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Post by Admin on Jun 22, 2020 12:08:04 GMT
The Atlantic Slave Trade Visualized in Two Minutes: 10 Million Lives, 20,000 Voyages, Over 315 Years in Animation, Education, History, Online Courses | June 14th, 2016 www.openculture.com/2016/06/the-atlantic-slave-trade-visualized-in-two-minutes.htmlNot since the sixties and seventies, with the black power movement, flowering of Afrocentric scholarship, and debut of Alex Haley’s Roots, novel and mini-series, has there been so much popular interest in the history of slavery. We have seen Roots remade; award-winning books like Edward Baptist’s The Half Has Never Been Told climb bestseller lists; and The Freedman’s Bureau Project’s digitization of 1.5 million slavery-era documents gives citizen-scholars the tools to research the history on their own. In addition to these developments, Slate magazine has designed a multipart, multimedia course, “The History of American Slavery,” as part of its online educational initiative, “Slate Academy.” Hosted by Slate’s Jamelle Bouie and Rebecca Onion and featuring guest historians like Baptist, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Annette Gordon-Reed, Eric Foner and more, this thorough survey consists of a nine-part podcast, with copious supplementary essays, book excerpts, and other resources drawing on primary documents and artifacts. One supplement, the animation above, shows us the “The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes.”
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Post by Admin on Jun 22, 2020 12:11:01 GMT
'The greatest trick racism ever pulled was convincing England it doesn't exist' How Britain failed to deal with systemic racism By Laura Smith-Spark, Nima Elbagir and Barbara Arvanitidis, CNN edition.cnn.com/2020/06/22/europe/black-britain-systemic-racism-cnn-poll-gbr-intl/index.htmlUpdated 0715 GMT (1515 HKT) June 22, 2020 London (CNN) — Racism in Britain may attract less global attention than in the United States, but it is no less present -- and Black Britons say it is past time for the country to face up to its colonial history and act to stamp out racial inequalities. The police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, in Minneapolis sparked global protests over police brutality and racial inequality despite an ongoing pandemic which has had a disproportionate impact on ethnic minorities in the UK and US. In Britain, where public trust in institutions has been eroded by examples of systemic racism over decades, thousands have turned out to join Black Lives Matter protests despite pleas from the government for people to stay home. And an exclusive CNN/Savanta ComRes poll reveals a divided nation, where Black people are twice as likely as White people to say they have not been treated with respect by police. Black people are also about twice as likely as White people to say UK police are institutionally racist -- among White people, just over a quarter believe it. Exposing further division, nearly two in three Black people say the UK has not done enough to address historical racial injustice, twice the proportion of White people who say that. The CNN poll has been released as the UK marks Windrush Day, introduced in 2018 to celebrate the arrival on June 22, 1948 of the Empire Windrush. The ship carried the first large group of Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean to Britain -- at the invitation of the government -- to rebuild the country after World War II. But the Windrush generation and their children say they continue to suffer as a result of policies pursued by Conservative governments. Some lost their jobs, while others were evicted from their homes or faced deportation after decades living in Britain legally. Glenda Caesar, who traveled with her parents from Dominica to Britain as a baby in 1961, says she suddenly lost her job as an administrator with the National Health Service in 2009 as she was unable to provide the necessary documentation. She fell into debt, unable to pay her bills without a wage, and nearly lost her home, she said.
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Post by Admin on Jun 22, 2020 13:39:43 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 22, 2020 18:03:35 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 23, 2020 5:04:05 GMT
W.E.B. Du Bois explains how poor whites have historically sided with white supremacy and the ruling class, thus fortifying their own class oppression:
"The system of slavery demanded a special police force and such a force was made possible and unusually effective by the presence of the poor whites. This explains the difference between the slave revolts in the West Indies, and the lack of effective revolt in the Southern United States. In the West Indies, the power over the slave was held by the whites and carried out by them and such Negroes as they could trust. In the South, on the other hand, the great planters formed proportionately quite as small a class but they had singularly enough at their command some five million poor whites; that is, there were actually more white people to police the slaves than there were slaves.
Considering the economic rivalry of the black and white worker in the North, it would have seemed natural that the poor white would have refused to police the slaves. But two considerations led him in the opposite direction. First of all, it gave him work and some authority as overseer, slave driver, and member of the patrol system. But above and beyond this, it fed his vanity because it associated him with the masters. Slavery bred in the poor white a dislike of Negro toil of all sorts. He never regarded himself as a laborer, or as part of any labor movement. If he had any ambition at all it was to become a planter and to own ‘niggers.’ To these Negroes he transferred all the dislike and hatred which he had for the whole slave system.
