WHITE SUPREMACY'S LAND AND POWER
The American doctrine of white supremacy was born of colonial necessity, in 1666, after the frightening "Nathaniel Bacon Rebellion. " "White" supremacy's objectives were definite and concrete, to retain wealth, and and power by dividing and conquering the indentured servants by color.
This way their former competitive coalescence against the colonial rulers for the acquisition of Indian lands would be thwarted! Instead these new "whites," now newly assured of being equipped with "free law" accouterments: small amounts of cash, tools, dray animals, seed, and smaller land allotments--when freed from their indentures --would identify with the other new "white" people, of any class, history, culture or tongue , and not with their former indentured allies, "blacks." Blacks' indentures were torn up; slaves for life they became, including all descendants of black mothers.
By this "whiteness": construction,ideal, apostrophe, paradigm, norm, the large ruling colonial landowners were thereby assured retaining of real power, real wealth and all privileges. These were used to build a thriving economy and subdue a continent.
The apostrophe of "whiteness-blackness" provided tremendous profits to the colonial rulers, by irresistible subjugation and enforced ignorance . By political algorithms in "majority rule" minority repressive constitutions, brutality , injustice and racism they preserved themselves and forged an enduring constitutional legacy.
Lesser "whites" were then deputized and paid to enforce these unjust laws that the rulers had passed to enforce the dichotomy between the black and the white people in early America.
From this firm footing in power and in land, white supremacy continues to enshrine and enshroud itself in the vestments of religion, history, law, science, commerce, education, literature, government. So it has come down to us in 2018 in the Presidency of Donald John Trump, who wears substantially similar white supremacy garb, vestments, only with broader phylacteries, borders to accommodate more low-level, passé blanc, groups like Hispanics, whose emigrant children are now being dispossessed, as were black slaves' children for centuries.
I said all of this to say that: as land and power are white supremacy's economic , cultural and political foundations ; desperately fervent appeals to "white" morality, apart from land and power moves by blacks and others, to acquire land and power, individually, and collectively, are doomed, misplaced measures falling far short!
Saturday, June 23, 2018
WHITE SUPREMACY'S LAND AND POWER
WHITE SUPREMACY'S LAND AND POWER
The American doctrine of white supremacy was born of colonial necessity, in 1666, after the frightening "Nathaniel Bacon Rebellion. " "White" supremacy's objectives were definite and concrete, to retain wealth, and and power by dividing and conquering the indentured servants by color.
This way their former competitive coalescence against the colonial rulers for the acquisition of Indian lands would be thwarted! Instead these new "whites," now newly assured of being equipped with "free law" accouterments: small amounts of cash, tools, dray animals, seed, and smaller land allotments--when freed from their indentures --would identify with the other new "white" people, of any class, history, culture or tongue , and not with their former indentured allies, "blacks." Blacks' indentures were torn up; slaves for life they became, including all descendants of black mothers.
By this "whiteness": construction,ideal, apostrophe, paradigm, norm, the large ruling colonial landowners were thereby assured retaining of real power, real wealth and all privileges. These were used to build a thriving economy and subdue a continent.
The apostrophe of "whiteness-blackness" provided tremendous profits to the colonial rulers, by irresistible subjugation and enforced ignorance . By political algorithms in "majority rule" minority repressive constitutions, brutality , injustice and racism they preserved themselves and forged an enduring constitutional legacy.
Lesser "whites" were then deputized and paid to enforce these unjust laws that the rulers had passed to enforce the dichotomy between the black and the white people in early America.
From this firm footing in power and in land, white supremacy continues to enshrine and enshroud itself in the vestments of religion, history, law, science, commerce, education, literature, government. So it has come down to us in 2018 in the Presidency of Donald John Trump, who wears substantially similar white supremacy garb, vestments, only with broader phylacteries, borders to accommodate more low-level, passé blanc, groups like Hispanics, whose emigrant children are now being dispossessed, as were black slaves' children for centuries.
I said all of this to say that: as land and power are white supremacy's economic , cultural and political foundations ; desperately fervent appeals to "white" morality, apart from land and power moves by blacks and others, to acquire land and power, individually, and collectively, are doomed, misplaced measures falling far short!