When we hear and read the language that this Political Party uses leaves nothing left other than to form the conclusion that they believe in a Privilege White Society and A Superior Society with others being Sub-Human or Animals whom lives are concluded as Not Important and don't care mentality, just don't blame me even if that evil shoe fits my feet.
In my right and just mind, I have to agree with them in regards to pointing the blame, because we are all at fault. If you ask yourself as I did? Why? The answer is simply What am I doing to restore peace and equality to all people? What are my actions in getting rid and destroying Racial Hatred and inequality and adding inclusiveness for all people?
When we as a People who speak of justice we must take a look at how all of this started in the first place and this is the beginning of my contribution today because I know when this Cancer was installed in this country. It was after the Bacon Rebellion during the Colonial Period when laws were written in the 1660s by a group of all White Men, here is the truth of this law. The first laws criminalizing marriage and sex between whites and non-whites were enacted in the colonial era in the English colonies of Virginia and Maryland, which depended economically on unpaid labor such as slavery.
At first, in the 1660s, the first laws in Virginia and Maryland regulating marriage between whites and blacks only pertained to the marriages of whites with black (and mulatto) slaves and indentured servants. In 1664, Maryland enacted a law which criminalized such marriages—the 1681 marriage of Irish-born Nell Butler to an African slave was an early example of the application of this law. Virginia(1691) was the first English colony in North America to pass a law forbidding free blacks and whites to intermarry, followed by Maryland in 1692. This was the first time in American history that a law was invented that restricted access to marriage partners solely on the basis of "race", not class or condition of servitude.[7] Later these laws also spread to colonies in the Thirteen Colonies with fewer slaves and free blacks, such as Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Moreover, after the independence of the United States had been established, similar laws were enacted in territories and states which outlawed slavery.
A sizable number of the early indentured servants in the British American colonies were brought over from the Indian subcontinent by the British East India Company.[8] Anti-miscegenation laws discouraging interracial marriage between white Americans and non-whites affected South Asian immigrants as early as the 17th century.[citation needed] For example, a Eurasian daughter born to an Indian father and Irish mother in Maryland in 1680 was classified as a "mulatto" and sold into slavery.[8] Anti-miscegenation laws there continued into the early 20th century. For example, the Bengali revolutionary Tarak Nath Das's white American wife, Mary K. Das, was stripped of her American citizenship for her marriage to an "alien ineligible for citizenship."[8] In 1918, there was considerable controversy in Arizonawhen an Indian farmer B. K. Singh married the sixteen-year-old daughter of one of his white tenants.
This is the
Anti-miscegenation laws. This was the beginning of injustice and White-Men being the creator of this injustice and benefiting from it today.
COLONIAL LAWS (DIVIDE AND CONQUER) – EXAMPLE OF LAWS
Because today’s racial divisions run so deep in the United States, we tend to think of them as
normal. However, there is a cause for everything, and it is not always as simple as you might
think.
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Annotations
1. Predict the measures that were taken to keep Indians and blacks from uniting,
or that may have even made them feel hostile toward one another.
1. As one white Carolinian put it, we need a policy “to make Indians & Negros check upon
each other lest by their vastly superior numbers we should be crushed by one or the
other.” Laws were passed to prohibit free blacks from traveling in Indian country.
Treaties with Indian tribes required the return of fugitive slaves.
2. A 1683 New York law made it a crime for “Negro or Indian slaves” to meet anywhere
together in groups of four or more or to be armed “with guns, Swords, Clubs, Staves, or
Any Other kind of weapon.”
3. A 1690 Connecticut law forbade Indians and blacks from walking beyond the town
limits without a pass. Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts all had a 9 p.m.
curfew for blacks and Indians.
4. A 1773 New York law was passed “to prevent Negro and Indian slaves from appearing
in the streets after eight at night without a lantern with a lighted candle in it.”
5. Whites often hired local Indians to hunt down escaped African slaves. In 1676,
Maryland offered rewards to Indians for capturing black slave runaways. In 1740, South
Carolina offered Indians £100 for each slave runaway captured alive and £50 for “every
scalp of a grown negro slave.”
6. In 1729, South Carolina hired Catawba Indians to recapture or kill enslaved blacks who
had rebelled in Stono, S.C.
7. In 1725, South Carolina outlawed bringing any black slaves to the frontier. As a British
colonel said, “The slaves ... talk good English as well as the Cherokee language and ... too
often tell falsities to the Indians which they are apt to believe.”
