Thread by @blackrepublican

“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

"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

"Colorblindness presumes everyone shares the same set of problems, histories & racial experiences. It sees the nation as a meritocracy, assumes equality, and sidesteps the complexities of race.”
— Leah W. Rigueur, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

"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."

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

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

"I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white.
But I was Igbo before the white man came."

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"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.'

markfordelegate.com/content/newsle…

The Invention of Race - beta.prx.org/stories/218457… via @prx

Anthony Bogues, Brown University: What is Racial Slavery?

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



#RacialSlavery
#WhiteSupremacy

How Europeans evolved white skin

Ancient DNA from skeletons shows dramatic natural selection on skin color and height in many Europeans

science.org/content/articl…

"The earliest humans developed out of australopithecine ancestors after about 3 million years ago, most likely in Eastern Africa, most likely in the area of the Kenyan Rift Valley, where the oldest known stone tools were found."

"You can’t hate the roots of a tree and not hate the 🌴 tree. You can’t hate Africa 🌍 and not hate yourself."

— Malcolm X

#Paleontology #Archaeology #Anthropology #AfricaMatters

Race is a myth. But #racism is a reality. It has a history. A history that has created our current reality. Simply put, to be race-conscious is to be AWARE of that reality!