Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Friday, November 14, 2014
'WHITENESS' SPAWNED 'HERRENVOLK'
"Whiteness" --later known as Adolph Hitler's master race ideology--'Herrenvolk '--originated here, in America, before the "Declaration of Independence," and through it, as a political, economic, and military, foil and expedient in the 1660-1680s, due to the ever-larger and ambitious African indentured servant presence, relative to Scots, Irish, Welsh, English, and others; principally to thwart and to confound the United Kingdom's evolving abolitionist aspirations for its very competitive mercantile colony, that was growing richer and richer on its own lucrative ventures into the slave trade, shipping, insurance, banking, and manufactures, says Thomas Jefferson's NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA and Gerald Horne's THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION OF 1776.