Posted on Feb 18, 2022
The threat of political violence in the United States
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If someone told you a few years back that the U.S. could be headed towards another civil war, you might’ve slowly backed away.
But the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has changed that conversation.
Nearly half of American adults think another civil war is likely. That number is even higher for young people between the ages of 18 and 29 according to a national survey conducted by pollster John Zogby in 2021.
Scholars who believe political violence is a serious problem are cautious about connecting it to the possibility of internal conflict.
So how should we be talking about the threat of political violence in the U.S.? And how useful, accurate, or harmful is the language of civil war in discussions about the where the country is headed?
But the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has changed that conversation.
Nearly half of American adults think another civil war is likely. That number is even higher for young people between the ages of 18 and 29 according to a national survey conducted by pollster John Zogby in 2021.
Scholars who believe political violence is a serious problem are cautious about connecting it to the possibility of internal conflict.
So how should we be talking about the threat of political violence in the U.S.? And how useful, accurate, or harmful is the language of civil war in discussions about the where the country is headed?
The threat of political violence in the United States
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I am playing this out in my mind. Trump was the biggest hater in the country. He did so to make impassioned supporters who believed in his lies and hate. If you don’t believe his hate then why did he attack veterans a couple days after their death? He attacked his own scientists. The list is endless.
He also used other methods to harness the hate of his supporters by trying to control the media. That is another ploy dictators indulge in. The federal government was curtailed because they feared Trump. He wanted to control the apparatus and the people.
I think due to the investigations Trump will lose his political capital and think the hate will decrease. What a loathsome person and ignorant Trump supporters.
He also used other methods to harness the hate of his supporters by trying to control the media. That is another ploy dictators indulge in. The federal government was curtailed because they feared Trump. He wanted to control the apparatus and the people.
I think due to the investigations Trump will lose his political capital and think the hate will decrease. What a loathsome person and ignorant Trump supporters.
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CIVIL WAR | ARTICLE
The Lost Cause: Definition and Origins
October 30, 2020 • Updated March 25, 2021
“As the Civil War drew to a close in 1865, defeated Southerners looked around at the death and destruction that the war had inflicted on their homes, businesses, towns, and families. “The South was not only…conquered, it was utterly destroyed…More than half [of] the farm machinery was ruined, and…Southern wealth decreased by 60 percent,” states historian James M. McPherson. The war initiated over the issue of the preservation of slavery, as pronounced in the seceding states’ articles of secession and in the Confederacy’s constitution, was the cause of this devastation. “The prohibition of slavery in the Territories is the cardinal principle of this organization.,” read one such justification of secession and war in 1861. With the abolition of slavery becoming the law of the land in 1865, it became harder and harder for many Southerners to justify the purpose of the war and the deaths of nearly 300,000 of their sons, brothers, fathers, and husbands.
Thus, many Southerners set to work to rewrite the narrative of the war. Former Confederate general and one-time commander of the United Confederate Veterans claimed, “If we cannot justify the South in the act of Secession, we will go down in History [sic] solely as a brave, impulsive but rash people who attempted in an illegal manner to overthrow the Union for our Country.” Thus, from the ashes of war, the myth of the “Lost Cause” was born.”
SOURCE :
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/lost-cause-definition-and-origins
“Some in the North, especially Union veterans and African Americans, were angered by glorifying the Confederate cause and slavery. However, general public opinion had shifted towards reconciliation with the defeated South, especially after they became disillusioned with Reconstruction. It was telling when two ex-Confederates were pallbearers at Ulysses S. Grant’s funeral. Thus, many Northerners accepted the Lost Cause narrative as a way to mend the wounds of the war and to move the country forward into the twentieth century.”
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*How’s the HELL is it working out now after ALL : The Coddling ??!!??
The Compromise of those actual enslaved the continued Legal Slavery, Sharecropping, Jim Crow Laws, Block Busting, Redline Districts, Ghettoes, Illegal Medical Experiments, Drugs Flooded Purposely by The U.S. Government, Underfunding Education, Mass Incarnation, Highways Built Through Neighborhoods, Slave Ordinance Laws, Destruction of Entire Communities of Self-Sufficient African Americans, The KKK, The Foundation of Policing via Slave Catchers/Slave patrols called patrollers, patterrollers, pattyrollers or paddy roller ✔️
White Racist Domestic On-Going Terrorism ✔️
Gaslighting ✔️
*** Disclaimer : This a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo. ***
“I will not apologize for telling the FACTS, in a world that worship the lies”.
The Lost Cause: Definition and Origins
October 30, 2020 • Updated March 25, 2021
“As the Civil War drew to a close in 1865, defeated Southerners looked around at the death and destruction that the war had inflicted on their homes, businesses, towns, and families. “The South was not only…conquered, it was utterly destroyed…More than half [of] the farm machinery was ruined, and…Southern wealth decreased by 60 percent,” states historian James M. McPherson. The war initiated over the issue of the preservation of slavery, as pronounced in the seceding states’ articles of secession and in the Confederacy’s constitution, was the cause of this devastation. “The prohibition of slavery in the Territories is the cardinal principle of this organization.,” read one such justification of secession and war in 1861. With the abolition of slavery becoming the law of the land in 1865, it became harder and harder for many Southerners to justify the purpose of the war and the deaths of nearly 300,000 of their sons, brothers, fathers, and husbands.
