Steve Dustcircle 🌹<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> is creating the conditions for the return of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ricochet.media/international/america-is-creating-the-conditions-for-the-return-of-slavery/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ricochet.media/international/a</span><span class="invisible">merica-is-creating-the-conditions-for-the-return-of-slavery/</span></a></p>
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“It seems like we’re headed in the direction where there’s even an attempt to deny that the institution of #slavery even existed, or that #JimCrow laws & #segregation & #RacialViolence against Black communities, Black families, Black individuals even occurred,” said historian Clarissa Myrick-Harris, a professor at Morehouse College, the historically Black campus in Atlanta.
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#CivilRights advocates, #historians & #Black political leaders sharply rebuked #Trump on Friday for his order, entitled “Restoring Truth & Sanity to American History.” They argued that his #ExecutiveOrder targeting the #Smithsonian Institution is his admin’s latest move to downplay how #race, #racism & #BlackAmericans themselves have shaped the nation’s story.
#Trump’s order accusing the #Smithsonian Institution of not reflecting #AmericanHistory notes correctly that the country’s Founding Fathers declared that “all men are created equal.”
But it doesn’t mention that the founders enshrined #slavery into the #US #Constitution & declared enslaved persons as ⅗ of a person for the purpose of the Census.
#whitewashing #censorship #BlackAmerican #WhiteSupremacy #racism #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/trump-black-history-smithsonian-dei-687fd306dc9c6d7611300d74fe49b8aa
AP News · Historians rip Trump attacks on the 'Black Smithsonian'
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The #usa loves slavery, child slavery even more.
Mary Prince (l. c. 1788 to c. 1833) was the first enslaved Black woman to publish an autobiography/slave narrative. #History #MaryPrince #Abolitionism #Slavery #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-24270-en/
World History EncyclopediaMary PrinceMary Prince (l. c. 1788 to c. 1833) was the first enslaved Black woman to publish an autobiography/slave narrative. Prince was illiterate but dictated her life story to the writer Susanna Strickland...
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We can go back even farther. The #unitedstates is a #racist nation founded on #colonialism #exploitation #slavery and #oppression.
Public schools: The home front of a white Christian Nationalist war against a united America
#ChristianNationalism #Publicschools #education #dougwilson #confederacy #lostcauseofthesouth #dominionism #slavery #racism #AU
https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/articles/public-schools-the-homefront-of-a-white-christian-nationalist-war-against-a-united-america/
Americans United · Public schools: The home front of a white Christian Nationalist war against a united America - Americans UnitedThe same year as Brown v. Board, the United Daughters of the Confederacy published a new edition of their Confederate Catechism for Children. Originally published in 1904 — and frequently republished and modified thereafter — the white supremacist, slavery-defending pamphlet teaches Southern white children the Lost Cause, a false, romanticized accounting of the Old South as righteous and just in enslaving Black people.
T. R. Dew's A Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832 is a pro-slavery work written in response to calls for emancipation of the slaves of Virginia in the wake of Nat Turner's Rebellion of August 1831. #History #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2678-en/
World History EncyclopediaT. R. Dew's A Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832T. R. Dew's A Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832 is a pro-slavery work written in response to calls for emancipation of the slaves of Virginia in the wake of Nat Turner's...
Today In Labor History March 27, 1866: President of the United States of America Andrew Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. However, Congress overrode his veto and passed the bill, the first time this had occurred over any major legislation. The bill was the first in the U.S. to define citizenship, and to affirm equal rights under the law for all citizens, including African Americans. Johnson’s rationale for the veto was that the law “discriminated” against whites in favor of blacks.
Welcome to the Haitian Revolution
#haiti #haitiantiktok
#haitianrevolution #slavery #revolution #whitesupremacy #racism #blackpower
Looks like the American Association of University Professors agrees with me!
#AAUP, Allies Sue over #Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport #Students and #Faculty for #LawfulSpeech
"The national AAUP; chapters at #Harvard, #Rutgers, and #NYU; and the #MiddleEastStudies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in #ProPalestinian #protests and other protected #FirstAmendment activities.
