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Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 26, 2022, 11:55 am
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May 26, 2022 By Valley News
[center]Store manager
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SNIPPET:
The woman put on her mask, but shortly thereafter, Hall was
alerted that she had pulled it down below her nose while still
in store. Hall pointed out to the woman that masks were needed
during the COVID-19 pandemic for the safety of customers and
employees.
“Doren was trying to tell her if she did not wear her mask
properly that she would have to leave the store,” a Co-op
employee who witnessed the incident later recalled. “👿
She proceeded to argue with him, then she took down her mask,
[b]spit in his face and walked out.”[/b]
An in-store video camera captured the encounter.
After identifying the woman — she was a regular shopper — Hall
wanted her banned from the store. Working with Lebanon police,
the Co-op sent her a “no trespass” letter.
But a few days later, after an exchange of emails with the
woman’s husband, Co-op General Manager Paul Guidone lifted the
ban.
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The Supreme Court Is Gutting the Regulatory State. Let's Look at
Our Other Options
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 24, 2022, 2:47 pm
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Tuesday, September 20, 2022
[center]The 👿🎩 Supreme Court Is Gutting the
Regulatory State. Let's Look at Our Other Options[/center]
SNIPPET:
Whither Social Democracy?
Social democracy was initially founded on the idea that society
could transition from capitalism to socialism peacefully via
democratic political institutions. But in its modern
incarnation, the term more often refers to a political and
economic system based on the idea that the excesses and
injustices of capitalism can be ameliorated primarily through
state regulation of private enterprise, rather than large-order
shifts in the ownership of those enterprises. As the German
revisionist Marxist Eduard Bernstein, often considered the
father of social democracy, once put it, socialization
​“can also take place if the general public intervenes
ever more strongly in support of economic life through laws and
ordinances,” via, for instance, minimum-wage legislation,
occupational safety standards, price controls and other
regulations. This regulatory approach is, then, usually combined
with both a strong social safety net supported by tax-and-spend
policies and the extension of political and social rights to
traditionally marginalized groups.
Following World War II, social democrats (in either name or
deed) came to power in many countries around the world,
especially those in Europe that had been economically and
socially devastated by the war. With the economic and business
elite in many of those countries temporarily discredited by
their associations and infatuations with fascism, some of these
countries were able to build strong welfare states characterized
by empowered trade unions, reductions in economic inequality,
and marked improvements in health and living standards. In the
United States, a weaker version of social democracy took hold
through the federal government’s robust response to the Great
Depression (the New Deal) and the centralizing forces of war
mobilization.
While some significant ownership shifts did occur, especially in
the early days of the New Deal, the U.S. variant of social
democracy was always primarily regulatory in nature, with famous
examples being financial laws such as the Glass-Steagall Act
(which limited the activities of private banks), environmental
laws (which restrict pollution and extraction), food, drug and
medical device quality laws, labor laws, and so on. Moreover,
actual implementation and enforcement of these laws was often
delegated to regulatory agencies, such as the Food and Drug
Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, giving
rise to the term the ​“regulatory state.” Like in Europe,
this approach initially found some success. By the late-1970s,
income and wealth inequality had hit historic lows, poverty was
falling, rivers and the air were being cleaned up, labor unions
were still comparatively strong, living standards had risen, and
life expectancy had improved dramatically.
However, since its inception, 👿🎩 business elites
and their 🐘 political allies have chafed against this
regulatory approach to moderating capitalism (while,
paradoxically, often using it to their own material benefit).
Commenting on the opposition he faced, Franklin D. Roosevelt
(FDR) once famously stated ​“we had to struggle with the
old enemies of peace — business and financial
monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism,
sectionalism, war profiteering… Never before in all our history
have these forces been so united against one candidate as they
stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for
me — and I welcome their hatred.” Like today, these
business interests attempted to thwart the implementation of
FDR’s social democratic programs through the Supreme
Court — but, ultimately, he was able to face them
down through, for instance, threatening to ​“pack” the
Court.
However, the real counterattack against the regulatory state
began in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Capitalizing on the
social and economic upheavals of the time, the business
community and economic elite, along with their ​“free
market” allies in academia, sprang into action. In 1971, just a
few months before he was nominated to serve on the Supreme
Court, 😈 Lewis F. Powell Jr. — a corporate
lawyer who sat on the board of the tobacco company Philip
Morris — wrote a letter to the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce castigating the business community for its supposed
inattention to (and complicity in) the ​“attack on the
American free enterprise system.”
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The 😈 business elite responded, and soon vast sums of
money began flowing to an array of new and existing
🦀🐘🦕🦖🐍🦍🐉🐀
right-wing organizations — including the American
Enterprise Institute (founded in 1938), the Reason Foundation
(founded 1968), the Heritage Foundation (founded in 1973), the
Cato Institute (founded in 1977), the Manhattan Institute
(founded in 1977), the American Legislative Exchange Council
(ALEC; founded in 1973), and the Federalist Society (founded
1982). The effort was so successful that by
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/>Ronald Reagan’s first term, these
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/>organizations provided more than half of his
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/>high-level presidential appointments.
Under the influence and direction of these organizations and
their acolytes, deregulation of the U.S. economy kicked into
high gear, championed by both Republicans and Democrats alike.
This includes high-profile legislation like, for instance, the
😈🎩 1999 law which essentially repealed the
Glass-Steagall Act. However, more insidiously, it also includes
a full-blown assault on the agencies tasked with implementing
and monitoring regulatory rules. Regulatory agencies are
regularly swamped with industry lawsuits and lobbying, vilified
by corporate-funded propaganda campaigns, purposefully saddled
with leaders who are hostile to their mission (e.g. Rick Perry’s
being appointed Secretary of Energy in 2017, an agency he called
to be eliminated a few years earlier), sapped of talent by the
private sector and, most recently, undercut by the
👿🎩 Supreme Court.
Full article:
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AGelbert COMMENTS:
The Supreme Court has been a tool of 👿🎩
Oligarchs from the start. The Supreme Court was DESIGNED
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/>to be the lackey of the Oligarchs (see snippet below), so they
will ALWAYS obstruct any move to real democracy at the
workplace, or anywhere else, in the USA, PERIOD. 😠
SNIPPETS:
Luther Martin: Representative for Maryland and dissenting
Anti-Federalist. Was shocked at the attempt by the elite to
overthrow the existing government in secret in 1787, and swore
to tell the people what Washington, Madison and Hamilton were up
to. ... ...
