The dark history of dehumanization and why it repeats today.

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]And then slavery and all of the people who were brought from Africa on the slave ships and treated so cruelly. Why?

[00:00:10]Because of what you just said, they were dehumanized.

[00:00:14]People white people believed they were not human.

[00:00:18]And so they were allowed to treat people that way. So and look at what happened with family separation under the first Trump administration, separating mothers and kids from each other. Why? Because they were dehumanized.