Part 3 of The Language of Racism
ra·cial pro·fil·ingnounUS
the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense.
Even the Bible says there is a time and a place for everything. but now is the time for me to speak up I cant speak for everyone but i speak for myself when i say white pride is dangerous. If your pride drives you to believe other peoples children and family do not matter something is wrong. Unless you dont care about your own. Because if so you are a hypocrite. I say that with every ounce of love that Jesus had for you when he died on the cross. I am a Christian. I am a humanitarian. When we talk about religion I get very passionate even by accident. So I will not ask for forgiveness when I say I care about life …every life. Alot of people are angry and rightfully so because they say stop praying over your enemy stop asking Jesus for help if a person comes to harm you or your family are you going to talk like that? I think the answer is obvious but lets examine these two specific points of view. if I am a Christian I am honor bound to my Father in heaven who I believe created life ; so in turn as his daughter I must respect life. However I also understand the undeniable fact that my life as well as those i love are priceless and I am honor bound to protect myself and those i love. By any means necessary. This makes me pause to think those that created and / or used the “slave bible” did not believe these teachings of Christ…I choose to write I choose to try to change minds to enact change. To challenge any thinker of sound mind and body to evaluate these same convictions within themselves and expect the same from others. That is fair. How can any Christian not believe such a thing?
A voice of dissent will hear my voice and hear violence because they are programmed and have been for some time to think i am dangerous to have these thoughts. I must be controlled. Without even realizing it I just went backwards and explained the need to have a “slave bible“, the reason why when you hear the Second Amendment mentioned African American people are not included. Then fast forwarded to the rederick of commentary about protesters in real time.
Its also important to note there is still no mention of who actually wrote or rather re-wrote this book.
The Museum of the Bible, during a 2018 exhibition called “The Slave Bible: Let the Story Be Told”, exhibited an example from 1807, called Parts of the Holy Bible, selected for the use of the Negro Slaves, in the British West-India Islands. British missionaries used that bible in the education and conversion of the enslaved population. The editors removed 90 percent of the Old Testament and half of the New Testament. Among the excluded passages are Galatians 3:28, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus”, which was thought to possibly incite rebellion. Passages like Ephesians 6:5, “Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ,” were kept.[3] This bible was one of three copies of this version, and is owned by Fisk University. It was printed by Law and Gilbert of London, for the Society for the Conversion of Negro Slaves.[4]
Slave Bible (Wikipedia)
Why Bibles Given to Slaves Omitted Most of the Old Testament
Racism still exist in the U.S. of America its not slavery we are talking about; its racism…there is a difference.
Star Dreams 7/8/2020 7:18 pm
What Is the Slave Bible? Who Made it and Why?
The Slave Bible was published in 1807, commissioned “on behalf of the Society for the Conversion of Negro Slaves” for use by missionaries who wanted “to teach enslaved Africans to read, with the ultimate goal of introducing them to Christianity,” according to Katz. Names of the editors or authors of the Slave Bible are not mentioned. Although their intentions were to evangelize slaves, missionaries had to appease slave owners in the British West-Indies who feared an uprising. This fear was heightened because Haitian slaves overcame their masters only three years earlier during “the only slave revolt in history” in which slaves “successfully drove out their European oppressors to form a new nation,” according to History.com.
Ephesians 6:5, "Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ," were kept.
Hannibal the Barbarian
If you read the article listed above it notes the bible was written 3 years after the revolt of Haiti who gained their freedom threw uprising. One of my favorite characters in history is Hannibal he was from the city of Carthage. Like you I have read and seen many things about Spartacus who fought against Rome for his freedom ; building an army of slaves to fight. Its interesting that even in the article I quoted it states Spartacus as the first to go against Rome when in fact that is not true, Hannibal was the first to rise against Rome and raise an army and he did it because his people were captured and enslaved just like Spartacus was. So many things in history have been changed to fit the narrative of white supremacy or white nationalism…depends on what the political correct term is or who you are talking to and how they identify themselves. Changing history to fit the Voice of Dissent and the racial profile that has been build over years is not a coincidence. Its not a coincidence that the bible was altered; its not a coincidence that years later this mindset was still taught to children … even in schools. Worse yet it is still mildly touched upon and our children have no idea of our history and what we have been threw. I have seen and heard some of the most ignorant comments from African Americans and I know instinctively they don’t know the truth and even if you told them so many beliefs have been build on the backbone of those lies it would be like starting over. This is why I examine history to understand that not only can actions and thoughts be taught but where did they originate from and why are they still here.
