There was no such thing as white people in the 1600s.
Europeans didn’t call themselves white.
They called themselves English, Irish, German, Italian.
And they hated each other.
The English despised the Irish.
Northern Italians didn’t even recognize southern Italians as equals.
Germans fought everybody.
There was no “white team.” No shared identity.
Just Europeans killing Europeans over land, religion, and power.
That’s the actual history of Europe. Then suddenly, mid-1600s in the American colonies, something changed. “White” was invented. Why? Because the colonial elite the rich landowners could count.
They looked around and realized they were outnumbered. Badly. African slaves, European indentured servants, poor peasants who had no land and no future. Together, they were a threat.
So the rich did what they’ve always done: they divided them. They created “whiteness” as a concept and gave poor Europeans just enough legal protections, small privileges, the promise that they’d never be at the bottom to make sure they’d never unite with enslaved Africans.
It worked. Poor whites started policing Black people instead of fighting the system exploiting them both. And that’s the con. The whole history of America is rich white men convincing poor white people that their enemies are Black and Brown not the system keeping them all broke.
Pete Hegseth gutted the Pentagon’s Civilian Harm Mitigation program to brag about "lethality," then bombed an elementary school on Day 1 of the Iran war, killing 123 children. Because nobody bothered to check Google Maps.
Don’t let him quietly resign. Impeach him.
Pete Hegseth (the least-qualified SecDef ever) has fired or blocked the promotions of dozens of female and black military officers. It's not because they aren't qualified. They are. Now we know it's because Hegseth is putting politics ahead of your safety. He should resign.
@PriyaReporting@SecWar@MSNOWNews The crazy part is that the DOJ is so incompetent, you can't even get justice for something that was clearly illegal... I hope the statute of limitations will allow victims to sue later on...
@Backwaters66@ImmortanZit@LRHN_Cash Whatever. You leave out a LOT of details here, but yes, Africans sold war captives and enemies to white slave traders, financed by European banks and later American ones, to traffick in human misery...