Blacks people were enslaved in this land longer than we've been free. And our constant plotting for liberation led white Americans to develop a fear of Black people as an "internal enemy" that remains embedded in our national psyche. #1619hulu Ep. 5 FEAR. Out now. @lesliemalex
In #1619hulu FEAR, Historian @lesliemalex tells us how the surveillance, policing and vigilanteism that Black Americans experience daily have their roots in the slave patrols, which deputized all white people to stop, question, and search Black people they thought suspicious.
The FEAR episode of #1619hulu shows the white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery were acting out a long America tradition. And how policing in America for Black people has largely been about social control.
Weaponry used against Black and brown people in Vietnam, the Caribbean and Latin America was brought back to the US and deployed against America's internal enemy: Black American citizens rebelling against their oppression. @elizabhinton in the FEAR ep of #1619Hulu #1619Project
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