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Black Holocaust →

locksandglasses:

“Black Americans don’t know about this story because the word “holocaust” disturbs the partisans of the Democratic and Republican parties. The white community is haunted by the reality of the republic’s past as a slave-state, and is anxiety ridden that some day the Black community will make demands for restitution, for the “Old Money” fortunes that were made on the backs of enslaved black people. The idea that the United States invented “ethnic cleansing” and racism, and that the first concentration camps were devised by the U.S., and that the Black people were subjected to a holocaust because of the fear they caused in the white community, who fully realized the violent implications of the enslavement of another ethnic group, all defies the patriotic jingoistic propaganda taught to school-children, that America is the land of the free. When other ethnic groups use the word “holocaust” it is socially acceptable; but when Black people discuss the Black Holocaust, they are dismissed as cry-babies, trying to dig up old issues from ancient history, that most white people believe are settled.”

(via socialuprooting)