"16 Books About Race That Every White Person Should Read
Add these to your reading list today.
By Zeba Blay 12/3/2015
Americans do not like to talk about slavery. What is worse, they do not want to know what slavery was like, the cruelty, the rape, the beatings, the dehumanizing, the dividing of families, using children as a piece of meat, using people / humans as property like a lawnmower or a tractor.
Read about slavery and THEN tell me the Confederate flag is worthy of a public show!
"The Peculiar Institution" by Kenneth M. Stamp
"Black Protest History, Documents, and Analysis, 1619 to the Present" by Joanne Grant
"Slavery - A Problem in American Institutional & Intellectual Life" by Stanley M. Elkins
"Reconstruction After the Civil War" by John Hope Franklin
"The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism" by Edward Baptist
"The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
And, while we are at it, maybe we should read about the genocide of the American Indian, America's own holocaust, which seems to be even more overlooked than the history of slavery.
"Atrocities Against Native Americans"
"Numerous atrocities against Native Americans span the hundreds of years from the first arrival of European explorers to the modern era under a wide range of circumstances. Today there are over 500 Native American tribes in the United States, each with a distinct culture, way of life and history. Even today, Native Americans face large challenges to cope with the disadvantages history has left them and ongoing cases of discrimination.
10 million+ Estimated number of Native Americans living in land that is now the United States when European explorers first arrived in the 15th century
Less than 300,000 Estimated number of Native Americans living in the United States around 1900
5.2 million identified as American Indian or Alaska Native in the 2010 census"
http://endgenocide.org/learn/past-genocides/native-americans/
Ironically, or maybe intentionally, there do not seem to be a lot of coverage of the American slaughter of native American Indians.
READ before you judge, and stop being the dumb white person criticizing protests and people of color when White Privilege people should be apologizing and praying for a way to get forgiveness on your way to whatever you see of the afterlife where YOU will be judged.
Now look at the Confederate flag.
Confederacy was necessary to defend slavery, OK, but adjustments were required to save humans! Black people are humans, not cattle, or work horses.
Racism is on the rise in America; do your homework people!
Putting the American flag next to the Confederate flag is FAR worse than kneeling during the national anthem. Period!
"John Oliver's Stirring History Lesson on Confederacy and Slavery: 'Monuments Are Not How We Record History—Books Are, Statues Glorify People'"
By Tufayel Ahmed On 10/9/17 at 8:01 AM
"What This Cruel War Was Over"
The meaning of the Confederate flag is best discerned in the words of those who bore it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates Jun 22, 2015
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/what-this-cruel-war-was-over/396482/
Slaves were essential to the economy of the South, including Texas.
Tweety and Retired marine General say Confederate Generals were honorable. They were traitors fighting to keep black human beings as slaves to beat, rape, and kill any time they wanted.
There was no urgency to free the slaves from North or South, and compromises WERE made to keep the slaves enslaved as long as possible. There was no urgency to free these human beings from beatings and murder. Dogs got better treatment and more sympathy!
"The Civil War Was About Slavery. Confederate Leaders Were Totally Clear On This."
By Julia Craven 06/22/2015 08:09 pm ET Updated Jun 22, 2015
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/22/civil-war-slavery_n_7639988.html
