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https://www.europesays.com/people/195937/ California state Senate considers bill requiring corporations to disclose ties to slavery #california #ChattelSlavery #CivilRightsDepartment #CorporateDisclosure #GavinNewsom #Reparations #StateSenate #TruthInDisclosureAct

#nativeamericangenocide #chattelslavery #jimcrowsegregation #warondrugs #ice #iceterrorism #AmericaWasNeverGreat

#nativeamericangenocide #chattelslavery #jimcrowsegregation #warondrugs #ice #iceterrorism #AmericaWasNeverGreat

#nativeamericangenocide #chattelslavery #jimcrowsegregation #warondrugs #ice #iceterrorism #AmericaWasNeverGreat

#nativeamericangenocide #chattelslavery #jimcrowsegregation #warondrugs #ice #iceterrorism #AmericaWasNeverGreat

Contrary to what the national broadcaster would make you believe, The Church of Scotland has not only apologised: it also has set up a Masters scholarship at Edinburgh: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlp9ep6q0zo

In England reparative justice is being resisted by a well-connected political lobby: https://alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-argument-about-project-spire-and-the-real-history-of-the-church-of-england-as-an-enslaver/

#clergy #religion #ChurchOfScotland #ChurchOfEngland #slavery #chattelSlavery #deportation #UK #England #Scotland #history

Contrary to what the national broadcaster would make you believe, The Church of Scotland has not only apologised: it also has set up a Masters scholarship at Edinburgh: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlp9ep6q0zo

In England reparative justice is being resisted by a well-connected political lobby: https://alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-argument-about-project-spire-and-the-real-history-of-the-church-of-england-as-an-enslaver/

#clergy #religion #ChurchOfScotland #ChurchOfEngland #slavery #chattelSlavery #deportation #UK #England #Scotland #history

Contrary to what the national broadcaster would make you believe, The Church of Scotland has not only apologised: it also has set up a Masters scholarship at Edinburgh: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlp9ep6q0zo

In England reparative justice is being resisted by a well-connected political lobby: https://alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-argument-about-project-spire-and-the-real-history-of-the-church-of-england-as-an-enslaver/

#clergy #religion #ChurchOfScotland #ChurchOfEngland #slavery #chattelSlavery #deportation #UK #England #Scotland #history

Contrary to what the national broadcaster would make you believe, The Church of Scotland has not only apologised: it also has set up a Masters scholarship at Edinburgh: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqlp9ep6q0zo

In England reparative justice is being resisted by a well-connected political lobby: https://alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-argument-about-project-spire-and-the-real-history-of-the-church-of-england-as-an-enslaver/

#clergy #religion #ChurchOfScotland #ChurchOfEngland #slavery #chattelSlavery #deportation #UK #England #Scotland #history

Carol Grose reviews a book about the policies of the British Monarchy:
"The Crown’s Silence gives a clear view into the British monarchy’s long entanglement with the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas. Frequently, omissions allowed scholars to avoid highlighting and analysing the British royal family’s role in encouraging and profiting from the slave trade and slavery. When Elizabeth I became queen, England’s finances were in a parlous state, and to rectify this she encouraged traders to follow the lead of Portugal and Spain and plunder west Africa. When she understood the profitability of the slave trade, she offered her political support, eventually investing herself and loaning navy warships as protection against the Spanish and Portuguese. The monarchs who followed Elizabeth used her strategy of investment and using military support to perpetuate the slave trade. Newman’s comprehensive and careful archival work demonstrates the significance of scrutinizing business transactions and policy to establish historical patterns. She shows the economic and political importance of slavery to the British monarchy and how, when abolishing the slave trade became a popular moral cause, the royal family became more oblique about how they benefitted.

