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We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Examining American history for evidence of oppression is a disturbingly easy task. Even a skim reveals a thick layer of scum.
The great rigging began about 400 years ago, when around 20 slaves were brought to Jamestown. The white settlers wrote laws that placed slaves and indentured servants in different categories -- allowing poor whites to be slave overseers and permitting black slaves to be punished more harshly. Virginia’s colonial government determined that baptism would not confer freedom on slaves -- effectively allowing some Christians to own other Christians. Across the colonies, slavery began to be associated with skin color.
Many Christians employed the Bible to defend slavery, but in the late 18th century some Enlightenment science also purported to prove black racial inequality. The American Constitution did not recognize the full personhood of African Americans. One of the early acts of the new republic was to restrict citizenship to white males. In 1854, the California Supreme Court invoked a California state law that said, “no black or mulatto person, or Indian, shall be allowed to give evidence in favor of, or against a white man.” In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that blacks have “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”
https://www.gctelegram.com/news/20190406/white-supremacy-must-be-undone
The great rigging began about 400 years ago, when around 20 slaves were brought to Jamestown. The white settlers wrote laws that placed slaves and indentured servants in different categories -- allowing poor whites to be slave overseers and permitting black slaves to be punished more harshly. Virginia’s colonial government determined that baptism would not confer freedom on slaves -- effectively allowing some Christians to own other Christians. Across the colonies, slavery began to be associated with skin color.
Many Christians employed the Bible to defend slavery, but in the late 18th century some Enlightenment science also purported to prove black racial inequality. The American Constitution did not recognize the full personhood of African Americans. One of the early acts of the new republic was to restrict citizenship to white males. In 1854, the California Supreme Court invoked a California state law that said, “no black or mulatto person, or Indian, shall be allowed to give evidence in favor of, or against a white man.” In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that blacks have “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”
https://www.gctelegram.com/news/20190406/white-supremacy-must-be-undone