Read #QuinnNorton about #whiteness:
"The great thing about the divide-and-conquer of creating white-skin #privilege is that you don’t have to give people thusly bought off anything more, and American power structures didn’t. In places with black #slavery, the whites suffered terribly.

"There is a simple truth to American history for the majority of people who have ever been American: the worse the black experience, the worse everyone else’s experience, including whites. Driving down (or eliminating) black #wages, while always agreeable to whites, drove white pay lower than their European counterparts for most of our history."

https://medium.com/message/how-white-people-got-made-6eeb076ade42 #history #learning #learn #sociology #reputation #agnotology #racism #raceMaking #America #USA #TheSouth #labor #exploitation #capitalism

How White People Got Made - The Message - Medium

“When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no ‘white’ people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for another sixty years.” — Theodore W. Allen It…

The Message

As the numbers of enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Americas increased with the continued growth of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and Atlantic #plantation economies, non-slaveholding whites could serve on patrols to help protect against slave rebellions.

http://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/africanpassageslowcountryadapt/introductionatlanticworld/new-world-labor-systems--europ

#history #learning #learn #slavery #deportation #colonyBuilding #indentures #servitude #bondage #racism #raceMaking #America #USA #Virginia #labor #exploitation #capitalism

New World Labor Systems: European Indentured Servants · African Passages, Lowcountry Adaptations · Lowcountry Digital History Initiative

"It is to the political benefit of the existing system to keep whites, especially poor whites with little more than their whiteness to be proud of. It makes for a predictable political group. Whites thus managed will vote and flock to issues as reliably as tides."

Quinn Norton: https://medium.com/message/how-white-people-got-made-6eeb076ade42 @supremacy

#USPol #history #slavery #deportation #colonyBuilding #indentures #servitude #bondage #racism #raceMaking #America #USA #Virginia #labor #exploitation #capitalism #QuinnNorton #work #sociology #poverty #ownership #democracy #TheSouth #whiteSupremacy #supremacy #antiRacism #parliament #House #Congress #vote #LiberalDemocracy

How White People Got Made - The Message - Medium

“When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no ‘white’ people there; nor, according to the colonial records, would there be for another sixty years.” — Theodore W. Allen It…

The Message

"Far from being an absolute product of democratic development, the progress of humanity and other beautiful things of that kind, parliamentarianism is, on the contrary, a historically determined form of the class domination of the bourgeoisie and - this is only the reverse side of this domination - of its struggle against feudalism. Bourgeois parliamentarism is a living form only as long as the conflict between the bourgeoisie and feudalism lasts", Rosa Luxemburg reminded us as early as 1905.

#parliamentarianism #Enlightment #Luxemburg #citation #quote #quotes #communism #Germany #history #capitalism #democracy #parliament #House #Congress #vote #LiberalDemocracy #bourgeoisie #suffrage #RightToVote #progress #voteBlue

"In terms of racial identity, white Americans have had the choice of being something vague, something unraced and separate from race. A capitalized "White" challenges that freedom, by unmasking Whiteness as an American racial identity as historically important as "Blackness" — which it certainly is."

~ Nell Irvin Painter: https://www.wctrib.com/opinion/nell-irvin-painter-why-white-should-be-capitalized-too via @breton 🧶

#raceMaking #entitlement #bias #whiteSupremacy #coloniality #decolonial #racism #antiRacism #sociology #USA #USPol #quotes #militancy #Americans #Whiteness #American #identity #blackMastodon #NellIrvinPainter

Nell Irvin Painter: Why 'White' should be capitalized, too

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West Central Tribune

In this clip from "The #BlackPower Mixtape" Angela Davis discusses the legacy of #racism and domestic terrorism in the United States, violence and revolution: http://shine.forharriet.com/2013/05/angela-davis-discusses-us-domestic.html

#AngelaDavis #BlackMastodon #history #blackHistory #stateViolence #revolution

Angela Davis on U.S. Domestic Terrorism, Violence and Revolution

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"The racialization and the persecution (real or perceived) of those coded as white is necessary in the human resource supply chain in the continuation of empire."
said Aadita Chaudhury in 2026

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/0407/refugees-trump-south-africa-afrikaners

#whiteSupremacy #racism #racialization

Almost all US refugees are now from South Africa, as Trump focuses on Afrikaners

Virtually all of the refugees let into the U.S. over the past six months are from South Africa. President Trump prioritized white South Africans after dramatically cutting the program’s annual cap.

The Christian Science Monitor