"Throughout The Crown’s Silence, Newman builds the argument by using a variety of archives that show how the monarchy was tied to commercial interests within the city of London. Credit facilities developed to facilitate the slave trade and the slave dependent plantation economies in the Americas. The historical narrative is at its strongest when she describes how the legal framework around slaveholding became more complicated in the eighteenth century in part because the British wanted to create a distinction between themselves and the “venal slavers” in America, creating a tiered system where slaves of African descent in the British isles had the potential for liberty. Creating the distinction fueled the abolition movement which peaked around the time Queen Victoria came to the throne. After slavery was abolished in the Caribbean, because people of African descent were put into a harsh form of coerced apprenticeship. As Newman points out, there was colonial campaign to credit Queen Victoria with the end of slavery and apprenticeship, although, unlike the slaveholders, they received no compensation for their years of labor. Moreover, Newman concludes that Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, the standard for future royal “statements without teeth or legal implications; statements carefully crafted to highlight Britain’s abolition efforts and erase centuries of racial exploitation and violence by omission.”

#book #trade #trading #finance #London #slavery #investements #capitalism #chattelSlavery #deportation #bookstodon #monarchy #UK #England #Scotland #TheRoyals

Carol Grose reviews a book about the policies of the British Monarchy:
"The Crown’s Silence gives a clear view into the British monarchy’s long entanglement with the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas. Frequently, omissions allowed scholars to avoid highlighting and analysing the British royal family’s role in encouraging and profiting from the slave trade and slavery. When Elizabeth I became queen, England’s finances were in a parlous state, and to rectify this she encouraged traders to follow the lead of Portugal and Spain and plunder west Africa. When she understood the profitability of the slave trade, she offered her political support, eventually investing herself and loaning navy warships as protection against the Spanish and Portuguese. The monarchs who followed Elizabeth used her strategy of investment and using military support to perpetuate the slave trade. Newman’s comprehensive and careful archival work demonstrates the significance of scrutinizing business transactions and policy to establish historical patterns. She shows the economic and political importance of slavery to the British monarchy and how, when abolishing the slave trade became a popular moral cause, the royal family became more oblique about how they benefitted.

"Throughout The Crown’s Silence, Newman builds the argument by using a variety of archives that show how the monarchy was tied to commercial interests within the city of London. Credit facilities developed to facilitate the slave trade and the slave dependent plantation economies in the Americas. The historical narrative is at its strongest when she describes how the legal framework around slaveholding became more complicated in the eighteenth century in part because the British wanted to create a distinction between themselves and the “venal slavers” in America, creating a tiered system where slaves of African descent in the British isles had the potential for liberty. Creating the distinction fueled the abolition movement which peaked around the time Queen Victoria came to the throne. After slavery was abolished in the Caribbean, because people of African descent were put into a harsh form of coerced apprenticeship. As Newman points out, there was colonial campaign to credit Queen Victoria with the end of slavery and apprenticeship, although, unlike the slaveholders, they received no compensation for their years of labor. Moreover, Newman concludes that Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, the standard for future royal “statements without teeth or legal implications; statements carefully crafted to highlight Britain’s abolition efforts and erase centuries of racial exploitation and violence by omission.”

#book #trade #trading #finance #London #slavery #investements #capitalism #chattelSlavery #deportation #bookstodon #monarchy #UK #England #Scotland #TheRoyals

Carol Grose reviews a book about the policies of the British Monarchy:
"The Crown’s Silence gives a clear view into the British monarchy’s long entanglement with the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas. Frequently, omissions allowed scholars to avoid highlighting and analysing the British royal family’s role in encouraging and profiting from the slave trade and slavery. When Elizabeth I became queen, England’s finances were in a parlous state, and to rectify this she encouraged traders to follow the lead of Portugal and Spain and plunder west Africa. When she understood the profitability of the slave trade, she offered her political support, eventually investing herself and loaning navy warships as protection against the Spanish and Portuguese. The monarchs who followed Elizabeth used her strategy of investment and using military support to perpetuate the slave trade. Newman’s comprehensive and careful archival work demonstrates the significance of scrutinizing business transactions and policy to establish historical patterns. She shows the economic and political importance of slavery to the British monarchy and how, when abolishing the slave trade became a popular moral cause, the royal family became more oblique about how they benefitted.

