Wilted Leaves Of Cabbage
9/11 one-day death toll: ~3,000
Death toll of chattel slavery: currently most conservative estimate is 14,000,000 during the 246 years of chattel slavery (1619 - 1865, when the last slave was “freed”, despite emancipation having been granted two years prior).
This number doesn’t consider the cumulative running toll of white supremacy itself, which was the keystone of chattel slavery and the denial of humanity to black people. “…I know we all know this, but…”
Over the first 328 years of slavery, including sharecropping (not added to the 14mil estimate but let’s use the smallest estimate anyway) that comes out to 156 people a day per year. Repeatedly, for 328 years. Conversely, ~3,000 deaths (the official total of the one-day event) comes out to about 9 deaths a day for a year, and since Krusti said “…ever”, apples to apples that number comes out to 0.0250584697628 death’s per day over 328 years.
Adding and rounding up the cumulative death toll of 9/11 to 6,000, comes out to about 1 death a day over 19 years.
Including the still counting toll of slavery - only in the US, not the full breadth of the Transatlantic Trade which is a whole other, exponentially higher estimate - and it’s iterations, of which the lowest knowable/recorded total between 1866 and 1970 is 8,850, that still comes out to far more than less than one death per day, and that’s doing the math for the respective timeframes only.
For whatever reason, I had more time for doing math this morning than I’ve had ever. 🤷🏾♀️
