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White supremacists frequently describe Black people as lazy, dirty, and childish.
Oh, really? Do they really believe this?
Then WHY do white supremacists try to jimmy Black people into feeding, cleaning, and tending (sometimes even breastfeeding) their tiny babies? Or into planting, cultivating, picking, washing, cutting, and tossing their salads (and cooking their other food)? Or into serving the food at their tables? Or into doing their dishes and laundry for them? Or into fixing their hair for them? or into tending their sick and old people?
Whenever I see a movie depicting the way white supremacists THINK the world should be ordered, even the incredibly whitewashed "Gone with the Wind," I really have to ask myself, "Who is being childish here? And just who looks like the real adult in the room?" What a strange world it was! Those huge mansions, those large fields, those charming orchards, were mostly created by Black people.
If I really believed that somebody was lazy, dirty, and childish, I would certainly never let them near tiny babies, sick and old people, or food preparation and cleanup. So, Black people, I don't think any of these people really believe these lies about you, if that makes you feel any better. Or maybe it just makes you madder. I am trying to guess how I would feel if I were in your place. I suspect I would be pretty angry but still the constant lies would be wearing me down.
I gather, from my reading, that the cognitive clash between the words of the slaveowners and their pathetic overdependence on their Black slaves is what mostly fueled the Abolitionist movement. I have read several books written during that period by different sorts of people from the North. Northerners who traveled to the South, expecting happy fellowship with different people there, reportedly found that they could hardly choke down their food from gutwrenching pity for the horrible physical condition of the people who were serving the food (half-healed untreated wounds and badly healed scars, gaunt underfed skinniness, deep weariness, terror-stricken downcast eyes). And the callous indifference of the white slavers did not go unnoticed, either.
By the way, they also reported that the South at that time was divided mostly three groups: a large number of obviously half-starved, beaten, terrorized Blacks, a very small number of obviously overfed, overlicensed, overprivileged white slaveowners, and a large number of obviously discouraged, anemic, underfed poor whites. They reported that the poor whites seemed to be also victimized by the "aristocratic" white slavers, who were hogging all the land and resources and social approval. In general, they noticed a change for the worse in the physical infrastructure as they journeyed further into the slave states. But it was the plight of the Black slaves that really made their blood boil.
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