"Throughout The Crown’s Silence, Newman builds the argument by using a variety of archives that show how the monarchy was tied to commercial interests within the city of London. Credit facilities developed to facilitate the slave trade and the slave dependent plantation economies in the Americas. The historical narrative is at its strongest when she describes how the legal framework around slaveholding became more complicated in the eighteenth century in part because the British wanted to create a distinction between themselves and the “venal slavers” in America, creating a tiered system where slaves of African descent in the British isles had the potential for liberty. Creating the distinction fueled the abolition movement which peaked around the time Queen Victoria came to the throne. After slavery was abolished in the Caribbean, because people of African descent were put into a harsh form of coerced apprenticeship. As Newman points out, there was colonial campaign to credit Queen Victoria with the end of slavery and apprenticeship, although, unlike the slaveholders, they received no compensation for their years of labor. Moreover, Newman concludes that Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, the standard for future royal “statements without teeth or legal implications; statements carefully crafted to highlight Britain’s abolition efforts and erase centuries of racial exploitation and violence by omission.”

#book #trade #trading #finance #London #slavery #investements #capitalism #chattelSlavery #deportation #bookstodon #monarchy #UK #England #Scotland #TheRoyals

Carol Grose reviews a book about the policies of the British Monarchy:
"The Crown’s Silence gives a clear view into the British monarchy’s long entanglement with the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas. Frequently, omissions allowed scholars to avoid highlighting and analysing the British royal family’s role in encouraging and profiting from the slave trade and slavery. When Elizabeth I became queen, England’s finances were in a parlous state, and to rectify this she encouraged traders to follow the lead of Portugal and Spain and plunder west Africa. When she understood the profitability of the slave trade, she offered her political support, eventually investing herself and loaning navy warships as protection against the Spanish and Portuguese. The monarchs who followed Elizabeth used her strategy of investment and using military support to perpetuate the slave trade. Newman’s comprehensive and careful archival work demonstrates the significance of scrutinizing business transactions and policy to establish historical patterns. She shows the economic and political importance of slavery to the British monarchy and how, when abolishing the slave trade became a popular moral cause, the royal family became more oblique about how they benefitted.

"Throughout The Crown’s Silence, Newman builds the argument by using a variety of archives that show how the monarchy was tied to commercial interests within the city of London. Credit facilities developed to facilitate the slave trade and the slave dependent plantation economies in the Americas. The historical narrative is at its strongest when she describes how the legal framework around slaveholding became more complicated in the eighteenth century in part because the British wanted to create a distinction between themselves and the “venal slavers” in America, creating a tiered system where slaves of African descent in the British isles had the potential for liberty. Creating the distinction fueled the abolition movement which peaked around the time Queen Victoria came to the throne. After slavery was abolished in the Caribbean, because people of African descent were put into a harsh form of coerced apprenticeship. As Newman points out, there was colonial campaign to credit Queen Victoria with the end of slavery and apprenticeship, although, unlike the slaveholders, they received no compensation for their years of labor. Moreover, Newman concludes that Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, the standard for future royal “statements without teeth or legal implications; statements carefully crafted to highlight Britain’s abolition efforts and erase centuries of racial exploitation and violence by omission.”

#book #trade #trading #finance #London #slavery #investements #capitalism #chattelSlavery #deportation #bookstodon #monarchy #UK #England #Scotland #TheRoyals

The Architecture of Denial: From the UN Floor to the Front Porch

Picture taken from geopoliticaleconomy.com

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Long Shadow of the Ledger
2. The High Hall: A Vote Against History (The 2026 UN Resolution)
3. The Front Porch: The Law of the Customer (The 2015 Lowe’s Incident)
4. The Normalization of the Absurd: Why Color is a “Valid” Preference
5. The Economic Instinct: Liability over Liberty
6. The “Colorblind” Gaslight: A Rebuttal to the Critics
7. Conclusion: A Call to Action—Citizen or Customer?
8. Glossary of Terms
9. Bibliography & Source Notes

Introduction: The Long Shadow of the Ledger

Every week, I sit down to write this column, and every week, I receive a handful of messages from readers telling me that I am “prolonging racism” by continuing to talk about it. They suggest that if I simply stopped pointing out the fire, the house would somehow stop burning. They ask for “colorblindness,” as if ignoring the paint on the walls changes the structural integrity of the foundation.