He said we were going to lose our freedom under the
reintroduction of a hated standing army and that we would suffer
under the despotism of a Supreme Court with no citizen jury.
Source: the Actual Anti-Federalist writings...
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Adam G. Yoksas
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It would be interesting to look at examples from the states to
show how public ownership could work. Unlike the Federal
government, states have a lot of autonomy to enact policies for
themselves that work for them, policies that can, in turn, serve
as models for how Federal reform could work.
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I can think of a few experiments off the top of my head. The
Green Bay Packers is a publicly owned football team, an anomaly
in a culture that is defined by a kind of neofeudal impresario
model of dynastic ownership. I think a case can be made that
this dynastic ownership model no longer serves the public, as
these dynasties think nothing about extorting the public to pay
for ever more lavish stadiums and infrastructure, with the
threat that they will pack up and leave.
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Then there is the Alaskan oil and gas dividend, where a portion
of the revenue gained by fossil fuel extraction is paid to the
citizens of Alaska as a consideration for the use of the Alaskan
territory for such purposes.
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In many locales--even today--you have publicly owned liquor
stores; you simply cannot buy alcohol at a supermarket or a
private retail enterprise. How do those work? And I think, more
importantly, what is the purpose behind this arrangement?
Because it isn't so much aimed at equitable distribution. It's
an instrument of control.
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Now booze is important to many. But it is far from essential.
The greatest fear I think you'll 😈 encounter when
proposing public ownership of something like utilities is how
that arrangement would be used. For many
😈🎩😉 fear that if something like
electricity or heating fuel would become a publicly owned, state
owned endeavor, that endeavor would be used as a cudgel against
political enemies, or as a means to push behavior modification
on a recalcitrant population.
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AGelbert > Adam G. Yoksas
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/>Your post leaves out a rather large amount of evidence in U.S.
history, where that very Mens rea type behavior by States, that
you are, as an alleged "consequence" of more democratic
workplaces (i.e. Coops), presently concerned with, took place
for nearly a century (in some States, it is STILL going on!).
However, that Court Approved Unjust Abuse had NOTHING to do with
Coops, and EVERYTHING to do with Mens rea serial, rampant,
continual pecuniary exploitation of certain U.S. Citizens under
the color of Law.
Speaking of "using a cudgel against" political (or any other
kind of "perceived") enemies or as a means to push behavior
modification on a "recalcitrant" population, the States
(Southern AND Northern) engaged in exactly THAT after the Civil
War (i.e. after African-Americans were, according U.S. LAW, FREE
U.S. citizens, entitled to all the Rights inherent to U.S.
citizenship) while the Supreme Court looked the other way or
voiced approval with legalese code speech.
There were MANY abuses but the Land Grant College abuse by the
States was what I wish to bring to your attention. Millions of
dollars (in 19th and early 20th century dollars!), were legally
coerced in the form of "education" taxes from African-American
U.S. Citizens under the guise of "education for all" (i.e. U.S.
Law after the Civil War). ALL that money went to WHITE Land
Grant colleges and WHITE public schools, and not a PENNY to
traditionally BLACK Colleges OR Black public schools. Talk about
ABUSE! These Black citizens, among the poorest people in the
USA, were being cynically DEFRAUDED.
Details of that and much more (Near the end in the Panel
Discussion) too many people do not want to talk about: 😞
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Comments UPDATE on previous Post on this Topic Thread
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 25, 2022, 12:54 pm
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Collectivist Action >AGelbert
Wow, AGelbert, we're apparently on the same page with this.
Good comment & video.
I saw your comment after I wrote mine.
AGelbert > Collectivist Action
I say in all seriousness that am fortunate to be thinking along
the same Hunger and Thirst for Justice lines as you. If more
people were as prudent and principled as you, human society
would not be in such a sorry state of greed based corruption.
God Bless you, bro.
Collectivist Action >Yoksas
You're late, Yoksas.
Behavior modification already exist.
The ruling capitalists have been 'modifying' our behavior since
they codified and nationalized white supremacy, through private
property laws and public policies since the state was
established.
Think: Naturalization and Jim Crow laws, and commercial
media.etc.
Nevertheless, the OPed raises some very provocative ideas about
how we could transition away from the catastrophic rule of
capital, by drawing on a rich, past and present tradition of
cooperative economics and the best of global social democratic
experiments.*
Of course, many of the reactionaries I see you, mostly,
backslapping in cyberspace, and others, on and offline, imo,
will be CONSCIOUSLY opposing most of the above proposals, mainly
because, afaics, they are arch enemies of social equality and
democracy, which expanding public ownership would advance.
Rightwingers are generally diametrically opposed to both of
those things (with a LONG & BLOODY history to boot!), , esp., if
they threaten their private property. . .and requires paying
more taxes.
AGelbert > Collectivist Action
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/>Well said. In addition to my comment (which you have already
read and approved), I want to add that, when Yoksas wrote that
hyperbole FUD about liquor licenses being a State sponsored
"instrument of control", I was flabbergasted at the selective
blindness exhibited 🤦‍♂️. I wanted to
direct this at Yoksas (but tried to do the same thing with words
instead):
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The GOAL of EVERY Capitalist is to 🦍 "corner" (SEE:
MONOPOLY) the market for whatever good or service they profit
from, PERIOD. If a MONOPOLY on a good or a service (or BOTH)
isn't an 📢 INSTRUMENT OF CONTROL, I don't know what is.
Apparently, Yoksas and fellow Capitalists, blinders thoroughly
fixed about their heads with 🎩 Capitalist crazy glue,
only see a "threat" when the government has a monopoly, but
never when a greeball Capitalist 🦍 has it without ANY
oversight whatsoever by we-the-people. Yeah, Capitalists just
want to be left alone to do their "economy improving" (SEE:
Orwell) thing with "Holy St. Adam Smith's 😇" (SEE: MORE
Orwell) invisible hand "helping" (SEE: Orwell on STEROIDS!)
society...
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V4V posted a graphic on hypocrisy the other day. Hey V4V, if you
read this, Yoksas's comment is good place to put it.
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“Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be
changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin ✨
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: September 25, 2022, 1:55 pm
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Collectivist Action > AGelbert
Worth repeating:
"Apparently, Yoksas and fellow Capitalists, blinders thoroughly
fixed about their heads with 🎩 Capitalist crazy glue,
only see a "threat" when the government has a monopoly, but
never when a greeball Capitalist 🦍 has it without ANY
oversight whatsoever by we-the-people."