8. A large number of Indians were sold as slaves to the West Indies. In a single year, over
10,000 Indians slaves were shipped in chains to the West Indies from the port of
Charleston, S.C.
9. The British sent black troops to fight the Natchez Indians in the Yemassee War of 1715.
In New Orleans, the governor sent armed blacks to massacre Chouchas Indians.
10. The British encouraged the so-called Five Civilized Tribes—the Cherokee, Creek,
Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole—to enslave Africans, as the whites were doing.
Ultimately, slaves made up between 10 and 20 percent of all five groups but the
Seminoles. The Cherokee adopted a “slave code” to prevent blacks from learning to read
and write and provided that if a slave ran off, other tribe members were obligated to catch
the runaway. Slavery contributed to inequality within each Indian nation. Only a relatively
small elite of 12 percent of the Cherokees owned slaves.
2. Predict laws or policies adopted to discourage white indentured servants and
black slaves from running away together.
1. A 1661 Virginia law provided that “in case any English servant shall run away in the company of any Negroes” he would have to suffer extra years of servitude to the master
of the escaped slave.
Annotations
3a. Predict how poor whites and white indentured servants were taught to believe
that they were superior to and didn’t have anything in common with blacks.
1. All whites were encouraged to believe that they were superior to blacks and laws were
passed that underscored their superiority. For example, a 1723 Maryland law provided
for cutting off the ears of any black person who struck a white person.
2. A Virginia colonial law sentenced whites to 25 lashes for stealing a pig but increased it
to 39 lashes if the person were black or Indian.
3. Poor whites were enlisted to hunt down runaway slaves and were put on slave patrols.
4. A 1705 Virginia law required that when a white servant’s period of indenture was over,
a master must provide men with 10 bushels of corn, 30 shillings, and a gun; and women
with 15 bushels of corn and 40 shillings. The freed servants were also to be given 50 acres
of land.
5. After Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676, amnesty was given to whites but not to blacks.
6. White servants were given numerous advantages not given to black slaves, including
the right to testify against their masters in court if they were not treated properly.
3b. Predict how blacks and whites were kept separate so that whites would not
even imagine getting together with blacks.
1. A 1691 Virginia law provided that “any white man or woman being free who shall
intermarry with a negro, mulato, or Indian man or woman bond or free” shall be banished.
2. Virginia, Massachusetts, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, and Georgia
all passed laws prohibiting interracial marriage.
3. In southern colonies, according to historian Joseph P. Cullen, if a white female
indentured servant had a child by a black man she would be punished by public whipping
and her period of indenture would be doubled.
4. Predict the measures adopted to ensure that on every plantation there were
enough white overseers in relation to black slaves. How might white owners have
found more white indentured servants to help supervise blacks?
1. In 1698, South Carolina passed a “deficiency law” that required every plantation owner
to have at least one white servant for every six male adult black slaves.
2. As Howard Zinn points out, servants were acquired from Great Britain, and later from
Ireland and Germany, by “lures, promises, ... lies, by kidnapping ...” Kidnappers would sell
servants to the highest bidder in the American colonies.
3. In 1717, the British parliament made transportation to the American colonies a legal
punishment for committing certain crimes. Tens of thousands of convicts were sent to
Maryland, Virginia, and other colonies.
1790 |
The Naturalization Act of 1790, the country's first naturalization statute, says that unindentured white males must live in the U.S. for two years before becoming citizens.
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1795 |
The Naturalization Act of 1790 is amended and extends the residency requirement to five years.
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1798 |
With xenophobia on the rise, the residency requirement in the Naturalization Act of 1790 is lengthened again, to 14 years.
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1802 |
The residency requirement for citizenship is reduced to five years.
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1819 |
The Steerage Act requires that ship captains must submit manifests with information about immigrants onboard to the Collector of Customs, the secretary of state, and Congress.
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1843 |
The American Republican party is formed in New York (it later becomes known as the Native American party) by citizens opposed to the increased number of immigrants in the U.S. The nativists, or members of the Know-Nothing Movement, seek to permit only native-born Americans to run for office and try to raise the residency requirement to 25 years.
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1868 |
Congress passed the Expatriation Act of 1868 that said: "the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people." The act was intended to protect the rights of naturalized immigrants whose native countries did not recognize expatriation claims..
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1870 |
The Naturalization Act of 1870 allows "aliens of African nativity" and "persons of African descent" to become U.S. citizens..
