#white history

[blackstarlineage]

And they are still deadbeats 🤷🏿

[theblack-awakening]

🤔

[whitesinhistory]

On June 26, 1844, the legislative committee of the territory then known as “Oregon Country” passed the first of a series of “Black exclusion” laws. The law dictated that free African Americans were prohibited from moving into Oregon Country and those who violated the ban could be whipped “not less than twenty nor more than thirty-nine stripes."

That December, the law was amended to substitute forced labor for whipping. It specified that African Americans who stayed within Oregon would be hired at public auction and that the “hirer” would be responsible for removing the “hiree” out of the territory after the prescribed period of forced service was rendered. This law was enforced even though slavery and involuntary servitude were illegal in Oregon Country.

The preamble to a later exclusion law, passed in 1849, explained legislators’ beliefs that “it would be highly dangerous to allow free Negroes and mulattoes to reside in the Territory, or to intermix with Indians, instilling ... feelings of hostility toward the white race.”

The Oregon Constitution of 1857 included racial exclusion provisions against African Americans and Asian Americans. The document declared that African Americans outside of Oregon were not permitted to “come, reside, or be within” the state; prohibited African Americans from owning property or performing contracts; and prescribed punishment for those who employed, “harbor[ed],” or otherwise helped African Americans.

Between 1840 and 1860, in the midst of this exclusion and discrimination, African Americans never constituted more than 1% of the population in the American Pacific Northwest. Oregon, which joined the Union as a "free state" on February 14, 1859, stands as a clear illustration that racial discrimination and oppression against Black people was also widespread in jurisdictions where slavery was illegal. The 2020 U.S. Census reported that only 3.2% of Oregon residents were Black.

[anitaradix]

Vkyyyy 😍😍😍

[protoslacker]

“The essential characteristic of a nation is that all its individuals must have many things in common,” wrote the 19th-century French scholar Ernest Renan. “And must have forgotten many things as well.” But is this really mere forgetfulness? Or something more deliberate? This is not the accidental, absent-minded misplacement of a fact. The transatlantic trade in human beings for profit doesn’t slip one’s mind, momentarily, like an elusive name or date. A nation does not forget centuries of slavery as a person might forget an umbrella. The nation sets about the task with great prejudice. After all, there are a good many things that predated this particular racial journey, from 1066 to the Wars of the Roses, that we do remember well.

Gary Younge in The Guardian. Lest We Remember: How Britain Buried Its History of Slavery

Slavery is a central and indisputable fact of the nation’s past. But our failure to remember what really happened is more than mere forgetfulness

[theblack-awakening]

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[quotesfromall]

The espousal of the doctrine of Negro inferiority by the South was primarily because of economic motives and the inter-connected political urge necessary to support slave industry; but to the watching world it sounded like the carefully thought out result of experience and reason; and because of this it was singularly disastrous for modern civilization in science and religion, in art and government, as well as in industry. The South could say that the Negro, even when brought into modern civilization, could not be civilized, and that, therefore, he and the other colored peoples of the world were so far inferior to the whites that the white world had a right to rule mankind for their own selfish interests. Never in modern times has a large section of a nation so used its combined energies to the degradation of mankind. The hurt to the Negro in this era was not only his treatment in slavery; it was the wound dealt to his reputation as a human being. Nothing was left; nothing was sacred; and while the best and more cultivated and more humane of the planters did not themselves always repeat the calumny, they stood by, consenting by silence, while blatherskites said things about Negroes too cruelly untrue to be the word of civilized men. Not only then in the forties and fifties did the word Negro lose its capital letter, but African history became the tale of degraded animals and sub-human savages, where no vestige of human culture found foothold.

W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America

[whitesinhistory]

Why did the ADL initially defend Elon Musk after he made a Nazi salute, only to later criticize him for making Nazi-related puns?

The ADL swiftly condemned Kanye West for his anti-Semitic comments, yet Elon Musk, despite his history of anti-Semitic and bigoted behavior, has not faced the same level of scrutiny.

The ADL should apply its condemnation consistently, as seen in its swift criticism of Kanye West and Kyrie Irving, while handling Elon Musk differently.

[hopelessromanticsavage]

They will burn this shit down before they allow us to shine. White ppl are weak and fragile. Yep I said it

[whitesinhistory]

Also, remember Juneteenth gave enslaved people the news that they were free, but it did not stop them from being forced to work for cheap labor in some states. Juneteenth ushered in the Black Codes and Jim Crow. Black Codes (new laws and ordinances) were passed to restrict Black people's rights. Some Black Codes forced Black people to continue to work on plantations or jobs deemed beneath white people.

Happy Juneteenth Tumblr✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼

[laurenillustrated]

I started drawing the Ever After High girls in random historical fashion eras… why? I have no idea

Raven Queen in 1890s, Apple White in Italian Renaissance.

Briar Beauty in 1920s, Madeline Hatter in 1880s

No particularly reason for the eras, just the vibe I get from the characters and their designs!

[whitesinhistory]

MAGA: Make Apartheid Great Again

[luciferslilith7]

..as autumn bleeds into winter...

...Goodbye November...

@luciferslilith7

[ultralaser]

important to remember this isnt an allegory, this was 1960 those specific white people are still alive and voting for trump

Same assholes, different year.

[hinamie]

surprise it's yuri!!!in 2024