A lot of the anger about non-white people voting for a white nationalist is because some people don't understand one inarguable historical truth:
THAT'S EXACTLY HOW YOU BECOME WHITE!
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First of all, let's all agree that whiteness is some shit people made up. It has no basis in science or even logic.
For instance, for MOST of American history, the Irish weren't considered white and they might be the whitest people on the planet!
Now the Irish WERE NOT slaves, but the English and Scottish considered them "the closest thing to the negro" and "human chimpanzees"
Do you know how far England is from Ireland?
21 miles!
It's like when Brooklyn niggas talk shit about people from Queens.
It was only after the slaves were freed that the Irish moved up on the social ladder. An 1864 Democrat dociment said “There is the strongest reason for believing that the first movement toward amalgamation in this country will take place between Irish and Negroes.”
They were considered athletic, strong and lazy. They could dance, though. Plus, they excelled in boxing.
Does any of this sound familiar?
So how did they become white?
Well, basically, it was because of Gangs.
In cities across the country, the Irish couldn't live among whites. But when free blacks moved to cities like NY and Chicago during the Great Migration, black people started taking their jobs and their housing, so they formed gangs.
Soon, the gangs gained control of politics
For instance, Chicago's Richard Daley was a member of the Hamburgs, one of the gangs responsible for the Chicago Riot in 1919. Now, Daley never admitted his involvement but curiously, he was elected president of the Hamburgs just after
Then he became mayor.
Well, when these gangs gained control of the political apparatus, they gave their gang members municipal jobs, mostly as police officers and firemen. And because they were in charge of police departments and they had beef with black people...
Not only did they use their positions to enforce white supremacy, but they did it with the explicit intention of clearing a space for themselves.
In Philly, William "Bull" McMullen, leader of the Killers, murdered a man and went into the army to escape conviction (ironic, huh?)
When he came back, he became part of the Democratic Party leadership, organized the community to support the mayor, was elected alderman and made the police force 76 percent Irish.
Same thing in NY.
In 1855, Irish gangsters stuffed the ballot box for Mayor Fernando Wood.
His first major act was to add 246 policement to the force, half of which were Irish. By 1860, the fire dept was 75 % Irish. And because cops and firefighters couldn't drink in public, they hung out in bars. And because they hung out in pubs run by Irish gangsters...
They unionized and were connected politicians to organized crime. They could even write their own rezoning laws and street permits. That's why cities have rows of Irish pubs. They had entire streets where they could get drunk and not get in trouble. White men don't do that
Well, maybe they do it once a year. Maybe on a holiday or something
And THAT's why cities shut down and have drunkfests on St. Patrick's Day.
And who gets to march in those parades?
Cops and firemen.
And that's how they became white.
You know who else was good at boxing, dancing, singing and gangs?
When the Italians streamed into the US in the late 1800s they were the best entertainers, athletes and workers. But no one wanted to live around them because they were dirty. Plus they were criminals
But they stuck together. However, this made them more suspect. People believed every Italian was in the mafia or plotting an overthrow of the gov't.
In 1891, a mob lynched 11 Italians after they were acquitted for murdering a New Orleans cop.
Anti-Italian sentiment sparked the rise of the KKK in the 1900s, not to mention the nativist movement. The 1924 National Origins act reduced Italian immigration by 98%
And during the great migration, to white people, there was no difference between Blacks & Italians
After the great depression, the government handed out low interest loans to everyone except black people. But the gov't didn't consider Italians whites, so if you lived in a black or Italian neighborhood, it was all the same.
We were even allowed to go to their schools
"Their schools?"
Oh yeah, until 1940s, naturalization documents listed "Italian" as a separate race from white.
So how did they become white?
White supremacy.
Italians practiced Jim Crow even when whites businesses didn't & ONLY voted for politicians who supported Jim Crow
Remember when they rounded up Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor?
Well, they did that to Italians, too. Roosevelt declared Italian Americans to be "enemy combatants" But by the time they displaced 10,000, they were like:
Damn, there are a lot of these motherfuckers!
But Italian Americans signed up to fight in WWII. Some explicitly said they did it to change the nefarious perception. And guess what?
When they came back, they were white!
They refused to live & attend schools with Blacks
In 1947, Chicago Italians students staged a walkout because there were "so many negroes in our school."
Luckily, the problem was fixed in less than a week when ten black children died in a fire when an arsonist set their building on fire.
To protect themselves, black youths formed their own gangs MODELED AFTER the Irish and Italian gangs. But by then, the Italians had ousted blacks from their hoods
So where did the Black people go?
Well, in 1941, the City of Chicago decided to give away homes!
Of course, they didn't give them to Black people. Instead, they herded Black people into the low-cost Frances Cabrini row homes, razed the old black neighborhoods and created Italian and Jewish communities!
Of course, this took off. Cities across the country did it!
But they had a decision to make.
Remember that "redlining" policy that prevented banks from offering loans in places where black people lived? How could they deny these brave Italian veterans low-interest mortgages? (They did it to Black vets, though)
These people had cleared the neighborhoods and fought in a war! They had helped herd the blacks and voted for their oppressor?
