The United States, which struggled with the Corona epidemic, is now shaken by racism and police violence. In Minnesota, when the police detained a black American, he lost his life and confused the country. Demonstrators protesting the incident all over the country protested the police, saying “I can’t breathe”, referring to Floyd’s last words.
The US is now facing racism debates in the country. Echoes of a black citizen (George Floyd – 46) die as a result of police violence continue on Monday in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In images recorded on a cell phone by a passerby, it was heard that George Floyd, who was placed in the curb with his hands cuffed from behind, was taken into custody while he was detained.
RACISM is one of the morpid mortars that are settled in the nature of Western society. It is one of the main factors that determine the formation and course of its history.
According to racist Europeans, noble is born, noble is born. In other words, Europe is not born, Europe is born. According to them, Europeans are the most superior, white and pure race of humanity. More precisely are Anglo – Saxons and Germanic.
In this context, the opinions advocated by the British politician-diplomat Lord E. Baring Cromer (1841-1917) point to this precisely: the British and the Germans are more European and superior than the French of other nations, Latinos and semi-Asian Russians.
Let us take a brief walk through the reflections of these perverted diseased discourses in social life, by offering him several racism cases from the corrupt history of the civilized West:
In 1603, Hugh Davis was whipped with sexual intercourse with a nigga in Virginia, accusing him of polluting his body and leaving himself ashamed in the eyes of God and then in the eyes of Christians.
In 1662, the Virginia Colony enacted a new law to decide that the penalty for adultery should be doubled if committed with blacks.
In 1664, the State of Maryland enacted a law prohibiting whites and especially white women from marrying blacks. If a white woman marries a black man, she would have accepted slavery and her children would be considered slaves.
In 1691, the Virginia Colony passed another law prohibiting marriage among all races. Accordingly, if any white woman or man marries a nigga, a hybrid or Native American, he would be driven out of the colony to never return.
A group of Americans who refuse racism in t-shirts with the slogan ‘I am a man’ in their breasts.
A blood-freezing sight from America in 1830: A black slave with an iron cage closed to his head so that he does not eat from the product while working.
In 1890-1905 Belgium colonized the Congo in Africa, killing 10 million locals. He brutally cut the hands and feet of those who did not agree to be slaves.
Poor people that Belgium enslaved in Congo and chained around their necks like an animal
On December 26 of 1908, US Jack Johnson defeated Canadian Tommy Burns and became the world’s first black heavyweight boxing champion. However, racist whites could not digest this victory and ignored it.
Jack Johnson of the USA, the world’s first black heavyweight boxing champion
In 1948, 54-year-old George W. McLaurin was accepted to the University of Oklahoma in the USA as the first African American student. However, he was subjected to discrimination and was forced to sit separate from the white students while following the lessons.
George McLaurin was discriminated against despite being the first African American student to Oklahoma University.
In 1954, Dorothy Counts made history as the first U.S. black student admitted to the high school of whites. However, he was only able to withstand the humiliation of the whites for 4 days and was obliged to get his enrollment from the school.
Dorothy Counts, the first black student admitted to high school in the US in 1954 (left), could not stand humiliations any longer
On November 14 of 1960, a brave African American girl named Ruby Bridges entered the school where whites went to study. Reacting to that, white mothers and fathers took their own children out. So much so that a woman put a black doll in a wooden coffin and protested her. All teachers, except Barbara Henry, refused to teach a black child.
When Ruby Bridges tried to enter the school where the whites go with security measures, he had a great reaction.
With his work titled Race Matters (Race Matters) in 1994, he was a black academician who entered the best-selling list in America. Cornel West describes an interesting event that happened in his book as follows:
Cornel West’s book
On one of the days I taught at William College, my car was stopped by the police. I was accused of carrying cocaine. I told the police that I was a professor at Princeton University.
The response I received was as follows:
“Yes yes, I am also a flying nun; Let’s go, nigga! ”
Resources:
1. Samir Amin, Eurocentrism, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1989, p. 97.
2. George M. Fredrickson, White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History, Oxford University Press, 1982, p.100, 102.
3. Cornel West, Race Matters, Vintage Boxing, 1994.
4. Bülent Özdemir, History is Witness, Istanbul, 2014, pp. 175-176.
5.www.zaferdergisi.com.tr
M.Ali TOPÇU
Mayıs 2020
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