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.
Sunday, July 24, 2016
BIRTH OF RACISM
THE COLONIAL BIRTH OF AMERICAN RACISM
"Uncle Tom's" are to the "black" vanguard , WHAT white "radicals" are to the "white" vanguard. Traitorous.
Both so-called American vanguards are convenient political constructs that were contrived by clever colonial slaveholders to divide and to conquer fearsome threats posed to their ruling power in the 1660's in Virginia & Maryland , by their indentured servants, who were, then, both black and white. They were followers of later-poisoned, Nathaniel Bacon, an ostracized wealthy Virginian, whose harrowing 1676 Rebellion for access to western lands and trade, resulted in the recall of the British governor, William Berkeley. This was the first American revolution, the invention of racism, as the racist paradigm for continued rule.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_Rebellion
These still-divided vanguards yet underlie and form the American political bedrock, crudely represented by evanescent interests.