But this week, a vote at the United Nations forced us to look at the foundation. It revealed a global, clinical logic that I call the Legality of Inhumanity—the idea that if a horror was once sanctioned by the state, it is exempt from moral accountability today. To see how this high-level diplomacy translates to our own streets, we don’t have to look back centuries. We only have to look back a decade. By juxtaposing a 2026 global resolution with a 2015 incident at a Lowe’s in Virginia, we see that the architecture of denial isn’t just a historical relic; it is the operating system of our modern world.

The High Hall: A Vote Against History

On March 25, 2026, the United Nations General Assembly Hall erupted in applause. In a historic 123-3 vote, the body adopted a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade and racialized chattel slavery as the “gravest crime against humanity.” For the first time at this level, the world formally acknowledged that the “chattelization” of human beings was the definitive break in world history that birthed our modern racial capitalist system.

Yet, as the applause faded, the tally on the screen told a different story. The United States, alongside Israel and Argentina, cast a “No” vote. The defense offered by Deputy U.S. Ambassador Dan Negrea was a masterclass in clinical denial. He stated that the U.S. “does not recognize a legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred.”

This is the Legality of Inhumanity. It suggests that if the state signs a paper saying your life is a line item, then your suffering is legally invisible. It implies that justice is not an inherent human right, but a gift that the state can choose to withhold based on the fine print of a centuries-old ledger.

The Front Porch: The Law of the Customer

To understand how this logic manifests in our neighborhoods, we look to August 2015. Marcus Bradley, an 11-year veteran delivery driver for Lowe’s in Danville, Virginia, was pulled from his route. A customer had called and explicitly requested that no Black person step onto her property.

The manager didn’t see the request as a moral emergency. He didn’t defend the dignity of his veteran employee. He called Bradley and told him to turn the truck around. When the customer was later asked about her demand, she hid behind the same shield the U.S. Ambassador used this week: “The Right.” She told reporters, “I got a right to have whatever I want and that’s it.”

In her mind, her “right” as a consumer—her personal “law” of the marketplace—superseded Marcus Bradley’s humanity. The Ambassador uses International Law to protect the national treasury; the customer uses “Customer Rights” to protect her prejudice. They are speaking the same dialect of denial.

The Normalization of the Absurd

There is a deeper psychological rot here that we must address. If that customer had called and said, “I don’t want a driver who is over six feet tall,” or “I don’t want a driver with blue eyes,” the manager would have seen the ridiculousness of the request. He would have recognized it as a bizarre, irrational whim that no business could—or should—honor.

But when she said she didn’t want a Black person, the manager didn’t find it “ridiculous.” He might not have agreed with her, but on some subconscious level, he understood her. In his mind, her racism was a “valid” preference that needed to be managed to save a sale.

This is the core of the problem: In America, discriminating because of color is still not seen as egregious as other forms of absurdity. It is accepted as “just the way of things.” This is why the U.S. cannot bring itself to call slavery a “grave” crime, and why 52 nations (including the UK and much of the EU) chose to abstain from the vote. To them, the global hierarchy that puts Black lives at the bottom is so normalized that they view an attempt to label it a “crime” as a radical inconvenience rather than a moral necessity.

The Economic Instinct: Liability over Liberty

The U.S. government isn’t afraid of a history lesson; they are afraid of an invoice. The UN resolution explicitly links the “crime against humanity” label to reparatory justice. By refusing the label, the U.S. is practicing Liability Management. They are acting as defense attorneys for a bank account built on 400 years of stolen labor.

