African American History: Don’t Bleach It, Teach It... The 1619 Project...

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August 19, 2019

Taken from Africa, in chains, like animals, against their free will.
Western societies, who via colonialisation, committed this abhorant
act, & worst, against us (people of the African diasporia) refuse to
pay us reparation, despite paying billions to other ethnic groups who

August 14, 2019
were also victims of hate, rape, murder & economic advancement crimes

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The 1619 Project ...

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Watch: The Times Presents the #1619Project

We’re observing the 400th anniversary of American slavery. Watch a kickoff…

400 Years of African History In America...

The New York Times launched the 1619 Project, one of the most comprehensive examinations of the impact of slavery on American life and the U.S. “Black people have played one of the most vital roles as the perfecters of this democracy.”

https://timesevents.nytimes.com/1619NYC?fbclid=IwAR3dqdbR7YGXZ45LtH...

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A.d. Leonard

27 mins ·

"By virtue of our bondage...we became the most American of all". One of the best things I have read in a very long time. You will be angry, you will be tearful, but most of all you will be proud. And thanks Abu Ruyaa for sharing this series.

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America Wasn’t a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One

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What the Reactionary Politics of 2019 Owe to the Politics of Slavery

Aug. 14

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With independence, the founding fathers could no longer blame slavery on Britain. The sin became this nation’s own, and so, too, the need to cleanse it. The shameful paradox of continuing chattel slavery in a nation founded on individual freedom, scholars today assert, led to a hardening of the racial caste system. This ideology, reinforced not just by laws but by racist science and literature, maintained that black people were subhuman, a belief that allowed white Americans to live with their betrayal. By the early 1800s, according to the legal historians Leland B. Ware, Robert J. Cottrol and Raymond T. Diamond, white Americans, whether they engaged in slavery or not, “had a considerable psychological as well as economic investment in the doctrine of black inferiority.” While liberty was the inalienable right of the people who would be considered white, enslavement and subjugation became the natural station of people who had any discernible drop of “black” blood.

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The Supreme Court enshrined this thinking in the law in its 1857 Dred Scott decision, ruling that black people, whether enslaved or free, came from a “slave” race. This made them inferior to white people and, therefore, incompatible with American democracy. Democracy was for citizens, and the “Negro race,” the court ruled, was “a separate class of persons,” which the founders had “not regarded as a portion of the people or citizens of the Government” and had “no rights which a white man was bound to respect.” This belief, that black people were not merely enslaved but were a slave race, became the root of the endemic racism that we still cannot purge from this nation to this day. If black people could not ever be citizens, if they were a caste apart from all other humans, then they did not require the rights bestowed by the Constitution, and the “we” in the “We the People” was not a lie.

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At the time, one-fifth of the population within the 13 colonies struggled under a brutal system of slavery unlike anything that had existed in the world before. Chattel slavery was not conditional but racial. It was heritable and permanent, not temporary, meaning generations of black people were born into it and passed their enslaved status onto their children. Enslaved people were not recognized as human beings but as property that could be mortgaged, traded, bought, sold, used as collateral, given as a gift and disposed of violently. Jefferson’s fellow white colonists knew that black people were human beings, but they created a network of laws and customs, astounding for both their precision and cruelty, that ensured that enslaved people would never be treated as such. As the abolitionist William Goodell wrote in 1853, “If any thing founded on falsehood might be called a science, we might add the system of American slavery to the list of the strict sciences.”

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