I want to start by saying that things have been more crazy lately in our country but that would be a lie. The truth is that things have always been crazy in this country, especially when it comes to its black citizens. What we are experiencing is a surge of awareness because of social media. Things have never been good for Black Americans in the U.S.. We have always live under a system of oppression built by Europeans called Racism also known as White Supremacy.
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
-Alex Haley
During the formation of this country Whites realized that the vast amount of Blacks could wake up and fight for their freedom at any time. In order to keep their businesses going they created the ideal of race and customized the majority of their laws to keep African Americans powerless. This system is the most documented one in the history of mankind yet many people still deny it. Our very Constitution was written with the oppression of Blacks in mind. The six mega media outlets were built off the degradation of Blacks. For the vast majority (pretty much all) of America’s existence Blacks were used primary as free/cheap labor, demeaning entertainment, scapegoats, and targets for aggression.
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.
-Harriet Ann Jacobs
It’s also crazy that Blacks are view often as lazy even though they literally built the majority of this nation’s major establishments. White Americans have historically and presently benefited from this free labor, building an exclusive wealth system that is restrictive towards Blacks. African Americans were only freed from slavery due to a political ploy that went wrong for the politicians (Lincoln and others). It was never meant for their benefit, they only wanted to get rid of Blacks, but it didn’t work.
Blacks began to prosper at a rate never seen in the history of the country but White Americans started to rally and protest against this new Black freedom. These protest were some of the deadliest events in U.S. history. Whites would march to where Blacks live to beat and kill them. They would bring their family and friends including kids to watch and celebrate Black bodies hanging and burning. Statistics can’t even count the amount of deaths.
Whites would burn down neighborhoods to destroy any progress that Blacks had (Google the bombing of Little African, Oklahoma which is the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil). Let’s not even go into the Jim Crow era, Civil Rights Movement, the Drug War, or the School to Prison pipeline.
My point is that Racism is a system where people of one race assert the power over another based solely or mostly from race. At this point in history it is plain evil to deny this system and its impact on the people who built this nation for free.
Throughout history revolutions have sparked, but the system just adjusted to them to maintain power. Now is the time to push harder than ever for change. We have social media to gather and organize globally. Let’s make them change the system again. We know all lives matter but our country doesn’t seem to always think Black lives do. If you think that complaining, marching, resisting police brutality, rallying, and black empowerment are reverse racism then you probably have some racist tendencies that need to be checked.
The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to 400 years of the conscious racism of the American whites.
-Malcolm X
#BlackLivesMatter #WomenLivesMatter #HispanicLivesMatter #AllLivesMatter #WhiteLivesMatterTooJustHelpChangeThisDamnSystemOfYours.EnoughPeopleHaveSufferedAndDiedForYourConvenience
-Dwayne M. Castleberry
The Kuumba Collective
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