AGelbert > Collectivist Action
Yup. I ran into a some cogent quotes yesterday that say a great
deal while saying very little. I think they are worth passing
along. One is an old quote you are, no doubt, familiar with; the
others are hard truths most people do not take into
consideration when pondering the
now-upon-us-and-getting-worse-every-month Existential THREAT of
Catastrophic Climate Change:
“Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be
changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin ✨
"Advertising and Marketing are the polite terms in our society
for Propaganda."
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"Affluent people tend to know the least about how to get by on
less."
SOURCE: Truths We Can’t Bear Alone: Facing an ‘Inconvenient
Apocalypse’
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16,
2022 Wes Jackson ✨ president emeritus of The Land
Institute. and Robert Jensen ✨ emeritus professor at the
University of Texas at Austin.
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 3, 2022, 12:26 pm
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Herero genocide
by Marc Ambler
Like most visitors to Namibia,1 one of the memorable pictures I
carried away was of the noble-looking Herero people. Their
women wear colourful, voluminous Victorian-style dresses and
hats (see p. 55), and the men wear uniforms on ceremonial
occasions. How terribly sad it was to learn that 100 years ago,
their great-grandparents had been the victims of the first
genocide of the 20th century.
During the colonial land-grab of African countries by European
nations after the 1884–85 Berlin Conference,2 Germany annexed
Namibia, then known as South-West Africa. German settlers
quickly ran roughshod over the historical rights and claims of
the Herero tribal inhabitants, and for the next 20 years
plundered their lands, houses and livestock.
Of this period, the Governor, Theodor Leutwein, wrote that the
German settlers had an ‘inborn feeling of belonging to a
superior race’.3 Thus racism was rife. The Herero were
regularly referred to as ‘baboons’; the men were commonly beaten
to death for minor infringements, and the women were made sex
slaves by the soldiers and settlers.
Uprising
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Lieutenant-General Lothar von Trotha
Lieutenant-General Lothar von Trotha’s beliefs of racial
superiority led him to contemptuously state: ‘I wipe out
rebellious tribes with streams of blood and streams of money.
Only following this cleansing can something new emerge’. And ‘…
I find it appropriate that the [Herero] nation perishes instead
of infecting our soldiers’.
In these circumstances, it is hardly surprising that an uprising
occurred. On 12 January 1904, fighting broke out between Herero
tribesmen and the settlers, in the town of Okahandja, where
there was a German fort.
The response of the Berlin government to this insurrection by a
colonized people who had dared to resist the might of the German
nation was fast and ruthless. Kaiser Wilhelm II dispatched
14,000 troops to the region under the command of
Lieutenant-General Lothar von Trotha. Von Trotha was renowned
for the ruthless efficiency with which he had helped to suppress
the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900, and to quash resistance to
his nation’s occupation of German East Africa (today’s Rwanda,
Burundi and Tanzania).
Von Trotha’s written goal was: ‘I believe that the [Herero]
nation as such should be exterminated.’4 He stated: ‘The
exercise of violence and crass terrorism and even with
gruesomeness was and is my policy. I destroy the African tribes
with streams of blood and streams of money. Only following this
cleansing can something new emerge, which will remain.’5
That the German settlers and a high-ranking officer like General
von Trotha would hold to these ‘superior race’,
‘survival-of-the-fittest-through-“cleansing”-of-the-weakest’
views is hardly surprising. Darwin’s On the Origin of Species
(which is subtitled By Means of Natural Selection or the
Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) had
been translated into German in 1875, and his evolutionary
theories had for decades been avidly promoted to all and sundry
by the popular books and theatrical presentations of Ernst
Haeckel.6 The German nation had also been subjected for many
years to the ‘God-is-dead’ atheism of Nietzsche.7
This, too, was a consequence of Darwinian thought. Nietzsche
believed that Darwinian evolution would eventually produce the
Übermensch, ‘a superman whose distance from the ordinary man was
greater than the distance between man and ape’.8 Then a
‘super-race’ of such beings would impose its will on the weak
and the worthless.
Decades later, Hitler would proclaim the same Darwinist
superiority views to justify his own subjugation of the ‘lesser’
peoples of Europe.9
In the light of this attitude of racial superiority, it is
interesting to compare probably the two most famous documents to
come out of the Herero war. In his infamous Vernichtungsbefehl
(annihilation order), von Trotha stated: ‘[E]very Herero, with
or without a gun, with or without cattle, will be shot. I will
no longer accept women and children, I will drive them back to
their people or I will let them be shot at.’10
The response of the ‘lesser’ people
In contrast, a letter of Herero chief Samuel Maharero to his
people shortly after the outbreak of war11 states that
Englishmen, Boers, missionaries and people of other tribes were
not to be harmed.12 History has shown that both instructions
were diligently carried out. :emthup:
In a decisive battle at Hamakari, near Waterberg, on 11 August
1904, von Trotha’s troops surrounded the Herero tribespeople on
three sides and brutally defeated them. In a cynical ploy, he
left open only the way into the Omaheke area of the Kalahari
Desert. The battle plan was that those who escaped the German
bullets should die of thirst. Waterholes for 150 miles (240 km)
around the desert were either patrolled or poisoned, and those
Herero who came crawling out of the Omaheke, desperate for
water, were bayoneted. This left the Herero ‘with but one
option: to cross the desert into Botswana [then called
Bechuanaland], in reality a march to death. This, indeed, is
how the majority of the Herero perished.’13
Due to missionary pressure and a growing shortage of labour in
the colony, von Trotha’s extermination campaign was eventually
stopped by Berlin, and the surviving Herero people were put into
concentration camps.
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‘Put to slave labor, overworked, hungry, and exposed to
diseases such as typhoid and smallpox, more Herero men perished
in these camps. Herero women, meanwhile, were turned into sex
slaves.’14
The result of this policy was that from 1904 to 1908 the Herero
were reduced ‘from a tribe of 80,000 persons to 15,000 starving
refugees.’15
Following the war, all Herero persons over the age of seven were
forced to wear a metal disc around their necks with their
registration number, designating them as free labour. This was
an ominous foretaste of the Jewish Holocaust star years later,
when Hitler similarly enslaved those he considered to be members
of inferior races.
Genocide and ‘race branding’
There are powerful links between the Herero genocide, the
Holocaust 40 years later, and the Rwandan genocide of the
1990s.16
1.Francis Galton, the anti-Christian cousin of Charles Darwin,
visited South-West Africa in the early 1850s. He went on to
develop his theory of eugenics, a term he coined in 1883. This
pseudo-science helped promote the racial superiority views which
played such a major role in the fate of the Herero people years
later.
