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If students can discuss The Holocaust, (other things) without much trouble, why can't they engage the (direct and INDIRECT) dissimilar impact of the largest forced oceanic migration in human history --- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?

#CriticalRaceTheory
A Black LAWYER vs White Supremacy

How America Invented Race | The History of White People in America

#RacismIsNotComedy #race #whitesupremacy #racialslavery
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How America Invented Race | The History of White People in America

#RacismIsNotComedy #race #whitesupremacy #racialslavery
"The events in Jamestown were alarming to the planter elite, who were deeply fearful of the multiracial alliance of [indentured servants] and slaves. Word of Bacon’s Rebellion spread far and wide, and several more uprisings of a similar type followed. In an effort to protect ...
... their superior status and economic position, the planters shifted their strategy for maintaining dominance. They abandoned their heavy reliance on indentured servants in favor of the importation of more black slaves.
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I voted for Obama, only because he is black. => this is racism

One should never argue on the basis of external characteristics such as skin color.
You should never say that you trust one person more than the other just because they are white or black.
#racism @BarackObama
For many, however, that is exactly the reasoning, or was the reasoning in the election of Obama.

They said they would vote for him because if enough people vote, he will be the first black president.

#RacismIsNotAnOpinion #RacismIsNotComedy #racism
They should have thought about what he's going to do and what his goals are, rather than just focusing on the color of his skin and raving about the fact that the first black President will be Obama.

#RacismIsNotAnOpinion #RacismIsNotComedy #racism
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