Principal Bill Nolte tried it.
This is all you need to know:
This might be a short thread...so buckle up...
In my book The Cooking Gene. I had to deal with the legacy of cotton. I used to go picking cotton for long days. An Antebellum bale was about 400 pounds of picked cotton.
Hardscrabble poor white folks or as one author put it "Dixie's Forgotten People" didn't get the whip. Their mothers were not r*aped to humiliate them, their children&husbands. They were often deputized against Black folks&were used as a racial football to maintain planter power.
The largest forced migration of born Americans was the Domestic Slave Trade. It involved the rupture and movement of hundreds of thousands of Black men, women and children. From 1790 to 1861 a Black person could expect to be sold 2-3 times in their working life.
From 1830-1860 a Black person was sold every 3 minutes on average
Cotton made up something like 2/3 of America's economic export value...not counting tobacco, rice, sugar, wheat, corn, hemp, coal, fish, and other commodities gained by enslaved labor.
The most valuable thing America had as a whole...its almost 5 million enslaved Blacks. The most valuable thing full stop was the womb of the Black woman. READ THAT AGAIN.
A white worker could not be worked to death.
A white worker could not be sold.
A white worker didn't know the terror of being sold on an auction block, having their genitals and secondary sex organs examined before a crowd.
This isn't about poor people.
This is about the false equivalency of comparing the South's freeborn white peasant class with the enslaved when it suits hypocrites and associating them with the planter aristocracy and their descendants when it doesn't.
This is my 3rd great grandfather, Captain Richard Henry Bellamy, Confederate States of America. This is his daughter, by a 13 year old girl. She worked as his damn maid. He fought hard to deny Black people the vote. I have receipts so don't come up in my mentions to f*ck w/me.

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There's a difference between that sanctimonious bullshit about "victimhood," (imma tell you how to feel after making your life hell) and living under constant pressure from people who don't like you just for being who you can't help but be.
I am worried about everyone. Immigrants from Haiti and Latin America, disabled folks ignored in this COVID era, Muslim families split apart, women losing rights, equal pay and authority over their own bodies, trans ppl feeling unsafe. People are still hungry&homeless.
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The comment Whoopi made was myopic and uninformed at best, but its based on American not Hitler's Germany issues. To many Jews are a faith community, or assimilation into "whiteness," in America has made them "white" but...
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Oh yeah...
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Cont.
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5. That Jews had lives before our traumas.
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Vote. Do not be apathetic.
17 percent of the population determines over a quarter of its election results.
And you must vote local, state and national.
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So re: Thomas Jefferson book
Context
Context
Context
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GO TO PLANTATIONS AND KEEP THEM HONEST
PUSH BACK AGAINST LITERATURE THAT INAPPROPRIATELY WHITEWASHES HISTORY.
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