The result was that the system was held stable and intact by the poor white. Even with the late ruin of Haiti before their eyes, the planters, stirred as they were, were nevertheless able to stamp out slave revolt. The dozen revolts of the eighteenth century had dwindled to the plot of Gabriel in 1800, Vesey in 1822, of Nat Turner in 1831, and crews of the Amistad and Creole in 1839 and 1841. Gradually the whole white South became an armed and commissioned camp to keep Negroes in slavery and to kill the black rebel."
(From 'Black Reconstruction in America')
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Post by Admin on Jun 23, 2020 5:04:39 GMT
W.E.B. Du Bois explains how poor whites have historically sided with white supremacy and the ruling class, thus fortifying their own class oppression: A vast amount of truth in that statement.
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Post by naominash3 on Jun 23, 2020 6:36:46 GMT
W.E.B. Du Bois explains how poor whites have historically sided with white supremacy and the ruling class, thus fortifying their own class oppression: A vast amount of truth in that statement. Du Bois A mulatto ahead of his time. However, I personally prefer to read the autobiography and works of Booker T. Washington. Enslaved as a child, Booker would go on to buy himself out of slavery and create the Tuskegee Institute. My favorite work by him, however is his Autobiography, Up From Slavery. I compare him, in my mind, to Frederick Douglas. Just because you experience slavery, that doesn't mean it has to define you. That is the " mental slave" that Talib Kweli and Mos Def refer to on their hit album, " Black Star".
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Post by naominash3 on Jun 23, 2020 6:37:12 GMT
We Need Solidarity, Not White Guilt, to Fight Racism BY HADAS THIER The well-intentioned drive among white progressives to “check their privilege” or “take responsibility” for their unconscious biases won’t do much to fight racism. But forging real solidarity through concrete campaigns, protests, and movements can. jacobinmag.com/2020/06/racism-george-floyd-racial-justice-protests-privilegeDing
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Post by Admin on Jun 23, 2020 14:02:42 GMT
Fight capitalism to smash racist system socialistworker.co.uk/art/50260/Fight+capitalism+to+smash+racist+systemRight wingers are trying to create a backlash against the fantastic Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. First they said that people protesting were spreading coronavirus. Now they say the BLM movement is racist. An article in the Telegraph newspaper at the weekend argued that BLM protests are “a catalyst for antisemitism”. The explanation for this was that some anti-racists are critical of Israel because of its oppression of Palestinians. The Israeli state is based on oppression and violence. Opposing it is not antisemitic—many Jewish people also oppose Israel. Right wingers attack when they feel the system they want to uphold is somehow under threat. The best way to respond is to keep building the movement. It has already won significant gains—for instance, promises that statues of slavers will go. And there’s potential to go much further. Lots of people on the protests rightly see that racism is ingrained into the society we live in. It isn’t simply a problem of the ideas in individual people’s heads. Systemic racism means black people are more likely to be poor than white people. They are more likely to be out of work and more likely to live in overcrowded housing. Black people are more likely to have poorer health—not because of some genetic difference but because of racism. We have to challenge racist ideas wherever they appear, including among working class people. But important as this is, it won’t change this structural racism. Revolution So we have to go further. We have to demand real changes in society—such as an end to stop and search. It is possible to win reforms. But as long as we live under capitalism, there will always be a limit to them—and our rulers will always try to push them back. Racism isn’t natural. It is something encouraged by those at the top to divide ordinary people. As part of this, our rulers try to convince working class white people that they have a stake in the system. In reality, all working class people have an interest in overthrowing it. Right wingers paint the idea of revolution as fanciful. But in fact they happen time after time because the system fails billions of people. The state, with its army and vicious police, can seem all-powerful. But the global working class is bigger than ever before and vastly outnumbers our rulers and their backers. It is possible to have a world without racism—but not while capitalism stays in place. Instead we need to fight for a socialist world where ordinary people, black and white, are in charge.
