Despite the disclaimers of a multi-racial coalition of deniers, America has been and may always be marred by an unspecified “racism” tag. It is difficult to effectively argue against assertions that this nation was infected by racial bias when Thomas Jefferson announced the colonists’ intention “to not be the slaves of Britain” and that All Men Are Created Equal in the Declaration of Independence or when W.E.B. DuBois prophetically asserted that “the problem of the twentieth-century will be the color-line.” It is important that Americans realize that its foremost social cancer is DuBois’ color-line, “racism.”
Yet, I have always found it difficult to explain the reality that although Americans have been brined in a putrid brew of economic inequality, racial bias, and institutionalized racism that they know very little about the origins of “racism” in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Not only is the average American wholly ignorant of how “racism” functions, but they also have little desire to address their intellectual feebleness regarding this matter.
Please join us tonight (August 6, 2020) at 7:30 EST /6:30 CST for a stimulating intellectual discussion regarding the roots of Race in America. We will discuss the following issues in the interactive Zoom meeting tonight.
- Were the initial Africans who arrived in the Jamestown colony under European control “slaves” or “half-free.”
- Who is John Punch and why does he matter in discussions of American racial matters?
- When did racial identity become so important in colonial life and why?
- Did the colonial system encourage the rape of Black women?
- Did enslaved Africans fight against the developing society that rested on their exploitation?
You are being cordially invited to attend and participate in tonight’s Zoom session. I will be the lead presenter for this latest session of MRCi (Manhood, Race, and Culture Interactive).
I hope to see you tonight. Trust me when I say that we have a grand time interacting and learning from each other.
Dr. James Thomas Jones III
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