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This is America: a place where Greed, Power, racism, and control were founded. We are living in a time where we are seeing just a glimpse of what our ancestors went through. Let’s take it back to the origin of racism—the one thing created that they refuse to take credit for. On October 12, 1492, the Indigenous people of America were ambushed by European immigrants who arrived by boat (go figure). They stole land that belonged, and still belongs, to the Indigenous people. These colonizers attacked, murdered, and raped the native people, seizing their land. They established a human slave trade—an illegal act of violence regardless of the laws they enacted. Millions of people were violently kidnapped from regions across West, Central, and Southeast Africa. While forced labor and kidnapping occurred in other parts of the world—including European and Mediterranean coastal towns in Italy, Portugal, Spain, Britain, France, Ireland, and Iceland—the vast majority of those kidnapped and trafficked across oceans for plantation slavery came from Africa.

These innocent people were chained and forced onto ships. Between November 29 and December 1, 1781, European colonizers murdered 132 people on board by throwing men, women, and children into the ocean simply to collect insurance money. The rest were forced into unpaid labor without receiving their promised 40 acres and a mule. This is only a small fraction of what occurred. Then came the audacity to rewrite history and brainwash generations into believing Christopher Columbus wasn’t a rapist and murderer. Instead, we were taught he discovered America. That is diabolical. Exactly what Bible were they following here?

During slavery, Black people were only allowed to read the Bible using white gloves so their skin wouldn’t touch the pages. Why only the Bible? European colonizers introduced and enforced it as a religion.

Black people were systematically forbidden from reading or pursuing any form of education. Education is power—the sharpest weapon against oppression—and oppressors have always known this and still fear it now. Colonizers passed laws that made it illegal for enslaved people to vote. Later, when Black people finally gained the right to vote, they were hunted, terrorized, and murdered by the KKK to silence their voices. Countless Black people were lynched for trying to vote, for returning home, for walking down the street, for simply existing—for daring to exist at all, in defiance of a world built to erase them. American history IS Black history ✊🏾.

Understanding American/Black history is essential to who we are and who we become as a society. Stay tuned…