Thread by @blackrepublican

@CNN 25 years AFTER the Civil War.
132 years ago ...

"However, in 1888, the struggle was begun by the organization of "white Republican clubs," for the purpose of controlling the county conventions"

— Maud Cuney Hare

@CNN The Lily White Republicans

"He spoke with no bridled tongue of the political OUTRAGES in #Arkansas and #FortBend County, #Texas, and stated that he recognized the fight was to OVERTHROW the Negro Republicans in the State."

#BHM

- Maud Cuney-Hare

@CNN Whenever the "lily-white, conservatives are told that they have to share this space that is ours; share it with an individual or with ideas, experiences, that challenges them; they quickly label that idea, individual, community, a threat, a relativist, a cultural Marxist.

@CNN The irony is that these attacks on academia - attacks on ideas, employ the same authoritarian tactics that they claim they're against!

They weaponise lies and fascistic language inorder to enforce group pressure.

The goal: The banning of ideas that they do not like.

@CNN The first victims of Lily-White Conservatism -- Authentic Black Conservatism (not fame oriented). It rewards those minority conservatives who compliment the "lily-white" conservative view, and often marginalizes conservatives of color who disagree with that view

@CNN It won't stop with just black people. It will ban any idea that won't bend the knee to White Supremacy. It will go after Asian studies, Muslim, Hispanic.

It's been doing this for over a century.

@CNN If you don't sue or fight back; it'll only help the loud and the vile cement power; while the reasoned and descent are mocked!

It's a sort of Right-Wing Communism, wherein loyalty, to the party, is of more value than loyalty to one's conscience.

@CNN The party will never win a majority of minorities (Blacks, Asians, Jews, Muslims, Arabs) because their interest groups (largely white) need a safe-space, and they don't like to share their safe-space with identities that don't conform to their Lily White narrative of reality.

@CNN Let their cruelty, their fakeness, and their indifference be the spark that forces us to lay our buckets down where we are. Let's build a BOLD & BLACK an unapolgetic conservative counter to Black Progressivism, Colorblind & Lily White Conservatism, neither of whom represents us.

@CNN “… If I'm not a nigger and you invented him -- you, the white people, invented him -- then you've got to find out why. And the future of the country depends on that, whether or not it's able to ask that question."

— James Baldwin

@CNN "I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it. And I know, which is much worse, and this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will EVER forgive them,

@CNN ... that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it.

@CNN “The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro.”

— Baldwin vs. William F. Buckley ( founder of the @NRO) 18.02.1965

“I picked the cotton, and I carried it to the market, and I built the railroads for nothing. For nothing!

@CNN @NRO "What one begs American people to do, for all sakes, is simply to accept our history."

@CNN @NRO 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

@CNN @NRO NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.
NO EQUIVALENT IN HISTORY.

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

— @Limerick1914

@CNN @NRO @Limerick1914 The second most powerful 🙌political party in the world, is due to black pain.

A Race Based INSTITUTION (The Republican Party) is created to abolish another NEW institution: RACIAL Slavery.

@CNN @NRO @Limerick1914 Arabian, Roman, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Slavic, Cushite. Kingdom of Benin, all the slaves of antiquity, wondering "What the (f) is this?"

@CNN @NRO @Limerick1914 Albanians, Bulgarians, Africans, saying: "We've seen all sorts of slavery. But. we ain't never seen nothin' like this!! WTF! You enslaved an entire fucking skin-tone -- sold them before they were even born?"

@CNN @NRO @Limerick1914 "And, we, thought Caligula was fucking crazy' ....

@CNN @NRO @Limerick1914 - 250 + years of race-based slavery
- 90 years of Jim Crow
- 60 years of Seperate but Equal
-100+ years of The Lily-white movement in the Republican Party

@CNN @NRO @Limerick1914 A Most Dissimilar Thing

"NEVER in world history were slaves considered chattel (due to race) until modern times.”

— Dr. David Neiman

@CNN @NRO @Limerick1914 Why Racial Slavery Matters

it's a guide to how the events of the past, shape people's attitudes, TODAY!

(Encyclopedia) - "However, the reconstruction of the Americas after 1492 led to a system of slavery quite unprecedented in human experience. Slavery in the Americas ...

@CNN @NRO @Limerick1914 "African slavery in the Americas, then, was a relatively recent development in the course of human history—and quite exceptional in the universal history of slave societies."

@CNN @NRO @Limerick1914 #DissimilaritiesMatter

Ira Berlin explains:

"Soon after Bacon's Rebellion they increasingly distinguish between people of African descent and people of European descent. They enact laws which say that people of African descent are hereditary slaves."

@CNN @NRO @Limerick1914 And they increasingly give some power to independent white farmers and land holders . . .

Since it'll be banned: PAY. ATTENTION.

"Now what is interesting about this is that we normally say that slavery and freedom are opposite things—that they are diametrically opposed ...

@CNN @NRO @Limerick1914 .... But what we see here in Virginia in the late 17th century, around Bacon's Rebellion, is that freedom and slavery are created at The Same Moment."

@CNN @NRO @Limerick1914 Two dissimilar identities formed on the same land; one African -- one European.

@CNN @NRO @Limerick1914 "According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first appearance in print of the adjective white in reference to “a white man, a person of a race distinguished by a light complexion” was in 1671."

@CNN @NRO @Limerick1914 "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…

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

— Charisse C. Levchak