Understanding #CriticalRaceTheory
"A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning."
— Derrick Bell
"A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief - as well as injustice - to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning."
— Derrick Bell
"The system of racialised perpetual hereditary chattel slavery that was developed in the New World by Europeans has NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY."
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
-- @Limerick1914
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
-- @Limerick1914
“The Irish man is poor, but he is NOT a slave. He may be in rags, but he is NOT a slave. He is still MASTER of his body”
— Frederick Douglass
— Frederick Douglass
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
“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
A DISSIMILAR crime in all of world history (yes, slavey had been around along time but not in this manner) was inflicted on 30+ different African tribes. This dissimilar crime had dissimilar consequences on the people most impacted b it
Why is that so hard for people to grasp?
Why is that so hard for people to grasp?
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