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1875 |
The Page Act becomes law. It's the country's first exclusionary act, banning criminals, prostitutes, and Chinese contract laborers from entering the country.
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1882 |
Congress passes the Immigration Act. The law imposes a $.50 tax on new arrivals and bans "convicts (except those convicted of political offenses), lunatics, idiots and persons likely to become public charges" from entering the U.S.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 bans "skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining" from entering the country for ten years and denies Chinese immigrants the path to citizenship. Thousands of Chinese immigrants had worked on the construction of the Trans-Continental Railroad, and these workers were left unemployed when the project was
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1888 |
Congress passes the Scott Act, which amends the Chinese Exclusion Act. It bans Chinese workers from re-entering the U.S. after they left.
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1891 |
Immigration Act of 1891 creates the Bureau of Immigration, which falls under the Treasury Department. The act also calls for the deportation of people who entered the country illegally and denies entry for polygamists, the mentally ill, and those with contagious
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1892 |
The Geary Act strengthens the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 by requiring Chinese laborers to carry a resident permit at all times. Failure to do so could result in deportation or a sentence to hard labor. It also extends for another 10 years the ban on Chinese becoming citizens.
Ellis Island opens. It served as the primary immigration station of the U.S. between 1892 and 1954, processing some 12 million immigrants. By some estimates, 40% of all Americans have a relative who passed through Ellis Island.
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1903 |
Congress passes the Anarchist Exclusion Act, which denies anarchists, other political extremists, beggars, and epileptics entry into the U.S. It's the first time individuals are banned from the U.S. based on political beliefs.
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1906 |
The Naturalization Act of 1906 creates the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization and places it under the jurisdiction of the Commerce Department. The act also requires immigrants to learn English before they can become citizens.
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1907 |
The Immigration Act of 1907 broadens the categories of people banned from immigrating to the U.S. The list excludes “imbeciles,“ “feeble-minded“ people, those with physical or mental disabilities that prevent them from working, tuberculosis victims, children who enter the U.S. without parents, and those who committed crimes of “moral turpitude.“
The “Gentleman’s Agreement“ between the U.S. and Japan ends the immigration of Japanese workers.
Congress passes the Expatriation Act of 1907 that says women must adopt the citizenship of their husbands. Therefore, women who marry foreigners lose their U.S. citizenship unless their husbands become citizens.
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1917 |
Immigration Act of 1917, also called Asiatic Barred Zone Act, further restricted immigration, particularly of people from a large swath of Asia and the Pacific Islands. The act also bars homosexuals, “idiots,“ “feeble-minded persons,“ "criminals," “insane persons,“ alcoholics, and other categories. In addition, the act sets a literacy standard for immigrants age 16 and older. They must be able to read a 40-word selection in their native language.
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1921 |
The Emergency Quota Law of 1921 limits the number of immigrants entering the U.S. each year to 350,000 and implements a nationality quota. Immigration from any country is capped at 3% of the population of that nationality based on the 1910 census. The law reduces immigration from eastern and southern Europe while favoring immigrants from Northern Europe.
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1922 |
Congress passes the Married Women's Act of 1922, also known as the "Cable Act." It repeals the provision of the Expatriation Act of 1907 that revoked the citizenship of women who married foreigners.
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1924 |
The National Origins Act reduces the number of immigrants entering the U.S. each year to 165,000 and the nationality quota set forth in the Quota Law of 1921 is cut to 2% of the population of that nationality based on the 1890 census. The quota system did not apply to immigrants from the western hemisphere.
The U.S. Border Patrol is created.
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1929 |
The National Origins Act once again reduces the annual cap on the number of immigrants allowed to enter the U.S., this time to 150,000. The 2% quota is linked to 1920 census data, thereby further limiting the number of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe.
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1940 |
The Alien
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1942 |
Because so many American men are fighting in World War II, the U.S. faced a shortage of farmworkers and begins hiring Mexican workers in what was known as the bracero program. About 5 million Mexican workers participate in the program.
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1943 |
The Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act allows Chinese workers to immigrate to the U.S., but with an annual quota of 105.
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1946 |
The Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act is broadened to cover Filipinos and Indians, essentially repealing the Immigration Act of
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1948 |
The Displaced Persons Act allows up to 200,000 refugees displaced by World War II to enter the U.S.
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1950 |
Internal Security Act allows the deportation of any immigrants who were ever members of the Communist Party.