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Herr Doktor Eugen Fischer hard at "evolutionary studies" work!
2.Making his rounds of the Herero concentration camps was Herr
Doktor Eugen Fischer. It was here that Fischer did his first
‘medical’ experiments on race, genetics and eugenics, using as
his guinea pigs both Herero full-bloods and the mulatto
offspring of Herero women and German men. Under his
supervision, the preserved bodies and severed heads of Herero
who had been hanged were sent to Germany for dissection.4
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Anything for the advancement of EVOLUTIONARY science, eh?
Fischer went on to become the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm
Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics. He
co-authored the book The Principles of Human Heredity and Race
Hygiene,17 which became the standard textbook in Germany on this
subject. Hitler cited it in his Mein Kampf [My Struggle] ,
which became the basis for the destruction of millions of people
in his own pursuit of ‘racial purity’.
Hitler appointed Fischer as rector of the University of Berlin
in 1933, where he taught medicine to Nazi doctors. Fischer is
sometimes referred to as the father of modern genetics. One of
his prominent pupils was Josef Mengele, the so-called ‘Angel of
Death’, who went on to repeat his teacher’s cruel experiments on
Jewish children, and directed the operation of the gas chambers
at Auschwitz.
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Agelbert NOTE: Please observe the similarity in the above
photograph with the one taken around 1908. That is, NAZI
concentration camp victims in exactly the same circumstances as
the Herero victims of "evolutionary" studies (1904-1908) in the
(by the 1940s) PRACTICED Concentration Camp MEDICAL [i]Modus
Operandi that[color=red] Fischer HANDED OFF TO MENGELE.
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/>[/i] Thank these hapless Jews for the Minimum Recommended
Daily
Allowances of Vitamins and Minerals. WE recovered them from the
STUDIES in the Concentration Camps by the NAZIs!
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To Darwinian Worshipers, we just need to apply EVOLUTION more
"correctly" (I.E. Take healthy food AWAY, give processed crap
food and Sterilize the "useless eaters" with pollution so no
more "useless eaters" get a chance to be born!). TRUE BELIEVERS
in "Survival of the Apex Predators" smile at the those clever
Germans who got the Missionaries to make the Hereros believe in
"Pie in the Sky" ;) so they would not fight back! So for
Darwinists, Christian Missionaries might help CLEANSE Homo SAP
of the lesser SAPS! LOL!
Stupid is as EVIL and STUPID does. Have a nice evolutionary
day.[/color]
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Human Zoos: America’s Forgotten History of Scientific Racism
DIR By: AGelbert
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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War
and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, as we turn to Part 2 of our
interview about this 103rd anniversary of the Elaine massacre,
commemorated this past weekend in Arkansas.
Before the massacre, Elaine was home to Richard Wright, who
became one of the most famous Black writers in United States
history. He was known for his acclaimed novel Native Son and his
memoir, Black Boy, in which he describes how his uncle Silas
Hoskins was lynched in 1916 near Elaine by white people who
wanted his business. Richard Wright was 9 years old when he and
his family were forced to flee. He wrote, quote, “There was only
silence, quiet weeping, whispers and fears. Uncle Hoskins had
simply been plucked from our midst and we, figuratively, had
fallen on our faces to avoid looking into that white-hot face of
terror that we knew loomed somewhere above us. This was as close
as white terror had ever come to me and my mind reeled. Why had
we not fought back, I asked my mother, and the fear that was in
her made her slap me into silence.” Richard Wright was
describing a true story.
Three years later, on September 30th, 1919, a white man was shot
and killed near Elaine when guards stopped a group of white men
from breaking into a meeting of Black sharecroppers with the
Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America to demand
fair pay for their crops. Mobs of white people responded in
Elaine, Arkansas, with three days of anti-Black racist violence,
backed by hundreds of U.S. soldiers. Historians estimate
hundreds of Black people were killed, much of their land stolen.
The anti-lynching journalist Ida B. Wells investigated the 1919
Elaine massacre and wrote, quote, “Negroes were in a fair way to
become independent and it was not to the interest of white
landowners to let them do so.”
For more, we continue with Julia Wright, the daughter of the
literary giant Richard Wright, and she is in Portugal. We’re
also joined by Paul Ortiz ✨, professor of history and
director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at
University of Florida, Gainesville. They were both part of
symposium this weekend hosted by the Elaine Legacy Center and
the Richard Wright Civil Rights Center. Professor Paul Ortiz is
also author of the book, An African American and Latinx History
of the United States.
We welcome you both to Democracy Now! Professor Ortiz, let’s
begin with you, because, I mean, you’ve written this African
American and Latinx History of the United States, so much of
which is not included in the standard history books that
children in the United States grow up with. I mean, the Elaine
massacre, and the commemoration this weekend, hardly got paid
attention to. Can you talk about why it’s so important to
remember something that happened in 1919?
PAUL ORTIZ: Amy, it’s so important for a number of reasons. You
mention, you know, Latinx history. And this summer I was in the
National Archives doing research. The same situation that faced
African American farmers, and whether they were landowners or
sharecroppers, faced Mexican and Puerto Rican farmers and
sharecroppers in the Southwest. The same forces of state
violence were targeting Mexican farmworkers and farmers in the
Southwest. Now, the face of that violence was 🦍 law
enforcement and the 😈 Texas Rangers. What they were
doing was disenfranchising Mexican American farmers, lynching,
committing horrific acts of violence, to keep Mexican farmers
landless, to keep them powerless
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Arkansas
colluded to keep African American farmers powerless and
landless, to keep them as a landless proletariat.
And when you begin to kind of put those pieces together, it adds
up to a picture of American history, Amy, which most historians
are very uncomfortable with. We’re used to thinking of the U.S.
as the freest country on Earth. But how do you square that with
the Elaine massacre of 1919?
AMY GOODMAN: And for those who haven’t heard the first segment
of our show, if you could summarize what happened in 1919?
PAUL ORTIZ: African American farmers, sharecroppers, tenant
farmers, landowners were beginning to organize. Many of those
African Americans, Amy, who were targeted for violence by white
people were actually World War I veterans. They had served in
the United States Army. And when they returned to the Arkansas
Delta, when they returned to rural Alabama, when they returned
to rural Florida and other parts of the South, they expected
equal citizenship. They had just made huge sacrifices to help
win the Great War for Democracy, as it was known. But when they
begin trying to purchase more land, purchase more land for their
crops, try to get higher prices for their cotton, whether
they’re sharecroppers or landowners, the white power structure
in places like Helena, Arkansas, fought back and began to engage
in vigilante violence. But, Amy, one of the things I want to
point out here is the term “vigilante violence” is probably
overused, because the reality is that the courts, judges,
sheriffs, police, federal troops were involved in suppressing
African Americans, keeping them landless, keeping them
powerless. But Black people fought back.
