You are smarter than me. Not due to any credentials, just that you are probably more receptive to our way of formal education. I had to observe, discover and process. But I do find it ironic that we arrived on different roads and stand at the exact same intersection wondering the same thing.
Scary that history is repeating itself in a lot of ways. I believe there is more love in this world than hate and that this new administration will crumble and fail miserably.
Moved to Tx from the North and the ideal of slavery is very much alive and well. Getting something for nothing is their goal in everything they do. Never seen this kind of greed from human beings. They even have a name to justify - the Prosperity Gospel which is taught in all the Mega Churches
Prosperity gospel is even worse than something for nothing mentality. Because it teaches that if you are "good people" you will be prosperous. Ergo those who aren't are not good people. It's pretty easy to harm those you think are bad people. Pretty darn easy
black and brown as well as white americans have been instructed for 100s of years that they have little in common with whites getting their “psychological wages” of gated real estate (not so much a psychological wage), police “protection” (abuse of black men), and schools that are “exclusive.”
Yes I was just saying this it feels like conservatives or maga people create fear and hate toward all groups so we can’t unite like them. I want to love all none maga different than me even more because it’s beautiful AND because we can’t let them win
And the right, along with their Russian troll farms, have been laser focused on keeping black and brown believing they lack common goals and values both with each other and with whites. Like they studied this. 🤔
DuBois was an insightful genius. His writing never fails to rock me. (Of the Passing of the Firstborn; On the Coming of John; his response to BT Washington) Also, the way poor whites were made to hate and condescend to Blacks is one of the more pernicious evils of slavery that endures today.
In my experience poor whites have the most hate towards POC. Poverty did not bring us together. This includes white folks who grew up poor but moved up in class as adults. They were empowered to believe they were better and the systems supported their behavior. No southern hospitality for me!!
The theory of some kind of class consciousness is the problem, it has never happened and never will. Marx's concept of Class itself is clearly problematic and uselss.
Couldn't have happened without the Ds turning their backs on the working class back in the 1990s, saying, repeatedly, that "manufacturing is gone forever in America," and "just take coding."
It's that last sentence that rings the bell for me. Trump recognizes their whiteness is what I get out of that last sentence. It makes them so damn gullable. It's all psychological...🤔
I'm not by any means a huge Roland Martin fan, but he put on a very informative presentation about what the economic impact might be for Black folk. He referenced the Reconstruction period and Dr. DuBios several times. https://youtu.be/3tbXo95cxsw?si=87VGWWYRzyTuI1pX
MUSK COMMITTED FELONS TO SUPPORT SPACE-X!
EVEN THING MUSK IS DOING IS TO COVER UP THAT FACT!
MUSK DOES NOT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT ANYTHING THE ORANGE TRAITOR THINKS OR WHAT IT WANTS! MUSK IS GOING ABOUT DESTROYING ALL EVIDENCE ABOUT THE CRIMES HE COMMITTED! SELLING TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION TO RUSSIA?
As Jo Cox, (Labour MP in the UK, who was tragically murdered by a fanatic whipped up by immigration rhetoric), said
“We have more in common than that which divides us”
What boggles my mind is that they don't see it. The MAGAs (at least around me) don't seem to recognize the hypocrisy of praising and trusting a billionaire to "cut back on wasteful government spending.". As his group is given $7 million dollars for a weeks work 🙃.
During reconstruction people were starving to death. TB spread & a few short years later the Spanish flu hit a malnourished population. Corruption was rampant. Less than 20% of the south had slaves, there were white slaves as well. Poverty & greed drive discontent. Be kind even in your struggles.
I suspect she is referring to Indentured Servitude.
Those contracts could be sold and in many cases the immigrants probably were treated like slaves. However, they entered those contracts voluntarily and there was a fixed term.
You’re saying they weren’t subjected to chattel slavery? Thus not *born* into slavery? If they were born in the US & not indentured servants, who sold them into slavery? Are you perhaps talking about individual accounts of Americans selling their own children into servitude?
Wait....what side like IPOC spaces...that is segregation, just like the dems of the 60's. I don't see a party flip...just a ploy to run away from the dem's racism.
I see so many comments here attacking maga, trump and gop. You missed the message. Those you are fighting are the foolish tools of the REAL ENEMY. it’s all 99.9% of us against the 00.1% who keep us ALL fighting each other and not seeing them as they sweep the crumbs we have onto their cookie pile
Agreed, and it’s so many divisive barriers put in between us that those at the top utilize like racism, politics, religion, etc. And if we could permanently set those differences aside and find a common ground or common interest we would be unstoppable. I believe but I don’t know if it will happen.
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If it were up to the STATES? We’d STILL have slavery. Make no mistake about that.
We’re losing some serious Civil Rights ground in this Trump administration.
https://youtu.be/3tbXo95cxsw?si=87VGWWYRzyTuI1pX
EVEN THING MUSK IS DOING IS TO COVER UP THAT FACT!
MUSK DOES NOT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT ANYTHING THE ORANGE TRAITOR THINKS OR WHAT IT WANTS! MUSK IS GOING ABOUT DESTROYING ALL EVIDENCE ABOUT THE CRIMES HE COMMITTED! SELLING TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION TO RUSSIA?
“We have more in common than that which divides us”
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/american-coup-wilmington-1898/
You would reach more people, when you add a good description into the Alt-text field.
That is pretty easy, especially, when your image just contain text.
This way, you support visually impaired people and everyone else, who rely on a good filled Alt-text.
#accessibility
https://youtu.be/O7VaXlMvAvk?si=Tz_WhNYb55pDgBNQ
Those contracts could be sold and in many cases the immigrants probably were treated like slaves. However, they entered those contracts voluntarily and there was a fixed term.
Biden and Harris are Zionists, as was most of their administration. They were orchestrating an invasion.
Lead up to fascism, corruption, rot + violence is laid out like a road map.
Rightwing uses it like their playbook. We need to know it so we can recognize it, and stop it.