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@ChrisALadd @CitiBE @blorenzo @Yiffox @AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @Chabad @graceisforyou @drantbradley @LeahRigueur @princellasmith @BrentNYT @AlsoACarpenter @CharlesMBlow @RosyShepherdess How history textbooks reflect America’s refusal to reckon with slavery
#ADOS #CriticalRaceTheory
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#ADOS #CriticalRaceTheory
vox.com/identities/201…
@ChrisALadd @CitiBE @blorenzo @Yiffox @AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @Chabad @graceisforyou @drantbradley @LeahRigueur @princellasmith @BrentNYT @AlsoACarpenter @CharlesMBlow @RosyShepherdess "Somewhat typical in this distorted history was A Child’s History of North Carolina, circa 1916, which also focused on slavery’s profitability and erased its violence. In this view, the enslaved people were happy, and Southern slave owners were reluctant masters at best. ....
@ChrisALadd @CitiBE @blorenzo @Yiffox @AsraNomani @fcpsnews @Ricardy4Mason @Chabad @graceisforyou @drantbradley @LeahRigueur @princellasmith @BrentNYT @AlsoACarpenter @CharlesMBlow @RosyShepherdess *According to the book, enslaved people “were allowed all the freedom they seemed to want, and were given the privilege of visiting other plantations when they chose to do so. All that was required of them was to be in place when work time came. ...
The Black Conservative Case Against Colorblind Conservativsm
“The message conservatives need to be advancing is that race matters vis-à- vis specific issues.”
blackconservative360.blogspot.com/2016/01/chidik…
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#blackconservatives #CriticalRaceTheory
“The message conservatives need to be advancing is that race matters vis-à- vis specific issues.”
blackconservative360.blogspot.com/2016/01/chidik…
#blackconservativemovement
#blackconservatives #CriticalRaceTheory
"Indeed, race matters; however, two things happen when some conservatives propagate the wrongheaded, politically correct idea that race is obsolete. First, they make the road clear for liberal sophists to persuade people that race matters in all the places where it does not,
and second, conservatives lose the ability to effectively challenge liberals on the caustic effects of their policies on minority communities."
The Problem With Bernie & Trump
Both men thrive off of white identity politics, whilst at the same time telling others to “Just Be American”.
By encouraging the minimization of other people’s interest/identity; the white-identity by default becomes THE established identity.
Both men thrive off of white identity politics, whilst at the same time telling others to “Just Be American”.
By encouraging the minimization of other people’s interest/identity; the white-identity by default becomes THE established identity.
These men are not opposed to “identity politics” — they just want it be THEIR identity.
Why?
Because it gives them the power to define OUR national identity, our national narrative.
Why?
Because it gives them the power to define OUR national identity, our national narrative.
“Oh, Honeys, hush. We can’t be touching all ‘em negro issues too much! We be diverse now. We done made it to that ol’ mountaintop, your lovely negro minister King talked about.”
All that ethnic identity scares us white folk!
Nigg** Just be American!
Just be colorblind.
All that ethnic identity scares us white folk!
Nigg** Just be American!
Just be colorblind.
The Black Conservative Civil War
“There is a civil war occurring between the intellectual, solution-driven black conservatives and the fame-oriented, pseudo-intellectuals on the black right.”
blackconservative360.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-bl…
#CPAC2019 #BHM
#BlackLivesMatter #blackconservativemovement
“There is a civil war occurring between the intellectual, solution-driven black conservatives and the fame-oriented, pseudo-intellectuals on the black right.”
blackconservative360.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-bl…
#CPAC2019 #BHM
#BlackLivesMatter #blackconservativemovement
“The most identifiable feature of fame-oriented black conservatives is their absurdist addiction to the inconsequential issue of whether or not blacks choose to identify as African American or just American. They call this the “unhyphenated American” movement.”
“While this issue is unimportant to regular people, it is deeply important to pseudo-intellectual, fame-oriented black conservatives, because it is the key issue that they use to ingratiate themselves with white conservatives.”