And, viola! The Italians were made white!
Jewish Immigrants followed this same model.
So did the "ethnic" Polish.
It's actually an American tradition.
Now, let me ask you a serious question but first you gotta promise that you won't Google the answer:
What is "Hispanic?"
Seriously. Do you know?
Puerto Rico has been part of this country for 100 years. Are they Hispanic because they are a Carribean island?
In fact, why are Haitians considered Black and Dominicans Hispanic even though they're from the same island?
How are you a Native American if you were on one side of the Rio Grande but you're a Hispanic Mexican if you were born on the other side of the river?
Is it language?
Then why aren't people from Spain considered Hispanic?
In fact, why are Cubans considered Hispanic?
When the Spanish came to Cuba, they wiped out the indigenous Taino. The conquistadors eventually brought more ut they were nearly wiped out too.
In fact, Most Cubans genetically have more European lineage than white Americans.
WHAT THE FUCK IS HISPANIC?
I'll tell you what it is.
It's some bullshit we made up.
But white keep instituting policies because they are afraid that this country will be a majority-white country by next Thursday
THAT'S why they're rounding up Mexican children. That's why they want u to SPEAK AMERICAN
But the truth is, the men who made the laws ensured that this country will always and forever be a white country by providing a path to becoming a "real American."
That path is paved with the bones and blood of Black people.
You don't have to join a club or pay a membership fee to become white.
Whiteness in America has always been about kicking black people in the face. But they don't do it because they hate us.
We are the example.
When they are putting stomping on our faces, they're saying:
"Oh, you wanna be a REAL American? Well, let me see how hard you can kick."
And on Tuesday, all those "people of color" were like:
"Is this hard enough?"
PS: If you wanna see the greatest example, think about this:
With all the white supremacy thrown around during this election, no one has mentioned the fact that Joe Biden will be only the 2nd Catholic president.
Here's how the first one explained himself to "white people"
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First of all, let’s get this out of the way, NO ONE deserves hate. It is wrong
Yet, year in and year out, there are more anti-Black hate crimes than any other category.
And according to the latest FBI data there, are nearly 3 times more anti-black crimes than anti-Jewish crimes.
But of course, there are SIX TIMES more Black American than Jewish Americans, so people just divide the number of hate crimes by the percentage of the population and Jewish Americans are more likely to experience hate crimes…
A few years ago, while working for one of the greatest sports franchises of all time, I learned a very important life lesson.
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Every summer, my hometown's recreation department hosted a "stop the violence" summer league to keep kids "off the street."
It eventually became so competitive that teams would recruit out-of-town ringers, leaving local basketball players shut out of their hometown's tournament
My homeboys asked me to sponsor a team and I agreed. Unlike the other teams, no one on my team played college ball. They were essentially regular dudes from the hood who just loved basketball.
Many people don’t know that the phrase “crabs in a barrel” comes from an old Geechie Gullah tale.
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A long time ago, it was impossible to catch crabs. They were too crafty. Even when they got caught in a net, other crabs would come and free them. Then, one day, a fisherman found a crafty old crab in his net one morning. He was just about to eat it when the the crafty old crab said:
“Please Mr. Fisherman, don’t eat me. Please don’t eat me!”
“Why wouldn’t I eat you?” said the fisherman
“Because I’m crafty, old, & other crabs respect me,” the crab replied.
Fisherman: What good does respect do me? You ain’t nothing but a crab”
Crafty Crab: Well crabs are very stupid, and I’m smart. They’ll believe anything I tell them
7 years ago, I wrote a small piece about a man who was falsely accused of a crime.
A few days later, I got an anonymous telling me to look up the woman they called “the evilest white woman on earth.”
What happened next is the absolute wildest story you’ll ever hear
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The story begins in 2017, when an editor asked me to fill in for a coworker and do a quick write-up about Lamonte McIntyre, who spent 23 yrs in prison for a double murder he didn’t commit.
I thought it was weird his conviction wasn’t actually overturned
Contrary what people who don't read things say, the Virginia legislature is not "targeting" the Klan-affiliated, pro-Confederate hate group that is responsible for the "lost cause" by taking the tax-exempt status from the KKK's little sister.
See, in 1950, Virginia GAVE the UDOC a plot of land to build their HQ in Robert E Lee Park with 3 stipulations
1. They had to finish building in 5 years 2. If they didn't, the land reverted back to the state 3. If they finished, the state would GIVE them an additional $10K
In 1924, lawmakers tasked the census bureau was tasked with figuring out the “national origins of the white population of the US.”
If white people were from a certain country, that country was considered “Good.” Nonwhite people were from “bad countries.”
To preserve the country’s racial composition, they created a formula. Ppl from good countries could immigrate based on the % of pop. in the formula. Immigration from bad countries was limited.
And no Asians
This was why we call it the Asian Exclusion & National Origins Act
In 1952, they changed the formula to allow people from “bad countries” to immigrate at a minimum # 100
Except for Africans. Under the formula, ALL of Africa was considered 1 country
In 1965, civil rights activist convinced LBJ to sign the Immigration & Nationality Act