Freedom Rider: White Citizenship

Black propagandist addresses comprehensive implicit whiteness

Margaret.Kimberley@BlackAgandaReport.com.

After all is said and done, what much of the so-called Tea Party wants is a return to America as a White Man’s Country. There are a few obstacles in their way, including the U.S. Constitution, but that’s not insurmountable. “On a daily basis pundits and politicians rear their ugly heads to say that the children born of undocumented persons should no longer be given American citizenship.”

The founding fathers made one think perfectly clear when they ratified the constitution in 1787. Full citizenship rights were meant only for white men of property. Over a period of nearly 200 years, people’s movements guaranteed that those rights were extended to everyone regardless of race or gender, but the fact that the struggle literally took centuries should not be forgotten. It is tempting to snicker at the sight of today’s Tea Party members, grown men wearing knee breeches and three-cornered hats. Yet their costumes tell an important tale.

They evoke an era still seen as the high water mark of American society, the days of the enslavement of one race and the extermination of another. This movement has captured the Republican Party outright and leaves even some Democratic politicians and pundits in a state of fear and/or awe.[1]

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[1] Let us remind this ‘writer’ that it was blacks who sold each other into American slavery. Let us also remind him that the Tea Party is a grass roots collaboration, while entities like the Congressional Black Caucus and LaRaza exist on the public dole for specifically racial motivations, similar to his blog called “Black Agenda Report”. — Ed

2010-08-07