Thus, many Southerners set to work to rewrite the narrative of the war. Former Confederate general and one-time commander of the United Confederate Veterans claimed, “If we cannot justify the South in the act of Secession, we will go down in History [sic] solely as a brave, impulsive but rash people who attempted in an illegal manner to overthrow the Union for our Country.” Thus, from the ashes of war, the myth of the “Lost Cause” was born.”
SOURCE :
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/lost-cause-definition-and-origins
“Some in the North, especially Union veterans and African Americans, were angered by glorifying the Confederate cause and slavery. However, general public opinion had shifted towards reconciliation with the defeated South, especially after they became disillusioned with Reconstruction. It was telling when two ex-Confederates were pallbearers at Ulysses S. Grant’s funeral. Thus, many Northerners accepted the Lost Cause narrative as a way to mend the wounds of the war and to move the country forward into the twentieth century.”
————————————————————-
*How’s the HELL is it working out now after ALL : The Coddling ??!!??
The Compromise of those actual enslaved the continued Legal Slavery, Sharecropping, Jim Crow Laws, Block Busting, Redline Districts, Ghettoes, Illegal Medical Experiments, Drugs Flooded Purposely by The U.S. Government, Underfunding Education, Mass Incarnation, Highways Built Through Neighborhoods, Slave Ordinance Laws, Destruction of Entire Communities of Self-Sufficient African Americans, The KKK, The Foundation of Policing via Slave Catchers/Slave patrols called patrollers, patterrollers, pattyrollers or paddy roller ✔️
White Racist Domestic On-Going Terrorism ✔️
Gaslighting ✔️
*** Disclaimer : This a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo. ***
“I will not apologize for telling the FACTS, in a world that worship the lies”.
The Lost Cause: Definition and Origins
As the Civil War drew to a close in 1865, Southerners looked around at the death and destruction that the war had inflicted on their homes, businesses, towns...
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Then it continued LTC David Brown
Scientific racism (sometimes race realism, human biodiversity, race biology or racial biology[1]) is the pseudoscientific belief that empirical evidence exists to support or justify racism (racial discrimination), racial inferiority, or racial superiority;[2][3][4] alternatively, it is the practice of classifying[5] individuals of different phenotypes or genotype into discrete races. Historically it received credence in the scientific community, but is no longer considered scientific.[3][4]
Back in the late 1700s, German philosopher Christoph Meiners believed in the psudeo-scientific theory of scientific racism. Meiners thought that people from the Caucasus region had the “whitest, most blooming, and most delicate skin” and viewed non-Caucasians as inferior and “animal-like.”
In the British colonies in North America and the Caribbean, the designation English or Christian was initially used in contrast to Native Americans or Africans. Early appearances of white race or white people in the Oxford English Dictionary begin in the seventeenth century.[15] Historian Winthrop Jordan reports that, "throughout the [thirteen] colonies the terms Christian, free, English, and white were … employed indiscriminately" in the seventeenth century as proxies for one another.[34] In 1680, Morgan Godwyn "found it necessary to explain" to English readers that "in Barbados, 'white' was 'the general name for Europeans.'"[35] Several historians report a shift towards greater use of white as a legal category alongside a hardening of restrictions on free or Christian blacks.[36] White remained a more familiar term in the American colonies than in Britain well into the 1700s, according to historian Theodore Allen.[35]
SOURCE :
https://www.britannica.com/topic/race-human/Scientific-classifications-of-race
WINTER 2005
Racial classification in America
AUTHOR Kenneth Prewitt
SOURCE :
https://www.amacad.org/publication/racial-classification-america
*** Disclaimer : This a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo. ***
“I will not apologize for telling the FACTS, in a world that worship the lies”.
Scientific racism (sometimes race realism, human biodiversity, race biology or racial biology[1]) is the pseudoscientific belief that empirical evidence exists to support or justify racism (racial discrimination), racial inferiority, or racial superiority;[2][3][4] alternatively, it is the practice of classifying[5] individuals of different phenotypes or genotype into discrete races. Historically it received credence in the scientific community, but is no longer considered scientific.[3][4]
Back in the late 1700s, German philosopher Christoph Meiners believed in the psudeo-scientific theory of scientific racism. Meiners thought that people from the Caucasus region had the “whitest, most blooming, and most delicate skin” and viewed non-Caucasians as inferior and “animal-like.”
In the British colonies in North America and the Caribbean, the designation English or Christian was initially used in contrast to Native Americans or Africans. Early appearances of white race or white people in the Oxford English Dictionary begin in the seventeenth century.[15] Historian Winthrop Jordan reports that, "throughout the [thirteen] colonies the terms Christian, free, English, and white were … employed indiscriminately" in the seventeenth century as proxies for one another.[34] In 1680, Morgan Godwyn "found it necessary to explain" to English readers that "in Barbados, 'white' was 'the general name for Europeans.'"[35] Several historians report a shift towards greater use of white as a legal category alongside a hardening of restrictions on free or Christian blacks.[36] White remained a more familiar term in the American colonies than in Britain well into the 1700s, according to historian Theodore Allen.[35]
SOURCE :
https://www.britannica.com/topic/race-human/Scientific-classifications-of-race
WINTER 2005
Racial classification in America
AUTHOR Kenneth Prewitt
SOURCE :
https://www.amacad.org/publication/racial-classification-america
*** Disclaimer : This a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo. ***
“I will not apologize for telling the FACTS, in a world that worship the lies”.
race - Scientific classifications of race
race - race - Scientific classifications of race: In publications issued from 1735 to 1759, Linnaeus classified all the then-known animal forms. He included humans with the primates and established the use of both genus and species terms for identification of all animals. For the human species, he introduced the still-current scientific name Homo sapiens. He listed four major subdivisions of this species, H. americanus, H. africanus, H....
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LTC David Brown - https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/21/africa/mauritania-slavery-biram-dah-abeid/index.html the only way slavery works is to dehumanize people.
The abolitionist fighting to free Mauritania's slaves | CNN
He's the grandson of a slave and he's founded a mass anti-slavery movement, been jailed three times, and run for president of his home nation, Mauritania.
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LTC David Brown
WHITE PEOPLE FACING RACE :
“Uncovering the Myths That Keep Racism in Place”
SOURCE :
https://www.whitworth.edu/cms/media/whitworth/documents/administration/diversity-equity--inclusion/peggy-mcintosh-white-people-facing-race.pdf
Whiteness
“At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, we believe that any productive conversation on race must start with honesty, respect for others, and an openness to ideas and information that provide new perspectives.
We hope that this portal will be an ever-evolving place that will continue to grow, develop, and ensure that we listen to one another in a spirit of civility and common cause.
Whiteness and white racialized identity refer to the way that white people, their customs, culture, and beliefs operate as the standard by which all other groups of are compared. Whiteness is also at the core of understanding race in America. Whiteness and the normalization of white racial identity throughout America's history have created a culture where nonwhite persons are seen as inferior or abnormal.
This white-dominant culture also operates as a social mechanism that grants advantages to white people, since they can navigate society both by feeling normal and being viewed as normal. Persons who identify as white rarely have to think about their racial identity because they live within a culture where whiteness has been normalized.
Thinking about race is very different for nonwhite persons living in America.
People of color must always consider their racial identity, whatever the situation, due to the systemic and interpersonal racism that still exists.”
SOURCE :
https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/whiteness
The shame of American white culture
* By Larry Beck Apr 23, 2021
“White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this … the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
https://dentonrc.com/opinion/the-shame-of-american-white-culture/article_47c5c2d3-9bf5-556e-b562-d651c077a5c3.html
*** Disclaimer : This a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo. ***
“I will not apologize for telling the FACTS, in a world that worship the lies”.
WHITE PEOPLE FACING RACE :
“Uncovering the Myths That Keep Racism in Place”
SOURCE :
https://www.whitworth.edu/cms/media/whitworth/documents/administration/diversity-equity--inclusion/peggy-mcintosh-white-people-facing-race.pdf
Whiteness
“At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, we believe that any productive conversation on race must start with honesty, respect for others, and an openness to ideas and information that provide new perspectives.
We hope that this portal will be an ever-evolving place that will continue to grow, develop, and ensure that we listen to one another in a spirit of civility and common cause.
Whiteness and white racialized identity refer to the way that white people, their customs, culture, and beliefs operate as the standard by which all other groups of are compared. Whiteness is also at the core of understanding race in America. Whiteness and the normalization of white racial identity throughout America's history have created a culture where nonwhite persons are seen as inferior or abnormal.
This white-dominant culture also operates as a social mechanism that grants advantages to white people, since they can navigate society both by feeling normal and being viewed as normal. Persons who identify as white rarely have to think about their racial identity because they live within a culture where whiteness has been normalized.
Thinking about race is very different for nonwhite persons living in America.
People of color must always consider their racial identity, whatever the situation, due to the systemic and interpersonal racism that still exists.”
SOURCE :
https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/whiteness
The shame of American white culture
* By Larry Beck Apr 23, 2021
“White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this … the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
https://dentonrc.com/opinion/the-shame-of-american-white-culture/article_47c5c2d3-9bf5-556e-b562-d651c077a5c3.html
*** Disclaimer : This a repost from myself, because people are tooooo comfortable with the status quo. ***
“I will not apologize for telling the FACTS, in a world that worship the lies”.
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