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Post by Admin on Jun 23, 2020 15:12:35 GMT
This is so true - The White Privilege of Ignoring the News JUNE 23, 2020 / JOHN PAVLOVITZ johnpavlovitz.com/2020/06/23/the-white-privilege-of-ignoring-the-news/Yesterday, an old friend of mine who happens to be white, posted her frustration with the proliferation of news sources: the difficulty discerning what was true in the swirling storm of so much information, and her exasperation at the perceived partisan nature of media. She wanted to crowdsource strategies for navigating the challenges of getting reliable information about the events of the day, when those days are so filled with turbulence. One of my other white friends chimed in with a response that dumbfounded me: “I haven’t consumed any news in two months!” he said, seemingly proud of the fact. Two months. I wanted to throw up. Then I grieved over my friend. Then I got really angry at him. If there is evidence of privilege, that’s it: to feel so insulated from adversity, so inoculated from suffering, so immune from struggle, so unaffected by reality—that you could simply turn off the news, because the act feels inconsequential to your existence. It reveals that not only do you feel the events of the day have no tangible or lasting effect on you, but you’re blissfully ignorant to the way those events are painful, invasive, and even deadly to less fortunate people who lack the luxury of being oblivious; that soft, warm, intoxicating place you’ve chose to nestle down into while the world is burning.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2020 21:49:34 GMT
I don't watch the news because I don't have a TV. I also find it infuriating as it is so biased towards certain viewpoints.
But I would think lots of people of every ethnicity and nationality who are suffering greatly don't watch it or know what's going on elsewhere either, because they are too busy trying to survive, or too poor to access the news.
Yes I am privileged but you don't have to be to not watch the news. In fact being able to access the news in some places is a real privilege.
News can also be emotionally upsetting. Fb for me could mess with my head with all the conspiracy theories. It's not always a bad thing to not watch the news. It's constant negativity and sometimes we need a break from that.
I certainly don't miss the daily dose of propaganda. That is what it is. Am not going to feel guilty for choosing to not be subjected to it.
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Post by Admin on Jun 24, 2020 15:20:12 GMT
Mar07,2004 When Europeans Were Slaves: Research Suggests White Slavery Was Much More Common Than Previously Believed news.osu.edu/when-europeans-were-slaves--research-suggests-white-slavery-was-much-more-common-than-previously-believed/A new study suggests that a million or more European Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 – a far greater number than had ever been estimated before. In a new book, Robert Davis, professor of history at Ohio State University, developed a unique methodology to calculate the number of white Christians who were enslaved along Africa’s Barbary Coast, arriving at much higher slave population estimates than any previous studies had found. Most other accounts of slavery along the Barbary coast didn’t try to estimate the number of slaves, or only looked at the number of slaves in particular cities, Davis said. Most previously estimated slave counts have thus tended to be in the thousands, or at most in the tens of thousands. Davis, by contrast, has calculated that between 1 million and 1.25 million European Christians were captured and forced to work in North Africa from the 16th to 18th centuries. Davis’s new estimates appear in the book Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 (Palgrave Macmillan).
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Post by Admin on Jun 24, 2020 15:24:36 GMT
I don't watch the news because I don't have a TV. I also find it infuriating as it is so biased towards certain viewpoints. But I would think lots of people of every ethnicity and nationality who are suffering greatly don't watch it or know what's going on elsewhere either, because they are too busy trying to survive, or too poor to access the news. Yes I am privileged but you don't have to be to not watch the news. In fact being able to access the news in some places is a real privilege. News can also be emotionally upsetting. Fb for me could mess with my head with all the conspiracy theories. It's not always a bad thing to not watch the news. It's constant negativity and sometimes we need a break from that. I certainly don't miss the daily dose of propaganda. That is what it is. Am not going to feel guilty for choosing to not be subjected to it. i see what you are saying about it all.
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Post by Admin on Jun 24, 2020 15:49:43 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 25, 2020 17:40:55 GMT
JUNE 25, 2020 The Two-Headed Hydra of Racism and Imperialism by BEHROOZ GHAMARI TABRIZI www.counterpunch.org/2020/06/25/the-two-headed-hydra-of-racism-and-imperialism/I do not intend to provide an exhaustive list of atrocities committed by the United State around the world in the name of democracy, in defense of freedom. I bring this up to insist that Black American will not be recognized as equal citizens so long as people of color around the world remain subjected to the brutality of imperialized nations such as the United States of America. The drones that kill the Iraqi, Yemeni, Pakistani, Somali civilians, the bombs, the fighter jets, the missiles and guns that are sold to the tyrants, they are all parts of the same system of oppression that brutalizes Black Americans. The Palestinians know the meaning of ghettoization in American cities. The immigrants who are dehumanized by ICE understand the depth of police brutality and the meaning of murder with impunity. These voices need to hear one another. Black America has given voice to a global movement.
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