White Supremacy:
It’s a strange concept, isn’t it? To say that one race is somehow genetically superior to another. It dates back to slavery, in which, in the most simplistic way possible, white people descended on America, and, in the same way that they claimed the country’s soil as their own; individuals were declared the property of other people. This, to the vast majority of modern citizens, would be unthinkable.
I mean, the very concept of dictating who has the right to marry and who has somehow forfeited that prerogative based on their race is utterly barbaric.
Let’s talk about the America Civil War. By the 1850’s, it was becoming increasingly clear that slavery was not a sustainable concept. America’s Northern states had already relinquished their slaves; it was the south, the fundamentally traditionalist South, that had the issue. So much so in fact that the Confederate States were formed, a coalition which included: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. in 1861. The concept was thus: that these states rejected President Lincoln’s …show more content…
There was a documentary on Channel Four in the UK a few days ago, explaining the modern Klan, and ow quickly the membership was apparently rising.
There are so many things fundamentally wrong with the fact that its existence continues. I mean, really, how exactly do the white hoods of the Ku Klux Klan differ from the Nazi flag and solute? Yes, technically they’re just symbols, but they have connotations. In the same way that the Nazi flag reminds people of the millions of Jewish, homosexual, disabled, etc, people who were brutally murdered under Adolf Hitler’s tyrannical reign, the KKK’s symbols have a history of racism to the extreme- the horrific lynchings and murders that were carried out under the name of ‘white
It’s a strange concept, isn’t it? To say that one race is somehow genetically superior to another. It dates back to slavery, in which, in the most simplistic way possible, white people descended on America, and, in the same way that they claimed the country’s soil as their own; individuals were declared the property of other people. This, to the vast majority of modern citizens, would be unthinkable.
I mean, the very concept of dictating who has the right to marry and who has somehow forfeited that prerogative based on their race is utterly barbaric.
Let’s talk about the America Civil War. By the 1850’s, it was becoming increasingly clear that slavery was not a sustainable concept. America’s Northern states had already relinquished their slaves; it was the south, the fundamentally traditionalist South, that had the issue. So much so in fact that the Confederate States were formed, a coalition which included: Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. in 1861. The concept was thus: that these states rejected President Lincoln’s …show more content…
There was a documentary on Channel Four in the UK a few days ago, explaining the modern Klan, and ow quickly the membership was apparently rising.
There are so many things fundamentally wrong with the fact that its existence continues. I mean, really, how exactly do the white hoods of the Ku Klux Klan differ from the Nazi flag and solute? Yes, technically they’re just symbols, but they have connotations. In the same way that the Nazi flag reminds people of the millions of Jewish, homosexual, disabled, etc, people who were brutally murdered under Adolf Hitler’s tyrannical reign, the KKK’s symbols have a history of racism to the extreme- the horrific lynchings and murders that were carried out under the name of ‘white