The Black Presidential Non-Slave: Genocide and the Present Tense of Racial Slavery (original) (raw)

Examining the Rhetoric of Race in American History and its Enduring Impact

Journal of Software Engineering and Simulation, 2024

Slavery, an enduring stain on the fabric of the United States, predates the nation's inception, persisting for approximately two and a half centuries as a sanctioned peculiar institution. Despite the nation's foundational assertion that all men are created equal, this study unveils a stark contradiction-a counterfeit commitment manifested through the embrace of chattel slavery since the inception of the New World. In this context, this paper delves into the systematic origins of racial slavery in America, commencing in the 16th century, exploring its enduring impacts, and shedding light on the resistance of the oppressed in shaping their existential identity. Employing purposeful content analysis and comparative study methods, this research meticulously examines the historical landscape. Drawing from a diverse array of sources, including research papers, historical texts, and dictionaries, the descriptive design framework of this study captures the nuances of racial slavery. With a primary focus on the cruelties inherent in racial slavery, the paper navigates the introduction of laws that sought to institutionalize it, leading to the consequential eruption of the Civil War in 1861. The author endeavors to make this research accessible to readers interested in the historical vault of slavery by unraveling its detrimental impacts on the nation.

To Be American Is To Be Indebted To Blackness: Understanding Blackness as Constitutive of an

2023

In this paper, I argue that African-American’s fight for national inclusion and belonging, from the American Revolution to the late twentieth century, centres some of the founding contradictions and tensions of America’s democratic project even as it implores Americans to embark on a process of national healing and reconciliation. Starting with a discussion on the founding contradiction of the United States, embodied through the juxtaposition of its declaration of human equality while retaining the practice and institution of chattel slavery, I will show some of the earliest struggles and constraints placed on Black life in America and our ability to access meaningful and gratuitous entry into society. Following the North’s victory of the Civil War, American life saw an opportunity to effectively include now-freed Black Americans into its fold. Despite some of the achievements that highlighted Black American life during the Reconstruction Era, that, too, was mediated by forms of legalised discrimination such as segregated Jim Crow, particularly in the South. Eventually, the dehumanising trauma of slavery mixed with the experiences of Southern Jim Crow, as well as better job opportunities in the North, saw an influx of Black migrants to Northern States in what came to be dubbed the Great Migration. However, it would take over another half century, manifested in the Civil Rights Movement, for widespread, national organising, advocating for the acknowledgement and enforcement of Black folks' citizenship and the rights. This paper takes up these historical moments in African-American life, in an attempt to shed light not only on the obstacles, but also on the nuanced forms of physical and political resistance and ideological advancements that came to define these socio-political moments.

Obama Deception?: Empire, ‘postracism’ and White Supremacy in the campaign and election of Barack Obama

Journal of Critical Race Inquiry, 2011

This essay aims to provide a socio-historical account of the role that white supremacy played in the Presidential ascendancy of Barack Obama. Far from transcending race, Mr. Obama explicitly crafted his political ontology to articulate a discourse of post-racism. A central claim I make is that Mr. Obama selectively and strategically appropriated the enterprise of anti-racism by deploying a postmodern amorphous blackness that simultaneously undermined it. On one hand he assuaged White anxiety about whether a Black President will seek to call in the lien African Americans have on the state and White US society. On the other, he propagated the belief that where Whites voted for him, this confirmed the triumphal defeat of racism. In either case, by trading on his ambiguous biography, his personage was made to affirm both the end of racism and the redundancy of anti-racist action.