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1952 |
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (the McCarran-Walter Act) consolidates earlier immigration legislation into one law and eliminates race as a basis of exclusion. However, race continues to be a factor because the quota system remains in place, except for immigrants from the western hemisphere. Immigration from any country is capped at 1/6th of 1% of the population of that nationality based on the 1920 census.
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1965 |
The Immigration Act of 1965 gets rid of the nationality quotas, but limits annual immigration from the eastern hemisphere to 170,000, with a limit of 20,000 immigrants per country, and for the first time caps annual immigration from the western hemisphere at 120,000, without the country limit. In addition, a preference system is established for family members of U.S. citizens.
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1966 |
Cuban Adjustment Act allows Cubans to apply for permanent resident status after residing in the U.S. for two years.
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1975 |
At the end of the Vietnam War, the U.S. passes the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975 that resettles about 200,000 Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees in the U.S. and gives them a special parole status. The program was extended to Laotians in 1976.
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1978 |
The immigration caps outlined in the 1965 Immigration Act are replaced with an overall annual limit of 290,000.
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1980 |
The Refugee Act defines refugees as a person who flees his or her country “on account of race, religion, nationality, or political opinion.“ Refugees are considered a different category than immigrants. The president and Congress are granted the authority to establish an annual ceiling on the number of refugees allowed into the U.S. The act also lowers the annual limit of immigrants to 270,000, from 290,000.
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1986 |
The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) allows immigrants who had entered the U.S. before Jan. 1, 1982, to apply for legal status but required them to pay fines, fees, and back taxes. It also gives the same rights to immigrants who worked in agricultural jobs for 90 days before May 1982. About 3 million immigrants gained legal status through the law. The act also requires employers to verify the work status of all new hires and fine those who hire undocumented workers.
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1990 |
The Immigration Act of 1990 sets an annual ceiling of 700,000 immigrants for three years, and 675,000 thereafter.
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1996 |
The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act broadens the definition of “aggravated felony“ and increases the number of crimes classified as such so immigrants could be deported for a wider range of crimes. The law is applied retroactively. The act also increased the number of Border Patrol agents and established an “expedited removal“ procedure to deport immigrants without a formal hearing.
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act sharply cut legal permanent residents’ eligibility for many public-assistance benefits, including food stamps, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and Medicaid.
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2005 |
The REAL ID Act of 2005 requires states to verify a person’s immigration status or citizenship before issuing licenses, expands restrictions on refugees requesting asylum, and limits the habeas corpus rights of immigrants.
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2006 |
The REAL ID Act of 2005 requires states to verify a person’s immigration status or citizenship before issuing licenses, expands restrictions on refugees requesting asylum, and limits the habeas corpus rights of immigrants.
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2014 |
On Nov. 20, 2014, President Barack Obama announced he was taking executive action to delay the deportation of some 5 million illegal immigrants. Under the new policy people who are parents of U.S. citizens or legal residents will receive deportation deferrals and authorization to work legally if they have been in the U.S. for more than five years and pass background checks. Obama's action also amended the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allows people under age 31 who were brought to the U.S. as children to apply for two-year deportation deferrals and work permits. Obama's policy change lifted the age ceiling and added a year to the deferral period. Twenty-six states challenged the executive order, and in February 2015 a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction, temporarily blocking the provisions of the executive order while the states pursued a lawsuit to permanently shut down the program.
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2017 |
In an ongoing legal battle, the White House attempted to impose iterative restrictions on immigration from several Muslim-majority countries in conflicted regions. Successful legal challenges from different states and cities saw a significant decrease in the scope of the immigration orders, though the administration would eventually implement an executive order that withstood constitutional scrutiny. Opponents of the measure claimed that it was motivated by Islamophobia, while proponents argued it was valuable to national security.
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2018 |
Since his election, President Donald J. Trump made several efforts to fulfill his campaign promise of an extensive border wall. This costly security measure drew a wide range of criticisms and sparked contentious debates surrounding the nature of U.S. border protections. During this time the White House declared its intentions of phasing out the DACA program passed by President Obama. Republicans and Democrats both were called on to pass a replacement program by a proposed deadline of March 5. However, party members were unable to reach a consensus, and many beneficiaries of DACA were put into legal/political limbo.
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This is how injustice started and this bears the responsibilities of all people who believe in righteousness to take a stand against this way of thinking and all of its practices. White Men created this evil on all People of Color around the world under the name of Colonialism. Since Blacks were the first humans on earth and done these same exact things many White People would be speaking out about these injustices just as the People of Color has. Jay W. Sumlin (The Black History Channel).
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