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THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES-
Every mindless comment and the prattle by white folks expressing shock and dismay that their "rigged court system" found the racist Donald trump guilty is as systemically racist, hypocritical, and insidious as it comes. I guess it was "rigged" because the DA, Alvin Bragg, was Black, even though everyone else in the court was white. I also guess the cry, "Let the system work," only applies when Blacks go to court. From the police to education to politics and now the court system, nothing validates white American Christian racism more than white people commenting on the integrity of institutions that they built but now "disown" as they defend and justify the actions of a racist ex-president or a racist governor. Racists today are just as racist as they were way back when, even without wearing a hood and a robe, standing in front of a burning cross.
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Blacks in America are not surprised in the least at the number of whites who still admire a convicted criminal, rapist, sexist, sexual deviant, and racist as a role model. We were indeed not surprised that white America elected their racist president "on the rebound" after eight years of an exquisite and a responsibly intelligent President Obama Administration.
When you understand and internalize racists and the nature of their racism, you know that racism is fundamentally grounded in disrespect toward those who look like me. White America anxiously yearning to vote to return "their anointed racist and his racism" to the White House is simply part of the demagogic hypocrisy, evilness, and disrespect of America's original sin. Racists "enjoyed their president" of the United States, calling African Countries "shithole countries" and telling Black female elected officials "to go back where you came from." When you understand Blacks were treated as property in this country since 1619, then you know white American Christian racism. We are simply seeing, in this generation, another cycle of white American Christian racism surfacing- racism which was supported and condoned during the American Christian Holocaust called slavery by EVERY white religious denomination. The river of racism, which continually "flows" in this country, never went anywhere. It continues to flow. For me, I still see racist America for what it is and continues to be. I have lived long enough and have dealt with experiences of white American Christian racism long enough, i.e., ALL of my life, that nothing that white American Christian racists can do and will do surprise me. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" only means something to Black folks. It means nothing to many whites in America. White folks are born into racism. It is for them, just like breathing. But that is simply the nature of white American Christian racists and their white American Christian racism, which many will re-enforce Sunday morning at whatever time their church services begin. The Struggle Continues! The ONLY quote of Dr. King you "like" to hypocritically use, especially White Republicant racist elected officials, is the one from his speech during the 1963 March on Washington when Dr. King said he had a dream that "my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Although, I must admit I also heard a local White religious "official" also use the quote. I consider him a racist also.
You quote this sentence as if it is a testimony to American equality. Understand White America, White Racist America, Dr. King knew and rightfully so, that your core racist attitudes would not let you get beyond the color of Black skin to remotely consider a Black person's character. So, Dr. King's "joke" is really on you. I laugh at your racist ignorance and the fact that you White folks think that we Black folks, do not know that, aside from your racist hypocrisy on race, your ONLY conversation is what suits your racist whim. Other than that, when it comes to race, you do not know what the H-E-Double Sticks you are talking about. White Enslavers Receive Money for Execution of Enslaved Black People in North Carolina.
On January 18, 1771, the North Carolina General Assembly approved the disbursement of public funds to enslavers as compensation for the executions of Black people they held in bondage. Nearly a dozen enslavers received money from the state, including a White man in Duplin County who was given 80 pounds—the equivalent of over $18,000 today—following the government-led execution of a man he enslaved by the name of George. In nine of 13 colonies, laws provided economic support and compensation to White people after the execution of Black people they enslaved, with the earliest compensation law established in 1705 in Virginia. In a system that subsidized enslavers and permitted the continued trafficking of humans and their summary execution, the state could enact capital punishment without consequence or complaint from enslavers. For decades, if an enslaved person was executed by the state or if an enslaved person died from injuries induced during any other corporal punishment, enslavers could receive an uncapped sum of money and up to 80 pounds by the late 1700s in North Carolina. Consequently, between 1734 and 1786, the North Carolina government authorized the execution of 86 enslaved people that involved compensation to enslavers. Critically, these executions were carried out without any formal legal process. North Carolina’s Slave Code of 1741 denied enslaved people their right to due process, founded in the belief that enslaved people were not suitable for the legal system. Enslaved people were tried before a tribunal composed of enslavers who were quick to deliver convictions and punishments, often on the same day. In 1793, this practice was re-codified in North Carolina as enslaved people were only entitled to a “trial” made up of a jury of “good and lawful men, owners of slaves.” Before imposing execution, the enslaver tribunal assigned a monetary amount that would be given to enslavers. Half of the claims approved by the North Carolina General Assembly on January 18 came in the wake of executions of enslaved people who committed “felonies” which were loosely defined and took the form of petty crimes, arson, “witchcraft,” or attempts to escape bondage. In the wake of these executions, on January 18, North Carolina dispersed nearly 1,000 pounds, or the equivalent of $230,000 today, to enslavers following the executions of 13 enslaved people. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN YEARS GONE BY, TODAY KNOWN AS DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION (DEI), IS SIMPLY A PROCESS OF RIGHTING SOME OF AMERIKKKA'S RACIST WRONGS.
Since the 1960s, right-wing racist attacks on civil rights centered on the strategic campaign from conservatives, aka racists, to galvanize White America against affirmative action, which even included White women who benefited from it, among their most successful efforts. In other words, ANY "strides" Blacks have made have come at the expense of Whites in AmeriKKKa. How totally and insidiously racist! Conservatives, aka racists, have deviously succeeded at reframing affirmative action, and now DEI, as a policy that takes away opportunity from White people, as opposed to what it is — a policy that aims to rectify the centuries-long damage from systemic racism, which is as old as the foundational documents of this country. White people are so accustomed to privilege that they consider equality OPPRESSION! It is called racism. TODAY, Jacksonville, Florida city officials sprang into action to condemn anti-semitism, as they should. But when asked about condemning racism, especially in the form of Jacksonville racist Confederate symbols, NOT SO MUCH.
Tim Wise, a White anti-racist, noted speaker, and author very famously said, "If you want to talk about racism, DO NOT ask White people. Correspondingly, if you want to talk about integrity and principles, DO NOT ask Republicants.
AMERIKKKA DID NOT JUST GET TO BE A RACIST COUNTRY. AMERIKKKA WAS FOUNDED AS A RACIST COUNTRY.1/21/2023  On January 20, 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress. Revels was elected in Mississippi to fill the vacancy left after the state’s secession from the Union prior to the Civil War. After the Confederacy's 1865 defeat in the Civil War, Reconstruction amendments to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery, established the citizenship of formerly enslaved Black people, and granted Black people civil rights—including granting Black men the right to vote. For the brief Reconstruction period, which lasted until 1877, federal officials and troops remained in Southern states and enforced these new rights. As a result, Blacks in the South were for the first time voters, political candidates, and election winners. Mr. Revels was one of those winners. However, immediately upon Mr. Revels’s arrival in Washington, Southern White racist politicians, still committed to the ideas of white supremacy and racial hierarchy, were determined to block his seating to the U.S. Congress. They declared his election null and void, asserting various dubious objections, including a claim that Mr. Revels was ineligible for the Senate because—like all Black Americans—he was not a U.S. citizen until the passage of the 14th Amendment. Hiram Revels was eventually seated in the Senate on February 25, 1870, after a Senate vote of 48 to 8. However, the attempt to prevent Mr. Revels from taking his rightful place in office was an early illustration of the deeply rooted racial animus and belief in inequality that remained in the South and in the nation that would continue to terrorize and plague Black people for generations—especially after federal protection was withdrawn. |
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