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In reply to the discussion: This Is the America White People Wished For. This Is the America White People Want [View all]heaven05
(18,124 posts)I know, for a certain fact I have always been "lumped" as a particular person. The Word describing my personhood my whole life starts with an 'n'. So did it for my father/my primary caregiver, his father/mother and down the line until the first African slave(s) hit these shores in 1619 as an indentured servant. Granted, white people were, by and large, the same class in working for the already established and controlling rich class of Amerika.
Indentured servitude for Africans ended in 1654 when JOHN CASOR became the first African.
From then on a series of laws in the Colonies stripped away the dignity and human rights of EVERY AFRICAN, free or not landing in Amerika. Something like trump is doing with all asylum seekers of color and their CHILDREN today. All Africans free or not, Christian or not slowly became the property of the white race. I say race because an African could not hide from the then majority race, the white race. Sorry, I "lumped" again. A POC has continually been "lumped" " together with all of the same color(s) of skin.
Of course, I am sure you know that ANY white indentured servant who could no longer stand their obligation, could melt away into the crowd and be free.
I don't know if you secretly like what trump represents or not and looking at white people in the streets, it is hard to "lump" them into a group or sub-group of the white race until they become paul and paula pool police, barbeque becky's or just some damn cowardly, hateful and racist white cop shooting unarmed AA men women and children as young as 11 years old. But with AA it is easy to "lump" us all into a race and a lot of white people do. How? One-word description and the color of one's skin. No matter the gain and/or CONTRIBUTION of the AA to this racist nation, whether in the sacrifice of lives of POC, in the armed service or otherwise. In making life easier and safer for white Americans among others, that dignity and respect is stripped away, always, with one word. Hell, even President Obama could not escape that ONE WORD description. Lumped? That's lumped.
All this indignity and outrage shared in this thread by people, who could have demanded an end to racism, prejudice, and bigotry generations ago and gotten it, didn't and haven't since JOHN CASOR. The Civil and human rights of POC are in certain danger of being stripped away, again. Give me a break on the outrage and offense.
Offended? Okay. Amerika may call itself a "the melting pot". It has only granted unequivocal full citizenship to one race that could, by an entitled privilege of one's skin color, claim and hold on to ameriKKKan citizenship. The others of brown and black skin have had to fight and continue to fight, at one political and social level, for full american citizenship, respect, and dignity.
When the majority of the white voting public vote to ban racism, put it on the book , NEVER TO BE ENDANGERED by a hateful racist chump fool such as trump and his AA-administration. Then I guess all white people can stop being "lumped" together and become allies or not.
Have a good one. I am done with this thread of .......