Wow! So it’s not bad enough that we White people are racist by virtue of birth, but now we need the UN to tell us how racist we are. We went from America First with Trump to now going to America Sucks with Biden. SMH.
opneeds continuing history's inability to cooperate to overcome workers and slaves alike being profitted and controlled by their masters
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Only one fear was greater than the fear of black rebellion in the newAmerican colonies.
That was the fear that discontented whites would joinblack slaves to overthrow the existing order. In the early years of slavery,especially, before racism as a way of thinking was firmly ingrained, whilewhite indentured servants were often treated as badly as black slaves, therewas a possibility of cooperation. As Edmund Morgan sees it:There are hints that the two despised groups initially saw each other as sharing the same predicament. It wascommon, for example, for servants and slaves to run away together, steal hogs together, get drunk together. It wasnot uncommon for them to make love together. In Bacon’s Rebellion, one of the last groups to surrender was a mixedband of eighty negroes and twenty English servants.As Morgan says, masters, “initially at least, perceived slaves in much the sameway they had always perceived servants . . . shiftless, irresponsible, unfaithful,ungrateful, dishonest. . . .” And “if freemen with disappointed hopes shouldmake common cause with slaves of desperate hope, the results might be worsethan anything Bacon had done.............The point is that the elements of this web are historical, not “natural.” Thisdoes not mean that they are easily disentangled, dismantled. It means only thatthere is a possibility for something else, under historical conditions not yetrealized.
And one of these conditions would be the elimination of that classexploitation which has made poor whites desperate for small gifts of status,and has prevented that unity of black and white necessary for joint rebellionand reconstruction."