And you mentioned Ida B. Wells-Barnett. She was a great crusader
against lynching, you know, years before the Elaine massacre.
She wrote an amazing exposé of the Elaine massacre and really
gave voice to African Americans who had been brutally tortured,
had been driven off their land. Ida B. Wells created an itemized
list of the property that African Americans lost as a result of
the Elaine massacre, including land, including cotton, including
the fact that white people went into Black-owned houses and
stole their kitchen, their cutlery, their china, everything they
could get their hands on, Amy. And none of those white
perpetrators were ever charged with any crime whatsoever. And
this really outraged Ida B. Wells. And if you know anything
about her, you know that once she got onto a campaign, she
continued investigating, but also mobilizing. She went back to
Chicago. She went to New York.
And also, this, the Elaine massacre, part of the aftermath was
to help the NAACP gain greater credibility, because Walter White
did his own investigation. The NAACP helped mobilize people.
There was a huge defense fund. So, the Elaine massacre resulted
in a national mobilization in support of African Americans who
had been put in jail, who had been tortured, who had been
convicted of murder, in fact, when they themselves were the
targets of violence.
AMY GOODMAN: And you also spoke about this in the first part of
our discussion, but now you have time to really flesh it out,
the fact that this massacre led to a seminal Supreme Court case.
And talk about what was decided. I mean, again, no white people
were charged. It was African Americans that were charged in this
case?
PAUL ORTIZ: Yes. So, there were five — as best as we can tell,
five white individuals were killed during the course of the
massacre, which unfolded not just in one day but over several
days and even weeks. So, the defendants, the men who were
actually incarcerated, charged with murder, these were all
African Americans. But much of that testimony, Amy, was coerced.
These men were literally electrocuted. They were whipped. They
were beaten savagely in order to coerce them into testifying
against each other.
This is something that Ida B. Wells highlighted. The fact that
Ida B. Wells wrote a report about what she had witnessed, and
based on the testimony of these Black defendants, the fact that
the NAACP did an investigative report, the fact that the local
Black attorney Scipio Jones, who was a Black legal activist for
decades, the fact that they publicized this case really
embarrassed not just the criminal justice system in Arkansas but
the entire nation, because there’s old traditions that go back
to the common law which say that you’re not supposed to use
testimony which was coerced via torture.
And so, the Moore v. Dempsey case, this goes all the way to the
Supreme Court. And what the Supreme Court decides in Moore v.
Dempsey is that the trial of the 12 Black defendants was
conducted in a lynch mob atmosphere. And in the majority
opinion, what the majority of this Supreme Court said was, I
mean, look, not a single white person on that jury — and by the
way, the jury was all white, and this was part of what the NAACP
was arguing was part of the injustice. But the Supreme Court
said, basically, not a single member of that jury could have
returned anything other than a guilty verdict against those
Black defendants, because had any one of those jurors said that
any one of those Black defendants was innocent, they would have
had to leave the state, literally. And so, the argument in Moore
v. Dempsey is that you can’t have a court proceeding in a lynch
mob type of atmosphere, because you’re denying the defendants
due process, you’re denying them equality under the laws, and
those types of things. So, Moore v. Dempsey becomes an important
case for the NAACP to build upon, and it becomes a precedent
that the organization uses as we move into the Scottsboro Boys
case during the Great Depression, and the later civil rights
movement.
AMY GOODMAN: Earlier this year, children of the descendants of
the 1919 Black massacre in Elaine, Arkansas, gathered memorial
soil from where Richard Wright’s uncle, Silas Hoskins, was
thought to have been lynched, near Elaine, and they brought it
to Montgomery to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice,
the national lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, where
founder Bryan Stevenson personally received the jar of memorial
soil.
BRYAN STEVENSON: We have Silas Hoskins, Elaine, Arkansas, 1916.
And this is a significant one because Silas Hoskins was the
uncle of Richard Wright, the very famous author, who wrote
amazing books. And Richard Wright talked about what happened to
his uncle, and that’s how we know his story. And because you
have these two jars, we will be able to put them in our exhibit,
and I’m really grateful for that. And so, if you will turn that
over, I will take it, and we will put this in our museum. And
the next time you come, you’ll be able to see the work that
you’ve done. All right? Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank
you.
AMY GOODMAN: So, that’s children of the descendants of the
Elaine massacre victims, handing jars of soil to the great civil
rights leader Bryan Stevenson, which brings us to Julia Wright,
the daughter of Richard Wright, the acclaimed writer who lived
there in Elaine. Can you talk about this moment, the memorial
that is happening now, and what happened then, Julia?
JULIA WRIGHT: It was absolutely — I have no words for what
happened. We were watching through Zoom, because the family
couldn’t travel. And we watched those 12 children with their
hands in the soil. And Dr. Mary Olson, who’s the director of the
Elaine Legacy Center, was telling them, “Your hands will be
forever on that soil.” And just the idea of those children, who
are survivors, bringing the soil, the memorial soil of my own
great-uncle, was like the closing of a circle. And it made me
think a lot about intergenerational trauma and how it’s handed
down, and how it’s prevented from being handed down, by silence.
And what struck me, Amy, on Friday, listening in to the
symposium and to the descendants speaking, is that they were all
breaking that silence. They were speaking their own narratives,
and the joy of being able to break silence, to break — you know,
that sentence my father has in Black Boy, my mother — the fear
my mother had slapped me into silence. She slapped me into
silence, she was so afraid. And what happened on Friday in
Elaine was a reversal of that. Everybody was breaking through
their own silence with their own narratives.
And that is why it’s so appropriate to have Paul Ortiz here
today, because Paul Ortiz is an oral historian who gives value
to — how can I say? — oral testimony, not written testimony, the
oral, the words that we can say when we break through our
silence. And I know — I can remember Noelle Hanrahan, the
director of Prison Radio in Philadelphia, telling me that
everybody in Philadelphia knows how corrupt the police are, but
what the criminal justice system doesn’t want is it to get into
the written record. It must remain unsaid. It must remain part
of the silence. So, our oral testimony is our voyage towards
getting it written. And the work of Paul Ortiz and all the oral
historians is invaluable.
