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My Name Is John Punch: I am the first LEGAL #racialslave in human history.
I do not remember much about my past. That said, I do remember I wass born in the most beautiful place in the world —Africa.
I don't recall where in Africa.
Maybe Cameroon, Gabon or the Ivory Coast.
I do not remember much about my past. That said, I do remember I wass born in the most beautiful place in the world —Africa.
I don't recall where in Africa.
Maybe Cameroon, Gabon or the Ivory Coast.
"It is a sad truth of our history that American slavery based on race was invented in Virginia, very close to where I sit today.'
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The underlying assumption should be based on evidence. And, the evidence suggest you're lying.
"It is a sad truth of our history that American slavery based on race was invented in Virginia, very close to where I sit today.'
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"It is a sad truth of our history that American slavery based on race was invented in Virginia, very close to where I sit today.'
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Why #CriticalRaceTheoryMatters
"Race was invented by White Europeans and perfected in American courts." shsu.edu/~jll004/vabeac…
"Race was invented by White Europeans and perfected in American courts." shsu.edu/~jll004/vabeac…
A Timeline
1607: Jamestown, the first British North American settlement, was founded in Virginia.
1640: Virginia courts sentenced a black run away servant, John Punch, to "serve his said master . . . for the time of
his natural Life."
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1607: Jamestown, the first British North American settlement, was founded in Virginia.
1640: Virginia courts sentenced a black run away servant, John Punch, to "serve his said master . . . for the time of
his natural Life."
shsu.edu/~jll004/vabeac…
@CNN 25 years AFTER the Civil War.
132 years ago ...
"However, in 1888, the struggle was begun by the organization of "white Republican clubs," for the purpose of controlling the county conventions"
— Maud Cuney Hare
132 years ago ...
"However, in 1888, the struggle was begun by the organization of "white Republican clubs," for the purpose of controlling the county conventions"
— Maud Cuney Hare
@CNN The Lily White Republicans
"He spoke with no bridled tongue of the political OUTRAGES in #Arkansas and #FortBend County, #Texas, and stated that he recognized the fight was to OVERTHROW the Negro Republicans in the State."
#BHM
- Maud Cuney-Hare
"He spoke with no bridled tongue of the political OUTRAGES in #Arkansas and #FortBend County, #Texas, and stated that he recognized the fight was to OVERTHROW the Negro Republicans in the State."
#BHM
- Maud Cuney-Hare
@CNN Whenever the "lily-white, conservatives are told that they have to share this space that is ours; share it with an individual or with ideas, experiences, that challenges them; they quickly label that idea, individual, community, a threat, a relativist, a cultural Marxist.
