The truth is, as wrong as chattel slavery was, as evil as it was, as unprecedented as it was in its scope and its nature, chattel slavery was only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the wrongs that Whites have committed and still commit against Blacks. By shaping the narratives around race relations through media outlets, history books, and academia, Whites have been relatively successful in truncating their inhumane treatment of Blacks by reducing it to an easily dismissible 250 years of slavery. Contextualized as such, White culpability can be further undermined through the everybody enslaved everybody at one time excuse. However, in reality one can argue that the real evil against Blacks didnt really take place until after slavery had ended -- for it was then that the collective efforts to subjugate Blacks by the entire White population took place, as evidenced by the ensuing Jim Crow era and current systemic racism. By introducing a series of legal Black Codes designed for the purpose of limiting the freedom and movement of Blacks, Whites were determined to make life as unbearable as humanly possible for Blacks. Coupled with failed efforts at repatriation to Africa and the Eugenics movement, those Black Codes and Antebellum America provide a glimpse into the collective psyche of the White race as it pertained to their unhealthy obsession with the Black race and its future. 150 years later, that same obsession is now manifesting itself in every single American institution, and also in every single geo-political agenda toward the African continent. To reduce this unhealthy collective obsession with the Black race, the Jim Crow era, current systemic racism and the continuing legal Black Codes that have stunted the Black birth rate and turned this rock orbiting the sun into a living hell for people of African descent, to a mere 250 years of chattel slavery is, quite frankly, to paint a radically different picture than the much more ominously contextualized panorama of White racism.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Jul 2014 11:37:49 +0000
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