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A good summary of Project 2025...be prepared!

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"I think one reason students make these demands is that they feel a real gap between what they are learning and the various crises of the world around them, even though they may not always present it this way. I think they are searching for a way to make sense of their world. I do wish the dimension of epistemic decolonization would be more pronounced in such calls. They often become debates about representation without sufficient conversation about what we hope such representation will produce, which is the most important part of the debate."

--- Adom Getachew, is Professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. She is the author of "She is the author of "Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination."

"I've often said, looking back, that it was all inevitable, SNCC being what it was. Look, when we took on white supremacy and the Klan, we were attacked. But we survived. We took on the president and the National Democratic Party and survived that. When we opposed the [Vietnam] war and the draft, we were really attacked, but survived even that. But dare to open our mouths on Zionism? That one, you don't mess with and survive. That was the lesson the Zionist thought police meant for us to learn in 1967. But we are still here. On this one, history will certainly be the judge. That, you can depend on.

Since these (1967) events, I am proud to say that I have never ceased to speak out and work for justice for the Palestinian people. Consequently, the attacks---on me personally and increasingly on my people---have been incessant. Here I mean scurrilous accusations of 'anti-Semitism,' by which you are meant to a primitive and bigoted hatred of all things Jewish. The Jews as people and Judaism as a religion and culture. Gimme a break. That 'ol dawg just won't hunt...

Of course there is a stain of ugly anti-Jewish religious bigotry in the United States. But have you known a single African ever to burn or bomb a synagogue, desecrate a Jewish tombstone, print swastikas on a Jewish door, or establish any restrictive quotas? C'mon, stop the nonsense."

--- Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) "Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)", p. 561, 562, 2003.

"The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things."
--- Assata Shakur, "Assata: An Autobiography", 1987

"One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George Washington was a slave owner . . . and simply remember the things we regard as creditable and inspiring.
The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that history loses its value as an incentive and example; it paints perfect man and noble nations, but it does not tell the truth.
--- W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction

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Lest We forget: On March 2-3, 1859, "The Weeping Time" occurred in Afrikan history. This was the largest sale of human beings in the history of the United States.

This episode took place at a racetrack in Savannah, Georgia. During the two-day auction, rain fell continuously almost as though the heavens were crying. So, too, tears fell from several of the 436 men, women, and children who were auctioned off. The sale would thereafter be known as "the weeping time." The slaver, Pierce Butler and his brother John, had inherited the family's Georgia plantations some twenty years earlier.
Butler's advertisement in The Savannah Republican on February 8, 1859 reads:

"FOR SALE. LONG COTTON AND RICE NEGROES.
A Gang of 460 Negroes, accustomed to the culture of Rice and Provisions; among whom are a number of good mechanics, and house servants. Will be sold on the 2d and 3d of March next, at Savannah, by JOSEPH BRYAN. Terms of Sale—One-third cash; remainder by bond, bearing interest from day of sale, payable in two equal annual instalments, to be secured by mortgage on the negroes, and approved personal security, or for approved city acceptance on Savannah or Charleston. Purchasers paying for papers. The Negroes will be sold in families, and can be seen on the premises of JOSEPH BRYAN, In Savannah, three days prior to the day of sale, when catalogues will be furnished. *** The Charleston Courier, (daily and tri-weekly;) Christian Index, Macon, Ga; Albany Patriot, Augusta Constitutionalist, Mobile Register, New Orleans Picayune, Memphis Appeal, Vicksburg Southern, and Richmond Whig, will publish till day of sale and send bills to this office."

But Pierce had squandered away his portion of the inheritance, losing a rumored $700,000; and was deeply in debt. Management of Pierce Butler's estate was transferred to trustees. The trustees sold off Butler's Philadelphia mansion for $30,000 and other Butler properties. But it was not enough to satisfy creditors or ensure that Butler would continue to live in luxury. So the Georgia plantations and their "moveable" property their slaves were next.

