Thread by @blackrepublican

“If you are silent about your pain, they will kill you [blame everything on you] and say you enjoyed it.”

― Zora Neale Hurston

#GeorgeFloyd
#BlackLivesMatter
#AhmaudAubrey

When they want the pathology (NATURE of the social disease) to be BLACK (unique to BLACK people) they are race conscious, collectivist. But, when evidence suggest

... but, when evidence suggest "the earliest most capital-intensive forms of Atlantic interaction.... The largest intercontinental migration in history before the mid-1800s" they are individualistic and color-blind"

They never take responsibility.

We were the Brong, the Yoruba, the Igbo, the Akan people. But White Supremacy and her wicked sister colonialism couldn’t process all that diversity, just too much multiculturalism to engage; and so the two settled for one word to describe millions — BLACK.

Black folk didn't invent the word "black" to describe 50+ African tribes. White people thrust the black Identity on us, to mark/mock us. But,The Blacks have decided to embrace the adjective and turn into good what was meant for evil.

Marcus Garvey (a black conservative) talks about God in relationship to his blackness! If people instinctively see Jesus in their mind's eye, as a white European, (when he was not a European) why can't black people see Jesus through the eyes of Ethiopia?

"Race was invented by White Europeans and perfected in American courts."

shsu.edu/~jll004/vabeac…

"The concept of race, w/categories "White/Black", was invented by British colonialists in Barbados, then transplanted to colonial Virginia, and was used in the US and elsewhere to divide indentured servants from slaves from indigenous people according to labor roles."

"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 Virginia House of Delegates, formerly known as the House of Burgesses [is] the oldest continuously elected law-making body in the Western Hemisphere; the legislature where George Washington, Jefferson, and Madison once sat".

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

"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…

"You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever."

#BlackHistoryMonth

"There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that they must accept you. The terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them...
#BlackHistoryMonth

And I mean that very SERIOUSLY. You must accept them and accept them with love. For these innocent people have no other hope.

They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it.

... They have had to believe for many years, and for innumerable reasons, that black men are inferior to white men. Many of them, indeed, know better, but, as you will discover, people find it very difficult to act on what they know."

- James Baldwin

“It is a terrible paradox, but those who believed that they could control and define Black people divested themselves of the power to control and define themselves.”

— James Baldwin “On Being ‘White’ … and Other Lies“

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

"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."

--- James Baldwin

"The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were all freedom-loving heroes, that they were born in the greatest country the world has ever seen,

... or that Americans are invincible in battle and wise in peace, that Americans have always dealt honorably with Mexicans and Indians and all other neighbors or inferiors, that American men are the world's most direct and virile, that American women are pure.

Negroes know far more about white Americans than that; it can almost be said, in fact, that they know about white Americans what parents—or, anyway, mothers—know about their children, and that they very often regard white Americans that way.

And perhaps this attitude, held in spite of what they know and have endured, helps to explain why Negroes, on the whole, and until lately, have allowed themselves to feel so little hatred.

The tendency has really been, insofar as this was possible, to dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing.

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

"How can one respect, let alone adopt, the values of a people who do not, on any level whatever, live the way they say they do, or the way they say they should?

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

"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,

... that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it. One can be, indeed one must strive to become, tough and philosophical concerning destruction and death, for this is what most of mankind has been ...

... best at since we have heard of man. (But remember: most of mankind is not all of mankind.)

But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

I am not a ward of America, I am not an object of missionary charity, I am one of the people who built the country--until this moment comes there is scarcely any hope for the American dream. If the people are denied participation in it, by their very presence they will wreck it."

“Negroes - Sweet and docile,
Meek, humble, and kind; Beware the day -
They change their mind”.

-- Langston Hughes