Interesting wording. The question is whether or not they continued to be human beings without regard to what we thought of them or if they really did become something other than human beings for the time that the courts and the slave owners said that they weren't human beings. And today, do they cease to be human beings simply because certain racists continue to believe that they are less than human? Does any given black man or woman actually transform into something other than a human being because some low life racist believes he can "create his own reality" in which blacks aren't real human beings?

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