(Carthage, Phoenician Kart-hadasht, Latin Carthage, great city of antiquity on the north coast of Africa, now a residential suburb of the city of Tunis, Tunisia.)
As you can imagine it wasn’t long before the treatment of slaves became very treacherous and violent. The main reason was to promote fear and discourage any who would want to excite people to fight for their freedom. It was right around this time that lynchings and hunting of African Americans for sport became the norm.
A History Rewritten
It’s no surprise that racial profiling still exist when you look at African American history and how their voices, votes and opportunities have been met with opposition and even led to the lost of their life because of the color of their skin. Even from the early days after the American Civil War when the United Daughters of the Confederacy went on a campaign to re-write history that lasted years after the American Civil War it was apparent that race would remain a issue in the United States. They made sure that future generations would never forget the values taught by their slave master fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons. Because, of course at this time even woman had no rights and couldn’t even vote so this was their contribution to “the cause”. They had monuments and statues built of Confederate soldiers to commemorate them as well as books on slavery and how great it was for slaves distributed in schools. I mean children were literally taught slavery is good and slaves are happy to serve because it was apart of the curriculum in schools at that time. You can read about their history in greater detail and how they accomplished the re-writing of history here. Even though the South had lost; they were stubborn about having their side, their way of life (slavery) torn from their breast and wanted freedom for black people to end. I will not waste time arguing the merit of these facts.The states who rose up against the U.S called themselves the Confederate States of America and you can read about their statements here in their own words.
Lets apply what happened after that re-write of history was written unchecked for years to our current situation. Here is a quote on racial profiling :
Sociologist Robert Staples emphasizes that racial profiling in the U.S. is “not merely a collection of individual offenses” but, rather, a systemic phenomenon across American society, dating back to the era of slavery, and, until the 1950s, was, in some instances, “codified into law”.[41] Enshrinement of racial profiling ideals in United States law can be exemplified by several major periods in U.S. history.
Black slavery as the basis of white equality was a frequent theme for slaveholders. In his famous “Cotton Is King” speech, James Henry Hammond compared the alleged wage slavery of the North with black slavery—and white equality—in the South:
We do not think that whites should be slaves either by law or necessity. Our slaves are black, of another and inferior race. The status in which we have placed them is an elevation. They are elevated from the condition in which God first created them, by being made our slaves. None of that race on the whole face of the globe can be compared with the slaves of the South. They are happy, content, unaspiring, and utterly incapable, from intellectual weakness, ever to give us any trouble by their aspirations. Yours are white, of your own race; you are brothers of one blood. They are your equals in natural endowment of intellect, and they feel galled by their degradation.
James Henry ” Cotton is King”
Southern Unionist
(White Southerners vs. the Civil War )
Codified into Law
Lets apply what happened after that re-write of history was written unchecked for years to our current situation. Here is a quote on racial profiling :
Sociologist Robert Staples emphasizes that racial profiling in the U.S. is “not merely a collection of individual offenses” but, rather, a systemic phenomenon across American society, dating back to the era of slavery, and, until the 1950s, was, in some instances, “codified into law”.[41] Enshrinement of racial profiling ideals in United States law can be exemplified by several major periods in U.S. history.