The Lowe’s manager acted on the same survivalist instinct: “Keep the sale.” In a capitalist system, the fear of a lost sale outweighs the obligation to protect an employee’s soul. The institution calculated that the easiest way to balance the books was to erase the Black man from the equation. This is the Economics of Exclusion. It treats Black humanity as an “operating cost” that must be minimized to ensure the comfort of the “paying” population.

The “Colorblind” Gaslight

To the readers who tell me I am “prolonging racism”: look at the tally. Look at the Virginia driveway.

I am not the one who made the UN vote about race; the U.S. government did when they decided that the “legal” rights of 18th-century enslavers were more important than the “human” rights of 21st-century descendants. I am not the one who made the delivery about race; the customer did when she looked at a veteran employee and saw only a color she wanted to exclude.

You ask me to be “colorblind,” but you are asking me to be blind to the very ledger the world is using to calculate my worth. When you tell me to “move on,” you are asking me to accept a status quo where “Legality” is a shield for “Inhumanity.”

We don’t prolong a fire by pointing at the smoke. We prolong it by pretending the house isn’t burning while the inhabitants are still trapped inside.

A Call to Action: Citizen or Customer?

We have reached a point where we must decide what kind of society we actually want to be. Are we a nation of Customers, where our only “right” is the right to have what we want, regardless of who is crushed in the process? Or are we a nation of Citizens, where our primary obligation is to uphold the inherent dignity of every person?

Here is my challenge to you this week:

1. Audit the “Rights” you claim. The next time you say “I have a right to…” ask yourself if that right requires the erasure or exclusion of someone else’s humanity.
2. Reject the “Liability” Defense. Stop accepting “it’s too expensive” as an excuse for avoiding justice. Justice is never a “cost”—it is an investment in our collective survival.
3. Support the Record. Don’t look away. Read the history that the U.S. government tried to vote into non-existence this week. Acknowledge that the “Decade of Reparations” (2026-2036) isn’t about a handout; it’s about a settlement for a debt that has been accruing interest for four centuries.

I will keep writing. I will keep pointing at the fire. Not because I want to see the house burn, but because I believe we are still capable of building something better—if only we have the courage to admit that the foundation is currently on fire.

Glossary of Terms

• Chattel Slavery: A specific form of enslavement where the enslaved person is legally considered the personal property (chattel) of the owner and can be bought, sold, and inherited.
• Crimes Against Humanity: Widespread or systematic attacks directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack. As of March 2026, the UN explicitly includes the transatlantic slave trade in this definition.
• Economics of Exclusion: A system where discriminatory practices are maintained or ignored because they are perceived to be more “profitable” or “efficient” than the alternative of justice.
• Legality of Inhumanity: The rhetorical and legal defense that an atrocity cannot be punished or repaired if it was considered “legal” under the laws of the perpetrators at the time it occurred.
• Liability Management: In a political context, the strategy of avoiding specific language or legal admissions (like “crime”) to prevent future financial obligations, such as reparations.
• Reparatory Justice: A process that seeks to rectify the systemic harms of the past through a combination of financial restitution, institutional reform, and formal apologies.

Bibliography & Source Notes

Primary Sources

• United Nations General Assembly. (2026, March 25). Resolution on the Transatlantic Slave Trade as a Grave Crime Against Humanity. UN Press Office.
• Negrea, D. (2026). Statement by the Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations regarding Agenda Item 118: Follow-up to the Durban Declaration. U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
• African Union. (2026). Declaration of the Decade of Reparations (2026-2036). AU Assembly of Heads of State.

News Records & Case Studies

• The Washington Post. (2015, August 12). “Lowe’s driver says he was pulled from delivery after customer’s ‘no black drivers’ request.”
• ABC News / WSET-TV. (2015, August 10). Interview with Marcus Bradley: Discrimination in Danville, VA.
• The New York Times. (2026, March 26). “U.S. Joins Minority in Voting Against U.N. Slavery Resolution.”