AMY GOODMAN: Paul, let’s talk about that issue of oral history,
who gets documented and who doesn’t, as it relates to Elaine and
so much more. It is what you are a master of. You are running an
entire program called the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at
University of Florida, Gainesville.
PAUL ORTIZ: Well, Amy, one of our — one of the greatest honors
that I’ve ever had as an oral historian, of course, is to be
able to work with Julia Wright. And in 2019, the Elaine Legacy
Center invited the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and our
students and staff to Elaine to help document this history. And
what’s so important is, you know, I think, as historians, we —
any type of source we can get, we’re going to use. To echo what
Julia Wright said, the oral sources are so important because
oftentimes the official sources were created by the perpetrators
of anti-Black violence. Oftentimes the official sources were
created by the perpetrators of anti-Mexican violence.
This is why the work of Ida B. Wells is so important. I would
consider her one of the first great oral historians, and maybe
the greatest oral historian in this country’s history, Amy,
because Ida B. Wells went behind the official sources to talk
directly to the families of those who had been lynched. She went
to Elaine. She talked directly to the victims of torture, of
persecution. And so her narrative is radically different than
the narrative of the front page in The New York Times, Amy.
Their response to the Elaine massacre initially was that Black
people had been involved in a plot to kill all white people.
That ran on the front page of The New York Times. So, the work
of Ida B. Wells as oral historian is to go behind that story and
actually dig to find the truth.
This is what we try to do in the Samuel Proctor Oral History
Program today. We’re involved with communities in Elaine and
also in communities in Ocoee, Florida, which suffered a horrific
anti-Black massacre on Election Day in 1920. We have done work
in Rosewood, Florida. We’ve done work in our own county, Alachua
County.
AMY GOODMAN: The massacre in Rosewood.
PAUL ORTIZ: Yes, in the massacre in Rosewood. But the thing I
think to remember, as Julia knows, the Elaine massacre is
horrific, but it’s one of many, scores, perhaps hundreds, of
massacres. It happens during Red Summer. And it happens during a
time when especially African American farmworkers and farm
owners are trying to create new ways of becoming economically
viable. They’re going to cooperative purchasing and marketing of
their crops. They’re beginning to unionize. And they’re
beginning to try to break through the system of white supremacy.
And I think the Elaine Legacy Center has really nailed it when
they talk about Elaine as being really one of the key founding
places of the civil rights movement, because even though the
Elaine massacre ends up in this horrific — these horrific
incidents of anti-Black violence and murder, there’s a power
that Black people find in collective organizing, and they refuse
to allow the victims of the Elaine massacre to be — to go away
silent.
AMY GOODMAN: Speaking of hearing the voices that Professor Ortiz
is just talking about, I want to go back to Julia Wright. I want
to go back to Elaine and Richard Wright, where Richard Wright
lived as a child. I want to go to the clip from the Emmy
Award-winning film, Richard Wright: Black Boy, the first
documentary on Richard’s life, work and legacy.
AMIRI BARAKA: It was Wright who was one of the people who made
me conscious of the need to struggle. You understand what I
mean? Even though later I come up and say, “Well, man, I don’t
agree with that. I don’t agree with that.” Still, in the sense
of him describing and analyzing the whole existence of Black
people as an oppressed nation, that’s priceless.
RICHARD WRIGHT: I was scared. Scared! All my life, I heard of
Black men being killed because of white girls. And there I was.
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE: Richard Wright proved that a Black writer
could write considerably better than most of the white writers
of his day. And after Native Son, the condescending attitude
toward Black writers was over.
MARGARET WALKER ALEXANDER: He said, “Nothing comes before my
art.” For him, his art was sacred. He didn’t care about anything
else but that. What he had to do was the most important thing.
AMY GOODMAN: The clip from Richard Wright: Black Boy. Julia
Wright, if you can talk more about what they are getting at and
the power of your father’s work? Of course, you’re the executor
of his estate.
JULIA WRIGHT: Well, it stands the test of the murder of George
Floyd. It stands the test of the denied justice to Emmett Till
for 67 years. His work is more — I don’t know, maybe I can use
the word; it’s a bit cheesy, but — prescient than ever. My
father did see very far ahead. He paid the price for it.
But I’d like to come back to something absolutely marvelous that
I discovered because of what happened Friday in Elaine and
seeing all these guests singing and speaking and breaking their
silence, that actually Black Boy was born from that very
breaking of a silence. In 1943, my father had traveled down
South with Horace Cayton, who was a psychoanalyst — a
sociologist interested in psychoanalysis. And they had gone to
Fisk, where my father was invited to speak. But they were in the
train, and on the train down South they experienced a racial
incident. They were segregated behind a curtain. And my father,
as usual, was very angry. And he arrived in Fisk without any
notes written. He hadn’t written his lecture because he was so
upset. And he advanced towards the lectern without anything
prepared in advance. And he broke the silence of his mind, and
he poured out his emotions, the emotions born on that train. And
when the lecture ended, the whole room was so silent, you could
hear a pin drop. And people started — it was a biracial
audience. People started clutching their pocketbooks and leaving
with their heads low. And one professor came up to him and said,
“Wow, you’ve told the truth. Everybody’s leaving because you’ve
told the truth.” And that’s when my father realized that he was
going to write Black Boy.
AMY GOODMAN: Julia, I wanted to ask about — well, we’re speaking
to you in Portugal now. We’ve spoken to you when you — you know,
when you’re in Paris, France. Your father moved to France. If
you can talk about how what has happened in the United States —
I mean, you’re an American, but you live outside of the country,
you come in occasionally — how it led you to live in Europe?
JULIA WRIGHT: Well, first of all, my father chose
self-expatriation, and the whole family followed. We have
remained loyal to that choice.
However, Amy, this lynching goes on everywhere in the world,
because we are everywhere. We are a diaspora everywhere. And to
go full circle back to the lynching memorial museum, I’ve been
speaking with sisters and brothers in Europe about a need,
perhaps, for their own lynching museum there. And I’ll only
mention one case in Brussels, about a — they call him the
Belgian George Floyd. He was choked in very much the same
manner. And his family, who are very poor — he’s an African. His
family, very poor, decided to question his manner of death. And
much pressure was put on the state to dissuade them from
questioning the murder, but the father persisted. And so, the
body had to be put in the morgue. And during the time of the
trial, the body stayed in the morgue, because that’s the law.
