferior.

Source: Stuff July 22, 2019 00:00 UTC