Once we understand that "racism" was invented in America in the 17th century--having nowhere existed previously in Europe; although it did exist in certain Islamic communities from the 9th century forward, to judge from Al-Jahiz's retaliatory 9th century work, titled THE SUPERIORITY OF THE BLACK OVER THE WHITE, where he strikes back against white racism in Islam --we become free. The truth will have set us free! While colonial rulers found it to be expedient to use the false construct of racism to divide black indentured servants from white indentured servants to maintain power, to justify disparity, and to facilitate control over both groups by preferring one over the other in law and business. President Thomas Jefferson hints at this fact subliminally and tacitly in his book: NOTES OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA (1785), in "Query XIV." Upon such a true and correct understanding of racism's beginning, especially that the first "servant for life"--black slave-- was owned by a black man the 1660's, Anthony Johnson, which was awarded by reason of a Virginia court decision, this nation's subsequent history also becomes plain, including the present Presidential sweepstakes of Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, which rests upon these premises.
Monday, October 24, 2016
UNDERSTANDING AMERICAN RACISM
Once we understand that "racism" was invented in America in the 17th century--having nowhere existed previously in Europe; although it did exist in certain Islamic communities from the 9th century forward, to judge from Al-Jahiz's retaliatory 9th century work, titled THE SUPERIORITY OF THE BLACK OVER THE WHITE, where he strikes back against white racism in Islam --we become free. The truth will have set us free! While colonial rulers found it to be expedient to use the false construct of racism to divide black indentured servants from white indentured servants to maintain power, to justify disparity, and to facilitate control over both groups by preferring one over the other in law and business. President Thomas Jefferson hints at this fact subliminally and tacitly in his book: NOTES OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA (1785), in "Query XIV." Upon such a true and correct understanding of racism's beginning, especially that the first "servant for life"--black slave-- was owned by a black man the 1660's, Anthony Johnson, which was awarded by reason of a Virginia court decision, this nation's subsequent history also becomes plain, including the present Presidential sweepstakes of Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, which rests upon these premises.