It Is, What It Is
Traditional lies are well written to shore up political power and attract the ignorant to support whatever the established lie is going to be. It is perpetuated with force so that any discussion that moves away from the lies is seen as an attempt to deny the accepted norms of white supremacy. This untouchable veil of lies is not to be questioned for it would undermine white supremacy everywhere. Over the years, slave owners have been characterized as “noble” men. One Alamo book was even titled “Blood of Noble Men.” However, there was nothing noble about them. One definition of “noble” is “having or showing fine personal qualities or high moral principles and ideals.”
Pro-slavery men were nothing like the above definition. Another definition says “noble” means, “belonging to a hereditary class with high social or political status; aristocratic.” This might be true since their high status was gained by enslaving human beings. To be clear, slave owners were despicable men who were often sadistic killers. Anglo immigrants, who came to Texas in the 1800s, aspired to become the “gentlemen” of the slave owning class. There was nothing noble, moral, or descent about these bigots even in those days. Many opposed human bondage even then, and so one cannot make the argument I am looking at slavery with modern eyes. Nevertheless, they will try this slick comment to justify the horrible ancestors that are in their past.
White supremacy has always found a way to stick around. Even though the South lost the Civil War, these losers were allowed to write their own history because the North abandoned the cause of human rights for Blacks. The slave owners were allowed to convert slavery to a new form that could only be described as “slavery by another name.” They did this with the passage of vagrancy laws, that simply made it illegal not to have a job or for starving slaves to steal a pig. They employed false accusations to create a racist legal system. They did that all the way up until the 1950s, and beyond, by kidnapping blacks to work on farms and in coal mines, simply by using the legal system. Even in the 1960s, the false charge of vagrancy was used to illegally arrest Blacks.
This racist ideology has been around since the earliest days of European penetration of the Americas. America would become an Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, White nation with these ideas boiled into the minds of whites on Sunday, as preached from pulpits long before the Civil War. Today, many whites refuse to recognize the brutality of white supremacy tied to slavery and often try to distance themselves from it by coming up with arguments that have little validity, or worse, deny the issue.
If one is a so-called “White,” they generally do not have to worry about being racially profiled, murdered by police, and unjustly arrested. Many of these police officers, who grew up in small bigoted towns, where being White was a ticket to peace and prosperity, are as blind as bats when it comes to understanding how they were brainwashed into thinking they are superior. As if their reality is the only reality, some “White” people have been permitted to use their life experiences as a benchmark for everyone else. We know racism is a real problem and our fight against it will never end. White history is what is generally taught in schools across America, and they can get away with this by not calling it “White History,” but it is, what it is.
