Negative Space: racism
- America’s Drug Users
- Opium was prohibited because it was used by Orientals and cocaine because it was perceived as a Negro drug. More specifically, racist views of the time saw these peoples as less able to resist the criminalizing effects of drug use. Jazz was similarly stereotyped.
- April fools came early at the Washington Post
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The left-wing media have been omitting the truth for so long, they no longer remember the omissions.
- Birth of a Nation
- One of the first feature-length films ever, notable for its historical value. Highly racist, even for its time.
- Black Man as a Cash Crop
- According to Xona, America’s most profitable crop is the Black-American, reaped by the Criminal Justice System.
- The Brother From Another Planet
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An extremely lesser-known movie, but very well directed (John Sayles) and acted (Joe Morton). It’s a movie about different worlds in a very literal as well as metaphorical sense!
- Capitalism, Religion, and Reform: The Social History of Temperance in Harvey, Illinois
- Ray Hutchison writes about the “conflicts between divergent subcultures in American society” that would eventually result in prohibition. Temperance communities may have been about keeping alcohol out, or they may have been about keeping Eastern Europeans out.
- Climate scientists say Hispanics, Africans mentally ill
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Study links living in warmer climates to increased rates of mental illness.
- The colorful mirror of the anointed
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The Color of his Presidency can’t change the massive government overreach under his watch.
- Democrats “oppress” black voters… by killing them en masse
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Over more than a century, Democrats throughout the United States have sought to glorify the Confederacy, from the battle flag to erecting monuments to the political leaders of the Confederacy. They have killed to do it. Republicans should work to tear down those monuments to slavery.
- The Exceptions: Indians and Blacks
- Whites were not allowed to sell liquor to blacks; and Europeans quickly took on an a paternal attitude at best towards the Natives.
- Forfeiture, Racism, and Gun Control
- Racist laws in the post-war south also included forfeiture for pretty much the same reason forfeiture exists today.
- From Reform to Reaction: The Sober Republic at Bay
- What’s fascinating to me is how much we’ve changed since repealing alcohol prohibition: there was once a time when appeal to racism did not suffice to keep bad laws. The calls for killing drug users when the drug was alcohol match almost exactly modern rhetoric. From adding poisons to the drug, to increasing penalties far beyond the bounds of the crime, we’ve seen all this before.
- Immigration and Antebellum Drinking
- German immigrants adapted their favorite lagers to the needs of native-born Americans, resulting in the “light-bodied, golden brew popular today”.
- Juan Williams Fears Race
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Fox News political analyst Juan Williams fears race may be at the root of the New York Times editorial begging opposition political party to block President’s Supreme Court nominee.
- The left’s vicious racial shaming
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The left is waging a war against struggling mothers—all in service of creating racial discord and shoring up their identity politics.
- A Nation of Drug Takers
- When America discovered that there were foreigners in the country, they conveniently forgot how recently they themselves had come over; the drugs those foreigners used became illegal. At first the laws targeted specific races; in time, the laws targeted everyone.
- Oregon schools call minorities “shiftless & mindless”
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Oregon white privilege conference says blacks, hispanics best-suited for taking orders from white masters, as they are unable to make decisions for themselves, think for themselves, and achieve success without direction.
- The Paradox of Temperance: Blacks and the Alcohol Question in Nineteenth-Century America
- Denise Herd writes about the “paradox” that the progressive temperance movement was also highly racist. The “negro problem” was was a “central issue” that prohibition was meant to solve.
- Pennsylvania AG says crime is racist
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Pennsylvania Attorney General vows to stop investigating and prosecuting crimes. “We know most blacks commit crimes, so it’s racist to target criminals for prosecution.”
- A Political Opiate
- Lewis H. Lapham writes a little about the prejudices that fuel the drug war.
- Reader Exposé: Mismediation of Deaf Culture and the tyranny of audism
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Sign language interpreters are always pulled from the ranks of the hearing, and can have no understanding of how to communicate the thoughts and feelings of the deaf.
- Redeeming the Lost: Revivalists and Republicans
- Prohibition forces were also often anti-immigration forces. Germans and Irish might have been open to calls for moderation, but not to calls for full prohibition.
- Reefer Racism
- During the great depression, America needed a new scapegoat, and in the southwest that turned out to be the Mexican. One means of oppression was to stereotype them as marijuana users and then claim that marijuana turned them into brutes that only superior firepower could stop, much as law enforcement in the south claimed about Negros and cocaine.
- Society and Race Under Threat
- Mankind always seems to need scapegoats to explain their own failures. In the late nineteenth century alcohol became the primary scapegoat, explaining why men committed crimes. In various ways, alcohol has been blamed for the downfall of kingdoms such as the Roman Empire.
