Posted in History, Race Relations on Aug 27th, 2008
Following up on the previous post.
The United States was founded as a “white man’s country.” Outside of New England, Americans didn’t believe in the political equality of the negro. Here are the dates that individual states took legislative action to disenfranchise negroes:
Virginia (1723, 1762, 1830, 1850)
Georgia (1777)
South Carolina (1716, 1790, 1810)
Delaware (1792)
Kentucky (1799)
Maryland (1801, 1810)
Ohio [...]
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Posted in History, Race Relations, Racialism on Aug 23rd, 2008
By 1855, only five states in the Union had not restricted the voting rights of free negroes: Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. In other words, New England. This and many other entries have been added to the American Racial History Timeline.
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Posted in History, Race Relations on Aug 18th, 2008
James Madison’s war message which was used to justify the War of 1812 included the following paragraph about the “Native Americans”:
… except for one paragraph, “the warfare just renewed by the savages on one of our extensive frontiers - a warfare which is known to spare neither age nor sex and to be distinguished by [...]
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Posted in History, Race Relations on Aug 15th, 2008
At Firezone, a discussion of the origins of American anti-racism.
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Posted in History, Race Relations on Aug 11th, 2008
Lots of new entries from the Early National Period have been posted to the American Racial History Timeline. The older version is online at Firezone.
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Posted in History, Race Relations on Jul 24th, 2008
A strong background in American history is the most thorough antidote that I know of to much of the nonsense that prevails in the mainstream. This touches upon the Tanstaafl vs. Auster dispute below. In the nineteenth century, the term “Native American” used to be synonymous with “Anglo-Americans,” or English-speaking, native born whites:
Starting in 1835 [...]
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Posted in History, Race Relations, Racialism on Jul 22nd, 2008
I have restarted the American Racial History Timeline. Feel free to add contributions.
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Posted in Race Relations on Jul 19th, 2008
At View From the Right, Larry Auster has a new tirade up against Tanstaafl:
Or, when I speak of “Europeans” and “blacks,” am I being pro-European and anti-black, but if I instead write “whites” and “Negroes,” I’ve suddenly switched to Negro supremacism? How ridiculous. Capitalization is governed by the nature of the word, not by a [...]
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Posted in Race Relations on Jul 18th, 2008
A post of mine from Hatewatch:
Great Southern,
If you want to post incendiary statistics, why not juxtapose the exact number of all the white-on-black lynchings that ever happened in America over a hundred year period next to, say, the number of black male-on-white female rapes in a single year? For good measure, throw in some of [...]
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Posted in Diversity, Race Relations on Jul 16th, 2008
Americans give lip service to diversity, but practice homogeneity.
As it was eight years ago, few Americans have regular contact with people of other races, and few say their own workplaces or their own neighborhoods are integrated.
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