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#BlackConservatism isn't "lily-white" conservatism.

"Authentic black conservatism has always had the fundamental and explicit goal of opposing white supremacy."

— Kareim Oliphant

#BlackConservatives

If Burkean conservatism is a response to the French Revolution; African or Black conservatism, emerges out of, and in response to the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

"Give us, us free!"

The History of Racialism: Why Europeans Invented Racial Slavery

Reaching back across the centuries, this program sheds light on historical attitudes toward human differences.

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“White People Did Not Exist On Planet Eartt Until 1681.”

“The notion of White People is not derived from biology.”

“White supremacy has been embedded in the United States of America since its founding as a matter of law.”

— Dr. Jacqueline Battalora Image
"The Atlantic slave trade was well under way before there even was such a thing as the “Black Race” or the “White Race,” both previously being a host of various nationalities, ethnicities, religions, cultures, languages, and phenotypical features."

alsoacarpenter.com/2019/08/20/wha…
Never forget or minimize this...

“the system of racialised perpetual hereditary chattel slavery that was developed in the New World by Europeans has NO EQUIVALENT
in history."

@Limerick1914
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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.
"They don't see race, but they benefit from racism."

— Charisse C. Levchak

#ColorblindRacism
"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 Arab-American Role in Demanding African American Autonomy.

"There is something troubling about the narrative that many #Arabs and #Muslims in the United States adopt regarding conditions of African Americans."
yemeniamerican.com/en/the-arab-am… via @yamericannet
When "The Newly Arrived" Finally Gets it! #ADOS #immigrants

"The problem often lies in the failure to understand both the historical and the institutional dimensions of marginalization that African Americans have experienced."
"African American struggles in the United States could not be simply limited to how the US economy was entirely built on the shoulders of a people who were instantly turned into [racial] slaves and were accordingly deprived their history, culture, and ability to exercise ...
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The Rise Of Race-Based Slavery

The system of basing slavery on a person’s race did not occur in the first years of settlement. 

Race-based slavery began in the mid-1600s. By the 1660s, slavery was reserved for Africans only.

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The Government AND its Newly Arrived citizens ((collectively)) decided to deny Africans, both, liberty and property - for 250 years.

And, that is the legacy of #RacialSlavery.

The Long Arm of The Transatlantic Slave Trade.
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250 years of (race-based) slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow, 60 years of Seperate but Equal -- the byproduct of just a few dudes on a block?

Total nonsense.
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Black Conservatism is NOT Lily-White Conservatism

"Authentic black conservatism has always had the fundamental and explicit goal of opposing white supremacy."

— Kareim Oliphant

#BlackConservatives
If Burkean conservatism is a response to the French Revolution, then African conservatism is also a response. It emerges out of, and in response to the shock of both Colonialism and The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade — the largest forced migration in history.

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The LARGEST, long-distance, coerced migration in human history — The Atlantic slave trade is the backdrop, for the dissimilar attitudes, values, unique differences, between, Anglo conservatism, and what is referred to as African or "black conservatism".

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Why #RacialSlavery should not be equated with #humantrafficking

"Colonial powers who have been slow in recognizing colonial slavery, refusing to apologize out of fear of compensation claims, are now at the forefront of fighting ‘modern slavery."

impact-now.org/why-colonial-s…
"... without sufficient recognition and awareness of what colonial slavery was about and how it has been different from modern forms of enslavement, these correlations can do more damage than good. It takes away recognition of the particular damage and trauma
... inflicted on the victims of colonial slavery, damage that has transcended in future generations (intergenerational trauma)."
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Without Slavery, Would The U.S. Be The Leading Economic Power? wbur.fm/1F0eMZj

"The idea that the forced labor of African Americans is what made [America] powerful and rich is not an idea that people necessarily are happy to hear. Yet it is the truth."

#RacialSlavery
"During the middle of the 1800s, cotton became the world's largest commodity. The cheapest and best cotton came from the southern United States."
"Edward Baptist argues in his new book,"The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism," that the forced migration and subsequent harsh treatment of slaves in the cotton fields was integral to establishing the United States as a world economic power."
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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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A History of #Racism

The Colonial Roots of Racism

"The history of #racism in the Western world is broadly associated with slavery as an early form of colonialism, and it is in that context, that something called race is created."

"Give us, us free!"

The History of Racialism: Why Europeans Invented Racial Slavery

Reaching back across the centuries, this program sheds light on historical attitudes toward human differences.

Anthony Bogues, Brown University: What is Racial Slavery?

What is racial slavery and how is it different from other forms of slavery?



#RacialSlavery
#WhiteSupremacy
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