Growing up in Philadelphia in the early ‘80s, I never experienced racism. My city was so diverse, I was able to enjoy the beauty, wonders, and foods of many different cultures. My parents didn’t raise me to look down on people who look different. I wasn’t taught to dislike, nor hate another person. Even though my neighborhood was bombed in ‘85 by the police, my anger was towards police, not the white man. My mother, doing her best to shield me from the evil of the world, never prepared me for racism.
So as my thinking developed, and my vision became less blurred, I began to notice the mistreatment of people my color. When I moved to California in 1990, I began to experience racism firsthand. Yet I couldn’t understand what could cause people to be so hateful and cruel. Especially when I hadn’t done any wrong to anyone. So my young curious mind began to study history on my own. I knew there had to be a reason, there had to be a starting point, and for sure someone had documented it. One thing that’s certain… school didn’t teach the truth. I flipped through every page of those history books, but found nothing. American schools made it seem as if “slavery was just a part of life”, and that “the Europeans and the Native Americans were friends.”
For those reasons, I cursed out my 10th grade teacher, and went back to home schooling. But my hunger for the truth still ate away at me! Because not only could I not understand the evil, why was the education system hiding, and lying about the truth? We see propaganda in other countries, we’re taught that they’re wrong for counselling or brainwashing their people. But through the deception and propaganda of racism, America has morally bankrupted its citizens. But for what reason? It could only be for control, and only certain individuals have the ability to control. That ability could only be afforded to the elite, the wealthy, and those who control the political spectrum.
During one of my studies, I came across facts they don’t teach in American schools. Like how white workers were brought over as indentured servants, and bonded workers. And during this time (1660–1676), white indentured servants and black slaves lived together, worked together, ate together, engaged in relationships together. They did this while working the plantations, and importantly… without hatred of one another.
The most memorable act that had a foot in creating racism: “The BACON REBELLION of 1676”.
White servants and enslaved blacks came together and rebelled against the elite. They marched on the capital city in colonial Virginia and burned it down; forcing Governor Berkeley to flee to offshore British warships. After this incident, elites needed a mechanism to prevent such powerful class solidarities from threatening their power again. So they used racial hatred politically, to stem conflict rooted in the class systems. Hence, white supremacy was coined and born! The elites, through deceit, convinced lower class whites to believe they were better than the black slaves, and that they needed to fear the freedom of the black slaves. So laws were created to allow lower class whites to harm and kill black (slaved and free) men. By keeping the lower class occupied with the hatred, the elite were/are free to operate their agendas without interruption.
So, racism doesn’t really exist, “immoral diseases of Victorian England, disguised as American propaganda, does exist.”
Let’s wake up, love one another, and destroy hate!
NO RACISM!
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