Seriously, How Did We Go From This to Where We Are Today?

Started by Navyman, June 10, 2020, 11:34:07 PM

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Navyman

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Like at what point in history did we go wrong, for it to get flipped like this?

I'm asking a serious question. And I'm doing my research on these things.


Like I just found out San Diego had an entire thriving black communities and businesses and they got pushed out due to being by the water and having all the benefits down here.

Is there a specific point these demons plotted and schemed there space in society?

yummy

I mean, it's not that shocking when you really look into how systemic racism is and how it's impacted just about every facet of our lives. Let's take a look at the list:

"redlining" certain neighborhoods ands entire cities to segregate communties
whitewashing the school curriculum to paint certain historical figures as martyrs and heroes
mob violence destroying entire economic clusters (see: Tulsa Massacre of 1921)
the Reagan administration's "war on drugs" which segued to mass incarceration
funding being snatched from schools in black & brown areas to fund a militarized police force

all that combined with the daily microaggressions we have to deal with from racist non black people, it's truly a marvel that black people didn't band together burn this entire country to the ground ages ago.

but oh well...

jtwoeleven

There's tons of literature that speaks to how we got to where we are. White racism has never really taken its foot off our necks. We went from slavery, to sharecropping, to debt peonage, to convict leasing, to black codes, to Jim Crow, to white mob violence, etc.

There's a consistent line that can be drawn from today's systemic racism problems and the past. One book I'd recommend is Douglas Blackmon's "Slavery By Another name". He gives various accounts how slavery was never really abolished, but took on new forms in a somewhat hidden manner, and how that extended up until the 1940s.

MelMel

Quote from: animmai. on June 11, 2020, 12:42:09 AM
I mean, it's not that shocking when you really look into how systemic racism is and how it's impacted just about every facet of our lives. Let's take a look at the list:

"redlining" certain neighborhoods ands entire cities to segregate communties
whitewashing the school curriculum to paint certain historical figures as martyrs and heroes
mob violence destroying entire economic clusters (see: Tulsa Massacre of 1921)
the Reagan administration's "war on drugs" which segued to mass incarceration
funding being snatched from schools in black & brown areas to fund a militarized police force

all that combined with the daily microaggressions we have to deal with from racist non black people, it's truly a marvel that black people didn't band together burn this entire country to the ground ages ago.

but oh well...

:stressed:

Navyman

Quote from: animmai. on June 11, 2020, 12:42:09 AM
I mean, it's not that shocking when you really look into how systemic racism is and how it's impacted just about every facet of our lives. Let's take a look at the list:

"redlining" certain neighborhoods ands entire cities to segregate communties
whitewashing the school curriculum to paint certain historical figures as martyrs and heroes
mob violence destroying entire economic clusters (see: Tulsa Massacre of 1921)
the Reagan administration's "war on drugs" which segued to mass incarceration
funding being snatched from schools in black & brown areas to fund a militarized police force

all that combined with the daily microaggressions we have to deal with from racist non black people, it's truly a marvel that black people didn't band together burn this entire country to the ground ages ago.

but oh well...


You kinda JUMPED a few things here. I can understand the systemic slavery element at the time it happened. I'm talking about being moors, top of the top taught them math, chemistry, introduced chemicals, oils, soap, taught them how to read, write etc to ending up in chains and being stripped and brainwashed of everything; our truth.

Like how did that happen.