Before we go into what “codified into law” means and what it represents lets look at the average life expectancy of an average American which is 78.54 years. Now lets do some quick math and say that in 1950 all racial profiling stopped because it was now unlawful in theory of coarse please bear with me. That was only 70 years ago. Which means we are only one generation from what we are about to discuss and we can argue some of them may still be alive. Now several things happened after the civil war we had years of lynching and it was legal that’s right legal . Slave masters owned their slaves so they could literally do whatever they want and if you consider Jim Crow laws which was legal until 1954. Promoting segregation and also keeping African Americans from voting were all examples of racial profiling. It’s also important to note that Euro Americans were lynched for helping African Americans who were fighting against oppression. So even if you were a sympathizer you were meant to suffer the same fate as those you meant to help or speak for. Here is two excerpts on lynching
1.From 1882 to 1968, “nearly 200 anti-lynching bills were introduced in Congress, and three passed the House. Seven presidents between 1890 and 1952 petitioned Congress to pass a federal law.”[32] None succeeded in gaining passage, blocked by the Solid South – the delegation of powerful white Southerners in the Senate, which controlled, due to seniority, the powerful committee chairmanships.
2.African Americans mounted resistance to lynchings in numerous ways. Intellectuals and journalists encouraged public education, actively protesting and lobbying against lynch mob violence and government complicity. Anti-lynching plays and other literary works[which?] were produced. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and related groups, organized support from white and black Americans, publicizing injustices, investigating incidents, and working for passage of federal anti-lynching legislation (which as of 2019 has still not passed).
Nowadays there is a new term for the unlawful killing of African Americans
Modern Day Lynching
When taking a look into codified law its important to remember that there is a difference between slave laws and black laws The Black Codes, sometimes called Black Laws, were laws governing the conduct of African Americans (free blacks).
Freedom and slavery, the ‘central paradox of American history’
Slave laws
- In October 1705, Virginia passed a law stating that if a master happened to kill a slave who was undergoing “correction,” it was not a crime.
- Prohibitions on Gathering: Slave codes generally prevented large groups of enslaved people from gathering away from their plantations
- Education Restrictions: Some codes made it illegal to teach slaves to read.
- Movement Restrictions: Most regions required any slaves away from their plantations or outside of the cities they resided in to have a pass signed by their master. Many cities in the slave-states required slave-tags, small copper badges that enslaved people wore, to show that they were allowed to move about.[4]
- Slave Patrols: In the slave-dependent portions of North America, varying degrees of legal authority backed patrols by plantation owners and other free whites to ensure that enslaved people were not free to move about at night, and to generally enforce the restrictions on slaves
Black laws
- In the South, these were generally included in “slave codes“; the goal was to reduce the influence of free blacks (particularly after slave rebellions) because of their potential influence on slaves. Restrictions included prohibiting them from voting (although North Carolina had allowed this before 1831), bearing arms, gathering in groups for worship, and learning to read and write. The purpose of these laws was to preserve slavery in slave societies.
- They were denied equal political rights, including the right to vote, the right to attend public schools, and the right to equal treatment under the law. Some of the Northern states[which?] repealed such laws around the same time that the Civil War ended and slavery was abolished by constitutional amendment.
- Black Codes were part of a larger pattern of whites trying to maintain political dominance and suppress the freedmen, newly emancipated African-American slaves. They were particularly concerned with controlling movement and labor of freedmen, as slavery had been replaced by a free labor system. Although freedmen had been emancipated, their lives were greatly restricted by the Black Codes. The defining feature of the Black Codes was broad vagrancy law, which allowed local authorities to arrest freedpeople for minor infractions and commit them to involuntary labor. This period was the start of the convict lease system, also described as “slavery by another name” by Douglas Blackmon in his 2008 book of this title.[6]
As of February 26, 2020 Senate finally passed the Emmitt Hill Antilynching Act. Now I know your immediate question is who is Emmett Hill? Emmitt was a 14 yr old African American boy from Chicago, Illinois who was beat and mutilated to death in Mississippi in 1955. I think its a good time to note I myself was born in 1979. If Emmett had lived he would be 64 today which we can argue he would have at least 10 more years of life left to live.
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