Frank Joyce
Frank Joyce
1492, 1513, 1619, 2019
It’s all connected: On the Origins of the So-called United States of America
Many are marking 2019 as the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first captured Africans in Jamestown. So, even more than usual, we will hear chattel slavery referred to as the nation’s original sin.
It isn’t.
That framing is itself a window into the white way of thinking. It’s meant to perpetuate the mythologies of Christianity That doctrine incorporates the belief that humans are flawed, weak and often badly behaved. And, since that’s God given, it will always be true.
Aug 12, 2019 Read the whole text...
Frank Joyce
A Right Wing Man Named Cotton
from the Land of Cotton Tells the Truth About Racialized Capitalism
As the story goes, Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the bestselling and game changing Uncle Tom’s Cabin. “So,” he said, “you’re the little lady who started all the trouble.”
Historian Gerald Horne started some trouble too. His book, The Counter Revolution of 1776, published in 2014, brought into the light of day the long suppressed truth about the so called revolution. More recently, the 1619 Project featured in The New York Times expanded awareness of how much the commitment to enslavement drove the violent secession from British colonial rule.
Sep 15, 2020 Read the whole text...