And it is the family who had to pay 25 euros a day to the
morgue, to the state, because they had dared question the manner
of murder.
So, it’s everywhere, Amy. And just as Paul Ortiz was saying that
perhaps survivors of massacres throughout the country should
unite and exchange experiences, and even have massacre reunions
— there’s a whole hidden map of massacres, we could link up — in
the same way, there are lynchings throughout the world we must
pay attention to.
AMY GOODMAN: And before we end, if you could talk more about the
Elaine Museum in Arkansas that held the memorial 103 years after
the Elaine massacre, and the Richard Wright Civil Rights Center,
that is planning to be built in Elaine?
JULIA WRIGHT: I have not been there. It’s a wrench, Amy, but I —
because of my age and COVID, I was unable to travel. It’s a work
in progress. I am so proud. They invited me in Elaine to be a
member of the Elaine Legacy Center, so I’m now a member. And
it’s very exciting. We’re going to plan what the first
initiative of the Richard Wright Civil Rights Center is going to
be.
AMY GOODMAN: And —
JULIA WRIGHT: Maybe some — yeah?
AMY GOODMAN: And —
JULIA WRIGHT: Maybe something — yes?
AMY GOODMAN: Go ahead.
JULIA WRIGHT: Maybe mass incarceration.
AMY GOODMAN: And finally, the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal has been
very close to your heart for many, many years. Can you talk
about what’s upcoming in his case?
JULIA WRIGHT: A very important date, Amy: 19th of October is the
date where he will appear in court in Philadelphia, where we
hope to have a maximum of mobilization around the court,
because, at last, after 36 years, the hidden boxes, where proof
of his innocence were hidden in the prosecutor’s office storage
room, will be submitted by the defense in front of a judge in
the appeals court. They gathered dust for 36 years. In one of
the boxes, there is a letter written by one of the witnesses,
asking the prosecutor, “Where is my money?” There is further
proof that the jury was tampered with, so that it would be all
the Blacks would be stricken off. And other proof of corruption
is contained in those boxes. But time is ticking. The proof was
hidden. And Mumia’s health is deteriorating.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, Julia Wright, I want to thank you so much for
being with us, daughter of the literary giant Richard Wright,
and she herself a writer, a poet in her own right. I want to
thank you for being with us, today joining us from Portugal.
JULIA WRIGHT: Thank you.
AMY GOODMAN: And I want to thank Paul Ortiz, professor of
history, director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at
University of Florida, joining us from Raleigh, North Carolina,
where he’s giving a Hispanic heritage speech at Duke University.
Professor Ortiz is author of the book An African American and
Latinx History of the United States. To see Part 1 of our
discussion, you can go to democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman.
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until there is a radical redistribution of economic and
political power... this means a revolution of values and other
things.” — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 🕊️
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ideology was his dissatisfaction with the
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SNIPPET:
Every day, our communities grapple with the consequences of
life-altering experiences like racial discrimination,
corporate-backed housing insecurity, and increased cost of
living regardless of zip code or income. We must reflect on Dr.
King's life and work, while also waiving a 🚩 warning
flag for
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😈 best to keep his dream 🕊️ of equality
and liberation unrealized.
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The far right opposes the idea that the United States has ever
practiced systemic racism.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: February 20, 2023, 11:09 am
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AGelbert NOTE: Heather Cox Richardson 🗽 gives a history
lesson to [glow=brown,2,300]😈 those[/glow] who
disingenuously claim that there
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/>"[glow=brown,2,300]has never been, nor is there now[/glow]",
SYSTEMIC Racism in the USA.
This quote from a recent Stephen F. Eisman 🗽 article
summarizes WHY the USA is so systemically racist.
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> "The United States is afflicted by a basic fault, a lack,
arising from the failures of its founding parents. Washington,
Jefferson, Adams, and the rest, despite Blake’s idealization,
endorsed slavery, racism and the laws and institutions that
supported them. Succeeding generations of elected and appointed
officials fostered Civil War, Jim Crow, and Klan terrorism; they
thwarted school de-segregation and chipped away at the
protections afforded by the Civil Rights Act of 1964; they
created COINTELPRO, waged a racist war on drugs, and allowed
police brutality and mass incarceration to reign. Gross
inequalities of income, wealth and health characterize the
current social order." -- 2023 [glow=teal,2,300]Stephen F.
Eisman[/glow]
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February 19, 2023
[glow=teal,2,300]HEATHER COX RICHARDSON[/glow]
Today in the Washington Post, Nick Anderson showed how the
Advanced Placement course on African American studies changed
between February 2022, when its prototype first appeared, and
February 2023, when the official version was released. One word,
in particular, had vanished: the word “systemic.” In February
2022, “systemic” appeared before “marginalization; in April
2022, “systemic” came before “discrimination, oppression,
inequality, disempowerment and racism.”
By February 2023, that word was gone. While the College Board,
which produces the AP courses, says it did not change the course
in response to its rejection by Republican Florida governor Ron
DeSantis, who said it contributed to a “political agenda,” its
spokespeople have acknowledged that they were aware of how the
right wing would react to that word.
The far right opposes the idea that the United States has ever
practiced systemic racism. Shortly before former president Trump
left office, his hand-picked President’s Advisory 1776
Commission produced its report to stand against the 1619 Project
that rooted the United States in the year enslaved Africans
first set foot in the English colonies on the Chesapeake, and
went on to claim that systemic racism had shaped the eventual
American nation.
Trump’s 1776 commission rejected the conclusions of the 1619
Project’s authors and instead declared that “the American people
have ever pursued freedom and justice.” While “the American
story has its share of missteps, errors, contradictions, and
wrongs,” it asserted, “[t]hese wrongs have always met resistance
from the clear principles of the nation, and therefore our
history is far more one of self-sacrifice, courage, and
nobility.”
Since Trump left office, far-right activists have passed laws
prohibiting teachers from talking about patterns of racism and
have worked to remove from classrooms and school libraries books
whose subjects must overcome systemic discrimination.
Today is the anniversary of the day in 1942, during World War
II, that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive
Order 9066 enabling military authorities to designate military
areas from which “any or all persons may be excluded.” That
order also permitted the secretary of war to provide
transportation, food, and shelter “to accomplish the purpose of
this order.”
Four days later, a Japanese submarine off the coast of Santa
Barbara, California, shelled the Ellwood Oil Field, and the
Office of Naval Intelligence warned that the Japanese would
attack California in the next ten hours. On February 25 a
meteorological balloon near Los Angeles set off a panic, and
troops fired 1,400 rounds of antiaircraft ammunition at supposed
Japanese attackers.