At the time, the overall Butler family holding included 900 enslaved Afrikans, divided into two groups of 450. Half would go to the estate of John, who had since died and would remain on the plantations. The fate of the other 450 Pierce's half was more precarious with about 20 of them continuing to live on the Butler property. The remainder were boarded onto railway cars and steamboats and brought to the Broeck racetrack, where each would be sold to the highest bidder.

There were differing viewpoints regarding the auction, Pierce Butler, and the large fortune he would gain after paying his debts. Philadelphia socialite Sidney George Fisher wrote in his diary, "It is highly honorable to [Butler] that he did all he could to prevent the sale, offering to make any personal sacrifice to avoid it."
Of the auction, Fisher wrote:

"It is a dreadful affair, however, selling these hereditary Negroes. Families will not be separated, that is to say, husbands and wives, parents and young children. But brothers and sisters of mature age, parents and children of mature age, all other relations and the ties of home and long association will be violently severed. It will be a hard thing for Butler to witness and it is a monstrous thing to do. Yet it is done every day in the South. It is one among the many frightful consequences of slavery and contradicts our civilization, our Christianity, or Republicanism. Can such a system endure; is it consistent with humanity, with moral progress? These are difficult questions, and still more difficult is it to say, what can be done? The Negroes of the South must be slaves or the South will be Africanized. Slavery is better for them and for us than such a result."

"An enslaved girl by the name of Molly insisted that she was lame in her left foot. But the auctioneer did not believe a word of it. A physician in Savannah had declared that Molly was not lame, but was only shamming. So Molly was put through her paces, and compelled to trot up and down along the stage, to go up and down the steps, and to exercise her feet in various ways, but always with the same result, the left foot would be lame. She was finally sold for $695 [equivalent to approximately $15,300 in today’s dollars]. To an enslaved person, a lameness, or anything that decreases his market value, is a thing to be rejoiced over. A man in the prime of life, worth $1,600 [equivalent to approximately $35,200 in today’s dollars] or thereabouts, can have little hope of ever being able, by any little savings of his own, to purchase his liberty. But, let him have a rupture, or lose a limb, or sustain any other injury that renders him of much less service to his owner, and he reduces his value to $300 [$8,260 in today’s dollars] or $400 [$11,000 in today’s dollars], and he may hope to accumulate that sum, and eventually to purchase his liberty. Freedom without health is infinitely sweeter than health without freedom."

Mortimer Thomson, a popular newsman of the day wrote a lengthy, uncomplimentary article about the auction for the New York Tribune entitled "What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation." He reported how the slaves, eager to impress potential masters who they perceived as kind, would sometimes cheerfully respond to buyers "pulling their mouths open to see their teeth, pinching their limbs to find how muscular they were, walking them up and down to detect any signs of lameness, making them stoop and bend in different ways that they might be certain there was no concealed rupture or wound." Thomson also sympathized with the slaves after the sale, writing, "On the faces of all was an expression of heavy grief; some appeared to be resigned to the hard stroke of Fortune that had torn them from their homes, and were sadly trying to make the best of it; some sat brooding moodily over their sorrows, their chins resting on their hands, their eyes staring vacantly, and their bodies rocking to and fro, with a restless motion that was never stilled".

The two-day sale netted $303,850, in 1859. The highest price paid for one family a mother and her five grown children was $6,180. The highest price for one individual was $1,750. The lowest price for any one slave was $250. Soon after the last slave was sold, the rain stopped. Champagne bottles popped in celebration. And Pierce Butler, once again wealthy, made a trip to southern Europe before returning home to Philadelphia.

Source: Library of Congress, Atlanta BlackStar

"Actually, people often tricked, dragged or kidnapped free Blacks, especially children, into slavery. In December 1851, two slave catchers came up to the back door of a rural farmhouse in Chester County, Pennsylvania. When sixteen-year old Rachel Parker answered the door, one of the men grabbed her by the arm and pulled the free Black Philadelphis-born girl outside. Both she and her previously kidnapped sister, Elizabeth, wound up in Baltimore and, in Elizabeth's case, in New Orleans before they were eventually freed and brought home. Meanwhile, Rachel Parker's employer, Joseph Miller, who had charged one of the girl's abductors with kidnapping, disappeared from the platform of a train. His body was later found hanging from a tree about nine miles from Baltimore."

