There is so much in the article, but I bulleted what I thought was most interesting.
Bullet points
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So much to unpack...
The whole idea that Africans in Africa were lazy and did not know anything is a damn lie, the idea that we - ADOS (or our ancestors) – were here to only pick cotton is a damn lie. Early Europeans COULD NOT SURVIVE IN AMERICA WITHOUT AFRICAN KNOWLEDGE! They did not know how to survive here and needed Africans to help teach them and labor for them. That is the only reason… All this knowledge was buried and “lost” once Europeans learned how to survive, and they condition those of us that are labeled “Black” to be child-like – entertaining them via sports, music, art, etc.… They purposefully condition us to be this way because it hinders us from what WE CAN BECOME. We were the doctors, the farmers, the architects for them. Do not forget it either. And remember when you see other Black people acting a damn fool and childlike, just know that is what white people want.
Bullet points
- By categorizing humans by “race,” a new hierarchy was invented based on what many considered science.
- The words “race,” “white,” and “slave” were all used by Europeans in the 1500s, and they brought these words with them to North America
- The term “race,” used infrequently before the 1500s, was used to identify groups of people with a kinship or group connection.
- Over centuries, the false notion that “white” people were inherently smarter, more capable, and more human than nonwhite people became accepted worldwide.
- The “white people” concept came about during 1613 and was used to differentiate the English from East Indians.
- Before 1613, “white” was only used to described English women that did not need to work – a term for high-class English women. This occurred between the years 1550 and 1600.
- As the concept of being white evolved, the number of people considered white would grow as people wanted to push back against the increasing numbers of people of color, due to emancipation and immigration.
- European colonists’ use of the word “white” to refer to people who looked like themselves, grew to become entangled with the word “race” and “slave” in the American colonies in the mid-1660s. These elites created “races” of “savage” Indians, “subhuman” Africans, and “white” men. The social inventions succeeded in uniting the white colonists, dispossessing, and marginalizing native people, and permanently enslaving most African-descended people for generations. Tragically, American culture, from the very beginning, developed around the ideas of race and racism.
- In the early 1600s English Settlers used African, European Indentured Servants, and Indigenous peoples for labor. These groups comingled with one another and their “enslavement” status was not permanent. Over time, that would change.
- As the survival of European immigrants increased, there were more demands for land and the labor needed to procure wealth. Indentured servitude lost its attractiveness as it became economically less profitable to utilize servants of European descent. White settlers began to turn to slavery as the primary source of forced labor in many of the colonies. African people were seen as more desirable slaves because they brought advanced farming skills, carpentry, and bricklaying skills, as well as metal and leatherworking skills. Characterizations of Africans in the early period of colonial America were mostly positive, and the colonists saw their future as dependent on this source of labor.
Historical Foundations of Race
American society developed the notion of race early in its formation to justify its new economic system of capitalism, which depended on the institution of forced labor, especially the enslavement of African peoples. To more accurately understand how race and its counterpart, racism, are woven...
So much to unpack...
The whole idea that Africans in Africa were lazy and did not know anything is a damn lie, the idea that we - ADOS (or our ancestors) – were here to only pick cotton is a damn lie. Early Europeans COULD NOT SURVIVE IN AMERICA WITHOUT AFRICAN KNOWLEDGE! They did not know how to survive here and needed Africans to help teach them and labor for them. That is the only reason… All this knowledge was buried and “lost” once Europeans learned how to survive, and they condition those of us that are labeled “Black” to be child-like – entertaining them via sports, music, art, etc.… They purposefully condition us to be this way because it hinders us from what WE CAN BECOME. We were the doctors, the farmers, the architects for them. Do not forget it either. And remember when you see other Black people acting a damn fool and childlike, just know that is what white people want.
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