US/racism/anti-black

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This page is about racism directed against black people in the 🇺🇸.

Conclusions

 * 1. Slavery in the US has been almost entirely white enslavement of black people.
 * 2. The primary cause of this enslavement was not because white people believed black people were inferior (although many white people did believe this), but because they needed a justification for enslavement.
 * 3. They needed this justification in order to obtain cheap labor, because that was much easier (and more profitable, in the sense of wealth concentration) than working out fair labor-sharing arrangements.
 * 4. As the institution of slavery became an established part of American culture, especially in the South, more Americans came to accept as fact the idea that black people were inferior and that it was their "place" to serve.
 * 5. Slavery in the area now known as the USA pre-dates the existence of the USA as a country, and was initiated by Europeans.
 * 6. Although now legally free and equal, black people suffered from the remnants of slavery law (e.g. "Jim Crow" laws) up until at least the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
 * 7. Black people -- and, to some extent, other non-whites -- continue to suffer from the attitudes ingrained in American culture due to the long endurance of slavery as an institution.
 * 8. While other US immigrant groups received quite intense discrimination (e.g. Jewish and Irish "ghettoes"), the degree and extent of this discrimination is not really comparable to that experienced by black people, nor has it been as enduring or as deadly.

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 * 2014-02-23 Orlando Sentinel Runs Letter Justifying Fear of Blacks "Just turn on the local news at 6 p.m., and you see a substantial number of young African-American males arrested for a variety of violent crimes night after night. It is the same when you read the local newspaper."
 * 2007-07-03 A black man in the White House?: some historical perspective on racism in DC, as background for what Barack Obama might be facing as a presidential candidate
 * 2007-06-13 Hear these kids talk about the future by Leonard Pitts, Jr.: YouthBuild kids, many from "broken" homes, talk about their futures and try to hold on to their optimism.
 * 2007-06-03 'Oppressed' whites? Give me a break by Leonard Pitts, Jr.
 * 2007-05-07 Racism lurks in the shadows for Obama by Leonard Pitts, Jr.: more about racism than about Obama
 * 2007-04-22 Obama: Blacks as guilty as Imus