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White Anti-Quarantine Protesters Have Cruelly Co-opted an Enslaved Black Woman from the 18th Century

WHITE FRAGILITY
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Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Public Domain

White “reopen” protesters from California to Germany have paraded the image of Anastácia, a shackled Brazilian slave. It is the height of white appropriation and privilege.