---Betty DeRamus, "Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad, 2005, p. 131.

Lest We forget: The 1920 publication of "The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy", by Lothrop Stoddard...

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The Rising Tide of Color: The Threat Against White World-Supremacy (1920), by Lothrop Stoddard, is a book about racialism and geopolitics, which describes the collapse of white supremacy and colonialism because of the population growth among people of color, rising nationalism in colonized nations, and industrialization in China and Japan. To counter the perceived geopolitical threat, Stoddard advocated Nordicism, racial segregation, and general racism, restricting non-white immigration into white-majority countries, restricting immigration of non-members of the "Nordic race" to countries primarily containing members of the "Nordic race"; restricting Asian migration to Africa; and slowly giving independence to European colonies in Asia (including the Middle East). A noted eugenicist, Stoddard supported a separation of the "primary races" of the world and warned against miscegenation, the mixing of the races.

Publication and reception

In 1920, The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy was positively reviewed and recommended by The New York Times: "Lothrop Stoddard evokes a new peril, that of an eventual submersion beneath vast waves of yellow men, brown men, black men and red men, whom the Nordics have hitherto dominated . . . with Bolshevism menacing us on the one hand and race extinction through warfare on the other, many people are not unlikely to give [Stoddard's book] respectful consideration".

Civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois stated "the Nordic peoples...have been responsible for more intermixture of races than any other people, ancient and modern," and in reply to whites' fears of miscegenation declared "Who in Hell asked to marry your daughters?"

In reply to Stoddard's notion that "if the Negroes have separate schools, they shall be good schools; that if they have separate train accommodations, they shall have good accommodations", black audiences allegedly laughed in disbelief.

In 1921, in a speech to a mixed-race audience in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. President Warren Harding said that Black Americans must have full economic and political rights, but that segregation was also essential to prevent "racial amalgamation" and that social equality was thus a dream that Blacks must give up, and used the book to support his segregationist views: "Whoever will take the time to read and ponder Mr. Lothrop Stoddard’s book on The Rising Tide of Color . . . must realize that our race problem here in the United States is only a phase of a race issue that the whole world confronts."

Source: Wikipedia

The most comprehensive site for enslaved Afrikans revolts. Extraordinary information about how we *always* resisted.

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"On 17 August 1840 the day of a great Whig political convention in Nashville, Tennessee, Jake a slave owned by an old and respected farmer, Robert Bradford, refused to go to work.

Like other Blacks in the neighborhood, he wanted to go to the convention, listen to the speeches, and attend the celebration.
The overseer informed Bradford that Jake was 'in an ugly mood' and asked him what to do. Bradford said he would speak with Jake and see if he could calm him down. Bradford was unable to placate the Black man and ordered his oversee to tie him up for a whipping. Jake quickly drew a knife. 'Whether he aimed to cut the rope or the overseer no one knew," a Nashville slave recalled, 'but he made a wild thrust which killed Mr. Bradford on the spot.'

Jake absconded into the woods. Nine days later a notice appeared in the Nashville Whig [newspaper]: “a thirty-year old slave named Jake, a raw-boned, quick-spoken man of bright complexion, weighing about 160 or 170 pounds, had murdered old man Bradford. When he escaped he was dressed in white homespun 'linsey pantaloons, and roundabout.” A short time later, Governor James K. Polk offered a reward for the slave's apprehension. Despite concerted efforts by constable, justices of the peace and local citizens, Jake remained at large for a number of months. Finally however, he was captured, tried, convicted and hanged. Few lamented his passing, but the death of the esteemed Bradford was universally mourned by whites in the community."

--- John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger in their book, "Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation", p. 1