Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Inventing Black and White was (Tears) The Collected Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:23:00 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 102 Message-ID: <20250610b@crcomp.net> References: <20250413a@crcomp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:23:01 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="945d6ca8d476dba11bd29b32db4e4a4c"; logging-data="1401073"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1++CJkhhc80pDuBm1ryIlt0" Cancel-Lock: sha1:P5oMDhYRDTHnUusoT+lFXaC0x1o= The Horny Goat wrote: > Don wrote: > >> ... The events in Jamestown were alarming to the planter >> elite, who were deeply fearful of the multiracial alliance >> of [indentured servants] and slaves. Word of Bacon's >> Rebellion spread far and wide, and several more uprisings >> of a similar type followed. In an effort to protect their >> superior status and economic position, the planters shifted >> their strategy for maintaining dominance. They abandoned >> their heavy reliance on indentured servants in favor of the >> importation of more black slaves. ... >> > Most indentured servants were only bound for a given time period. My > first North American ancestors (roughly the 1720s) were indentured for > 5 years to pay off the cost of their passage from Europe. My first > North American born male ancestor went on to marry the eldest sister > of the woman who married Nelson Rockefeller's great great grandmother. > Unfortunately none of that money rubbed off on us > > His son went on to invade Canada in 1812 with the NY state militia > which causes a smile since two of his six children (including my > father) went on to marry Canadians and to settle in Canada. The time term of a bound obligation is marginal to the USA elite's invention of "black" and "white" as a legal precedent for today's law. "Black" and "white" divide by design. Predictably, a teaching moment recently occurred. Ironically the headline is correct in the sense of USA elites heading off dissent directed at them. Workplace Raids in LA? Or a Targeted Attack on Dissent It was never about 'removing criminals.' It was always about white nationalism. Stephen Miller, the architect behind Trump's immigration policies, is a known white nationalist. Trump himself has said he believes immigrants are 'poisoning the blood of America.' Did the administration target LA - a city that opposes Trump - with workplace raids to provoke a reaction so Trump can use federal power to 'take America back?' Presumably, Hispanics are supposed to pass for "black" at this event. The psyop only works when USA citizens self-identify as either "black" or "white" based upon an idiosyncratic interpretation of ill-defined legal labels. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inventing Black and White ... Virginia's wealthy planters were shaken by the fact that a rebel militia that united white and black servants and slaves had destroyed the colonial capital. Legal scholar Michelle Alexander writes: The events in Jamestown were alarming to the planter elite, who were deeply fearful of the multiracial alliance of [indentured servants] and slaves. Word of Bacon's Rebellion spread far and wide, and several more uprisings of a similar type followed. In an effort to protect their superior status and economic position, the planters shifted their strategy for maintaining dominance. They abandoned their heavy reliance on indentured servants in favor of the importation of more black slaves. After Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia's lawmakers began to make legal distinctions between "white" and "black" inhabitants. By permanently enslaving Virginians of African descent and giving poor white indentured servants and farmers some new rights and status, they hoped to separate the two groups and make it less likely that they would unite again in rebellion. Historian Ira Berlin explains: Soon after Bacon's Rebellion they increasingly distinguish between people of African descent and people of European descent. They enact laws which say that people of African descent are hereditary slaves. And they increasingly give some power to independent white farmers and land holders ... Now what is interesting about this is that we normally say that slavery and freedom are opposite things-that they are diametrically opposed. But what we see here in Virginia in the late 17th century, around Bacon's Rebellion, is that freedom and slavery are created at the same moment. ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Danke, -- Don.......My cat's )\._.,--....,'``. https://crcomp.net/reviews.php telltale tall tail /, _.. \ _\ (`._ ,. veritas liberabit vos tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' Make 1984 fiction again.