Inventing Black and White was (Tears) The Collected Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

The Horny Goat wrote:

Don wrote:
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   ... The events in Jamestown were alarming to the planter
   elite, who were deeply fearful of the multiracial alliance
   of [indentured servants] and slaves. Word of Bacon's
   Rebellion spread far and wide, and several more uprisings
   of a similar type followed. In an effort to protect their
   superior status and economic position, the planters shifted
   their strategy for maintaining dominance. They abandoned
   their heavy reliance on indentured servants in favor of the
   importation of more black slaves. ...
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Most indentured servants were only bound for a given time period. My
first North American ancestors (roughly the 1720s) were indentured for
5 years to pay off the cost of their passage from Europe. My first
North American born male ancestor went on to marry the eldest sister
of the woman who married Nelson Rockefeller's great great grandmother.
Unfortunately none of that money rubbed off on us <grin>
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His son went on to invade Canada in 1812 with the NY state militia
which causes a smile since two of his six children (including my
father) went on to marry Canadians and to settle in Canada.

The time term of a bound obligation is marginal to the USA elite's
invention of "black" and "white" as a legal precedent for today's law.
"Black" and "white" divide by design.
    Predictably, a teaching moment recently occurred. Ironically
the headline is correct in the sense of USA elites heading off
dissent directed at them.

    Workplace Raids in LA? Or a Targeted Attack on Dissent

    It was never about 'removing criminals.' It was always
    about white nationalism. Stephen Miller, the architect
    behind Trump's immigration policies, is a known white
    nationalist. Trump himself has said he believes
    immigrants are 'poisoning the blood of America.' Did
    the administration target LA - a city that opposes
    Trump - with workplace raids to provoke a reaction so
    Trump can use federal power to 'take America back?'

<https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/workplace-raids-in-la-or-a-targeted-attack-on-dissent/vi-AA1GoodD?ocid=socialshare>

Presumably, Hispanics are supposed to pass for "black" at this event.
The psyop only works when USA citizens self-identify as either "black"
or "white" based upon an idiosyncratic interpretation of ill-defined
legal labels.

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    Inventing Black and White

    ... Virginia's wealthy planters were shaken by the fact that a
    rebel militia that united white and black servants and slaves
    had destroyed the colonial capital. Legal scholar Michelle
    Alexander writes:

        The events in Jamestown were alarming to the planter
        elite, who were deeply fearful of the multiracial
        alliance of [indentured servants] and slaves. Word of
        Bacon's Rebellion spread far and wide, and several
        more uprisings of a similar type followed. In an
        effort to protect their superior status and economic
        position, the planters shifted their strategy for
        maintaining dominance. They abandoned their heavy
        reliance on indentured servants in favor of the
        importation of more black slaves.

    After Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia's lawmakers began to
    make legal distinctions between "white" and "black"
    inhabitants. By permanently enslaving Virginians of African
    descent and giving poor white indentured servants and farmers
    some new rights and status, they hoped to separate the two
    groups and make it less likely that they would unite again
    in rebellion. Historian Ira Berlin explains:

        Soon after Bacon's Rebellion they increasingly
        distinguish between people of African descent
        and people of European descent. They enact laws
        which say that people of African descent are
        hereditary slaves. And they increasingly give
        some power to independent white farmers and
        land holders ...

    Now what is interesting about this is that we normally say
    that slavery and freedom are opposite things-that they are
    diametrically opposed. But what we see here in Virginia in
    the late 17th century, around Bacon's Rebellion, is that
    freedom and slavery are created at the same moment. ...

<https://web.archive.org/web/20250330000053/https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/inventing-black-white>

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