“In Ramadan of 1835, a group of enslaved African Muslim clerics in Salvador of Bahía, Brazil organized one of the best recorded slave rebellions in the Americas.”
@OXIOXIForever@NRO Sowell represents a new strain of Black conservatism - one that Baldwin wasn't probably familiar with. I think Sowell was a Marxist when Baldwin was debating Buckley. The Sowell strain of black conservatism, I think it is largely a byproduct of white immigrants fleeing Europe.
@OXIOXIForever@NRO It's another neo-conservative failure; a (colorblind) attempt to address issues of color without actually addressing Black people. It's a very presumptuous ideology.
And, that makes it rash.
@OXIOXIForever@NRO Unlike, with Asian, Hispanic. European (Jewish) immigrants -- Africans didn't want to come here. They were forced here. And, they were forced to build the place. And, now, everybody and their mamma wanna come.
We have watched and listened from the mountains!
We have watched with disgust!
―M'Baki
"A mother unleashed a piercing scream as her baby was ripped from her arms during a slave auction. Even as a lash cut her back, she refused to put her baby down and climb atop an auction block.The woman pleaded for God’s mercy."
As #TimScott, the only Black Republican senator prepares to respond to Biden, it is worth remembering--"Why African Americans left the #GOP!" #BidenAddress
"This decline can be attributed to a general upswing in Lily-White challenges across the South".
"This decline can be attributed to a general upswing in Lily-White challenges across the South – initiated with President Herbert Hoover’s blessing ." broadstreet.blog/2020/09/14/the…
Republican Politics and the American South, 1865–1968
"The path toward Lily-White control, and the subsequent nature of white rule in the state GOP, was dependent (at least in part) on the unique historical context in each state."
"We shall marshal our FORCES to elect a President opposed to the domination of slavery."
— Alvan E. Bovay, GOP founder (March 20, 1854)
Racial Slavery Denialism
“It does not argue that the Transatlantic Slave Trade did not happen, instead claims that it does not matter, that it has no legacy.“
— Liam Hogan
"False equivalence and an endless dishonest minimisation are characteristics of both Racial slavery denialism and Holocaust denialism.The system of racialised perpetual hereditary chattel slavery that was developed in the New World by Europeans has NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY ..
"In the 1960s, William Rehnquist and friends launched “Operation Eagle Eye“ in“Operation Eagle Eye“ the Southwest where they would send “poll watchers“ to threaten and intimidate Native American, Hispanic and Black voters.''
"The Republican Party engaged in “Operation Eagle Eye,” a national effort ostensibly aimed at reducing voter fraud that included monitoring polling places, photographing voters, and challenging voters suspected of breaking voting laws. Many of these activities occurred in heavily
When they found America lynched from a Georgia tree; they asked how -- why? And, a weeping black child shouted from the mountains, “I saw them. I watched them. I saw it. They killed her. They said, she kept dancing with the Africans and the Mexicans."
"Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity."