On this New Year’s Day, it’s great that Rhode Island Congressman Patricia Morgan and a Negro she knows aren’t going to sit down to eat black-eyed peas and chop greens together.
It’s even safer that she and her fellow Republicans won’t expend mental energy on the history of the New Year as a moment of terror for enslaved people in America.
Representative Morgan, as you can recall, tweeted a few days ago that she “have a black friend” – emphasis on past tense – but this unnamed Black token has recently become “hostile and nasty”, which the Rhode Island legislator concluded must be because of significant racial theory, because she herself didn’t do” anything to her, except white. “
CRT, according to Morgan, is a truly “divisive” issue[ing] us for skin color. ”
This actually happened in an era when Confederate flag-waving insurgents overtook the US Capitol building, the FBI white terrorists identified is the greatest threat to national security, members of the publicly affiliated Congress with self-proclaimed white nationalists and promote their ideologyhate crime against REMOVEmissing person grew rapidly and it was Representative Morgan who proposed an anti-CRT bill and thwarted another that would incorporate teaching REMOVElack of history in School in Rhode Island.
It’s tempting to think that Morgan is just misinformed about the CRT – an esoteric legal concept to examine systemic racism that no school in Rhode Island teaches, and which the far right has been obsessed with. photos in the past year. But in a later appearance, Morgan unintentionally admitted that her problem was not with the CRT, but with the idea that history can be taught in a way that fully acknowledges how the apartheid regime anti-blacks defined every aspect of America. the devastation caused by white American supremacy. That would be outrageous, according to Morgan. who claims it? “With CRT, there’s no buyback,” because it doesn’t focus on “the good part of our history.”
It’s really just a way of saying that she opposes a history that isn’t filled with allegories of supremacy and other prehistoric nonsense. Not to mention that she’s also not a fan of whites who – after centuries of excluding blacks from the historical record – have to share the historical focal point.
“I am really concerned that the theory of critical race — at the heart of the Black experience, which makes race the center of everything in our society — is really dangerous.” Morgan said in an interview. “And it is denting the things that bind us together as Americans.”
According to Morgan, this is what CRT competitors really fear. Perhaps because she wanted students in Rhode Island not to know that their home state’s “General Electoral Court” — that is, Morgan’s own legislative predecessors—passed a law in 1652 that ended the lifelong enslavement of blacks in two cities, and would pass another law prohibiting Native slavery in 1676, just to completely ignored That law favors racial capitalism.
Laws restricting slavery will also be passed in the state in 1774, 1784, and 1787, though that doesn’t end the barbaric system either. In fact, “almost half of Rhode IslandSlave trips occurred after the trade was outlawed,” as USA Today reported. When the American Revolution began in 1775, “Rhode Island was the greatest slave trading colonies in Great Britain and America, ”According to Leonardo Marques, author of The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas. Newport, And after that Bristol, were major ports for the transatlantic import of people trafficked from Africa to the colonies in the 18th century, and many more. Black people are slaves per capita than any other state in New England during the colonial period.
The state will eventually constitutional abolition of slavery in 1843.
While it’s now considered a moment of celebration Across America, the last days of the year were filled with pain and fear for the Negroes living under the yoke of slavery. The slaves would pay their bills when the year ended, and that meant that the people they enslaved could be rented to other slaves, or sold on the first day of the year. five. Among the enslaved Negroes, New Year’s Eve was spent worrying that they might be ripped off from family and loved ones, auctioned off to the highest bidder to clear their debts. a slave.
And so, New Year’s Day became known as “Employee Day” or — to be more precise, a more accurate name for the cruelty they experienced— “Heartbreak Day”.
“Of all the days of the year, slaves fear New Year’s Day as the worst,” declared Lewis Clarke, who fled slavery and became an outspoken abolitionist. 1842, one year before Rhode Island Racial ties are legalized. “For men come because of their debt; and if someone is going to sell slaves, that’s when they do it; and if someone is going to give away a slave, that’s when they do it; and slaves never know where they will be taken. Oh, what a heartbreaking new year in Kentucky! ”
Clarke’s narrative is an American truth, as historically relevant as the stories Morgan and many other Republicans might want us to keep focusing on this and every day. It’s a history that Morgan wants to be whitewashed until it fades from the general American memory. But what matters is these stories – telling us how we got to the present moment and why we can’t seem to get over the lingering impact of a past Morgan wants to forget – told.
There is an old Negro saying, born out of Hiring Day, that says that the New Year will shape your coming year.
“The slave has come to a place [on Hiring Day] called hiring establishments to hire their labor in the coming year,” Ms. Harrison, a free man formerly enslaved told an interviewer in 1937. “That’s where that quote comes from what you do on New Year’s Day that you will do for the rest of the year.”
That could mean Morgan and other white conservatives, who used CRT as a scammer last year, will continue to do so through 2022. But it’s all propaganda. more white supremacy. Here’s hoping in the new year there will be more of a backlash against the racist campaign to legally ban verifiable history teaching. And Morgan’s absurd efforts to suppress those truths have cost her “friends” who are essentially intolerant of her.