On March 2, 1942, General John DeWitt put Executive Order 9066
into effect. He signed Public Proclamation No. 1, dividing the
country into military zones and, “as a matter of military
necessity,” excluding from certain of those zones “[a]ny
Japanese, German, or Italian alien, or any person of Japanese
Ancestry.” Under DeWitt’s orders, about 125,000 children, women,
and men of Japanese ancestry were forced out of their homes and
held in camps around the country. Two thirds of those
incarcerated were U.S. citizens.
DeWitt’s order did not come from nowhere. After almost a century
of shaping laws to discriminate against Asian newcomers, West
Coast inhabitants and lawmakers were primed to see their
Japanese and Japanese-American neighbors as dangerous.
Those laws reached back to the arrival of Chinese miners to
California in 1849, and reached forward into the twentieth
century. Indeed, on another February 19—that of 1923—the Supreme
Court decided the case of United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind.
It said that [glow=blue,2,300]Thind, an Indian Sikh man[/glow]
who identified himself as Indo-European, could not become a U.S.
citizen. Thind claimed the right to United States citizenship
under the terms of the Naturalization Act of 1906, which had put
the federal government instead of states in charge of who got to
be a citizen and had very specific requirements for citizenship
that he believed he had met.
But, [glow=red,2,300]the court said[/glow],
[glow=blue,2,300]Thind[/glow] was [glow=red,2,300]not a “white
person” under U.S. law[/glow], and only “free white persons”
could become citizens.
What were they talking about?[glow=red,2,300] In the Thind
decision, the
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/>Supreme Court[/glow] reached back to the case of Japan-born
Takao Ozawa, decided a year before, in 1922. In that case, the
Supreme Court ruled that Ozawa could not become a citizen under
the 1906 Naturalization Act because that law had not overridden
the [glow=red,2,300]1790 naturalization law limiting citizenship
to “free white persons."[/glow] The[glow=red,2,300] court[/glow]
decided that [glow=red,2,300]“white person”[/glow] meant
[glow=red,2,300]“persons of the Caucasian Race.”[/glow] “A
Japanese, born in Japan, being clearly not a Caucasian, cannot
be made a citizen of the United States,” it said.
As the 1922 case indicated, Asian Americans could not rely on
the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868,
to permit them to become citizens, because [glow=red,2,300]a law
from 1790 knocked a hole in that[/glow]
[glow=blue,2,300]amendment[/glow]. The
[glow=blue,2,300]Fourteenth Amendment[/glow] provided that “all
persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and
of the state wherein they reside.” But as soon as that
[glow=blue,2,300]amendment went into effect[/glow], the
👿 [glow=red,2,300]new states and territories of the
West[/glow] reached back to the [glow=red,2,300]1790
naturalization law[/glow] to exclude Asian immigrants from
citizenship based on the argument that they were not “free,
white persons.”
That [glow=red,2,300]1790 restriction[/glow], based in early
lawmakers’ determination to guarantee that enslaved Africans
could not claim citizenship, enabled lawmakers after the Civil
War to exclude Asian immigrants from citizenship.
From that exclusion grew laws discriminating against Chinese
immigrants, including the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act that
prohibited Chinese workers from migrating to the United States.
Then, when Chinese immigration slowed and Japanese immigration
took its place, the U.S. backed the so-called Gentlemen’s
Agreement of 1907 under which Japanese officials promised to
stop emigration to the United States. The United States, in
turn, promised not to restrict the rights of Japanese already in
the United States, although laws prohibiting “aliens” from
owning land meant Japanese settlers either lost their land or
had to put it in the names of their American-born children, who
were citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment.
In 1942, the assumption that Japanese Americans were dangerous
and anti-American was rooted back in the earliest years of the
country, in the [glow=red,2,300]1790 naturalization law designed
to make sure[/glow] that Africans could not become United States
citizens.
After the [glow=red,2,300]1923 Thind decision[/glow], the United
States stripped the citizenship of about 50 South Asian
Americans who had already become American citizens. One of them
was Vaishno Das Bagai, an immigrant from what is now Pakistan
who came from wealth and who settled in San Francisco in 1915
with his wife and three sons to start a business. Less than
three weeks after arriving in the United States, Bagai began the
process of naturalization. He became a citizen in 1920.
The [shadow=red,left]Thind decision[/shadow] took that
citizenship away from Bagai, making him fall under California’s
alien land laws saying he could not own land. He lost his home
and his business. In 1928, explicitly telling the San Francisco
Examiner that he was taking his life in protest of racial
discrimination, Bagai died by suicide.
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/>His widow, Kala Bagai, became a community activist.
World War II changed U.S. calculations of who could be a citizen
as global alliances shifted and all Americans turned out to save
democracy. From Japanese-American internment camps, young men
joined the army to fight for the nation. In 1943, the War
Department authorized the formation of Japanese-American combat
units. One of those units, the 442d Regimental Combat Team,
became the most decorated unit for its size in U.S. military
history. Their motto was “Go for Broke.”
Congress overturned Chinese exclusion laws in 1943 and, in 1946,
made natives of India eligible for U.S. citizenship. Japanese
immigrants gained the right to become U.S. citizens in 1952.
“[ S ]elf-sacrifice, courage and nobility” definitely enabled
people like Thind, Vaishno Das Bagai and Kala Bagai, and the
soldiers of the 442d Regimental Combat Team to assert “the clear
principles of the nation.” But it’s hard to see how a teacher
can explain “missteps, errors, contradictions, and wrongs” from
1942 that were rooted in a [glow=red,2,300]law from 1790[/glow]
without using the word “systemic.”
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Notes:
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HTML https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/executive-order-9066#transcript
HTML https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/pioneerlife/id/15297
HTML https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/artifact/h-r-40-naturalization-bill-march-4-1790
HTML https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/260/178/
HTML https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/261/204/
HTML https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Presidents-Advisory-1776-Commission-Final-Report.pdf
HTML https://www.saada.org/tides/article/united-states-of-america-vs-vaishno-das-bagai
HTML https://www.npr.org/2023/01/27/1151725129/florida-advanced-placement-african-american-studies-backlash
HTML https://immigrationhistory.org/item/thind-v-united-states%E2%80%8B/
HTML https://scholarscollaborative.org/PuertoRico/items/show/79
HTML https://history.army.mil/html/topics/apam/442rct.html
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