"We believe that the administration’s ideological-deportation policy violates the First Amendment by targeting constitutionally protected speech that Americans have a right to hear and engage with. The policy has created a climate of fear and repression on campuses around the country. We are represented in the case by the #KnightFirstAmendmentInstitute at #ColumbiaUniversity, #AhilanArulanantham, and Zimmer, Citron & Clarke LLP.
"Following executive orders issued by President Trump in January, the federal agencies that enforce immigration laws have arrested and detained several people associated with U.S. colleges and universities, including a legal permanent resident, on the basis of constitutionally protected speech and association.
"Today’s filing argues that the ideological-deportation policy has created a climate of #repression and intense fear on university #campuses, 'terrorizing students and faculty for their exercise of First Amendment rights in the past, intimidating them from exercising those rights now, and silencing political viewpoints that the government disfavors.'
"'The Trump administration is going after international #scholars and students who speak their minds about #Palestine, but make no mistake: they won't stop there. They'll come next for those who teach the history of #slavery or who provide #GenderAffirming health care or who research #ClimateChange or who counsel students about their reproductive choices. We all have to draw a line together—as the old labor movement slogan says: an injury to one is an injury to all,' says AAUP President Todd Wolfson.
"'The First Amendment means the government can’t arrest, detain, or deport people for lawful political expression—it’s as simple as that. This practice is one we’d ordinarily associate with the most repressive political regimes, and it should have no place in our democracy,' says #JameelJaffer, executive director at the Knight First Amendment Institute."
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https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-allies-sue-over-trump-policy-arresting-and-threatening-deport-students-and-faculty-lawful
#RightToProtest #SilencingDissent #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #law
#immigration #FreeSpeech #MarcoRubio #Trump #FreedomOfAssembly #Authoritarianism #Palestine #CriminalizingDissent #HigherEducation
AAUP · AAUP, Allies Sue over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful SpeechThe national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in pro-Palestinian protests and other protected First Amendment activities.
There were 250-311 slave revolts in Colonial America and the United States between c. 1663 and c. 1860 as defined by scholar Herbert Aptheker (l. 1915-2003), but, almost certainly, many more that were not reported, as news of an uprising was sometimes suppressed, or the event redefined, to prevent panic among slaveholding communities. #History #StonoRebellion #Gabriel'sRebellion #DenmarkVesey #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2677-en/
World History EncyclopediaTen Great Slave Revolts in Colonial America and the United StatesThere were 250-311 slave revolts in Colonial America and the United States between c. 1663 and c. 1860 as defined by scholar Herbert Aptheker (l. 1915-2003), but, almost certainly, many more that were...
Today is the International Day of Remeberence of the Victims of Slavery.
It took Britain far too long to abolish slavery.
It took from 1787 until 1833 , 12 resolutions and several motions introduced to parliament by William Wilberforce (assisted by Pitt the Younger) to finally achieve abolition in Britain.
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Abolition-Of-Slavery/
Historic UKThe Abolition of Slavery In Britain - Historic UKAs the trade in enslaved people reached its peak in the 1780s, more and more people began to voice concerns about the moral implications of slavery...
"The University has derived long-term benefits from gifts and benefactions from donors associated with the ownership of or trade in enslaved people" #highered #slavery #empire #Scotland legacies-of-empire.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/report/
On this day in 451, the city of Venice is founded.
On this day in 1306, Robert the Bruce is crowned King of Scotland at Scone. #Scotland
On this day in 1807, the British Parliament abolishes the slave trade in the British West Indies. #Slavery
On this day in 1957, six countries sign the Treaties of Rome to establish the European Economic Community, an important step towards European integration and the creation of the European Union. #EU
#GeraldHorne on the life and death of #PaulRobeson who filed a #genocide charge at the #UN against the #US over their treatment of #Black and #Colored people in #slavery.