Theoretical Framework

• Robinson, C. (1983). Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. (Used for the concept of “Racial Capitalism”).

The Architecture of Denial: From the UN Floor to the Front Porch

Picture taken from geopoliticaleconomy.com

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Long Shadow of the Ledger
2. The High Hall: A Vote Against History (The 2026 UN Resolution)
3. The Front Porch: The Law of the Customer (The 2015 Lowe’s Incident)
4. The Normalization of the Absurd: Why Color is a “Valid” Preference
5. The Economic Instinct: Liability over Liberty
6. The “Colorblind” Gaslight: A Rebuttal to the Critics
7. Conclusion: A Call to Action—Citizen or Customer?
8. Glossary of Terms
9. Bibliography & Source Notes

Introduction: The Long Shadow of the Ledger

Every week, I sit down to write this column, and every week, I receive a handful of messages from readers telling me that I am “prolonging racism” by continuing to talk about it. They suggest that if I simply stopped pointing out the fire, the house would somehow stop burning. They ask for “colorblindness,” as if ignoring the paint on the walls changes the structural integrity of the foundation.

But this week, a vote at the United Nations forced us to look at the foundation. It revealed a global, clinical logic that I call the Legality of Inhumanity—the idea that if a horror was once sanctioned by the state, it is exempt from moral accountability today. To see how this high-level diplomacy translates to our own streets, we don’t have to look back centuries. We only have to look back a decade. By juxtaposing a 2026 global resolution with a 2015 incident at a Lowe’s in Virginia, we see that the architecture of denial isn’t just a historical relic; it is the operating system of our modern world.

The High Hall: A Vote Against History

On March 25, 2026, the United Nations General Assembly Hall erupted in applause. In a historic 123-3 vote, the body adopted a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade and racialized chattel slavery as the “gravest crime against humanity.” For the first time at this level, the world formally acknowledged that the “chattelization” of human beings was the definitive break in world history that birthed our modern racial capitalist system.

Yet, as the applause faded, the tally on the screen told a different story. The United States, alongside Israel and Argentina, cast a “No” vote. The defense offered by Deputy U.S. Ambassador Dan Negrea was a masterclass in clinical denial. He stated that the U.S. “does not recognize a legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred.”

This is the Legality of Inhumanity. It suggests that if the state signs a paper saying your life is a line item, then your suffering is legally invisible. It implies that justice is not an inherent human right, but a gift that the state can choose to withhold based on the fine print of a centuries-old ledger.

The Front Porch: The Law of the Customer

To understand how this logic manifests in our neighborhoods, we look to August 2015. Marcus Bradley, an 11-year veteran delivery driver for Lowe’s in Danville, Virginia, was pulled from his route. A customer had called and explicitly requested that no Black person step onto her property.

The manager didn’t see the request as a moral emergency. He didn’t defend the dignity of his veteran employee. He called Bradley and told him to turn the truck around. When the customer was later asked about her demand, she hid behind the same shield the U.S. Ambassador used this week: “The Right.” She told reporters, “I got a right to have whatever I want and that’s it.”

In her mind, her “right” as a consumer—her personal “law” of the marketplace—superseded Marcus Bradley’s humanity. The Ambassador uses International Law to protect the national treasury; the customer uses “Customer Rights” to protect her prejudice. They are speaking the same dialect of denial.

The Normalization of the Absurd

There is a deeper psychological rot here that we must address. If that customer had called and said, “I don’t want a driver who is over six feet tall,” or “I don’t want a driver with blue eyes,” the manager would have seen the ridiculousness of the request. He would have recognized it as a bizarre, irrational whim that no business could—or should—honor.

But when she said she didn’t want a Black person, the manager didn’t find it “ridiculous.” He might not have agreed with her, but on some subconscious level, he understood her. In his mind, her racism was a “valid” preference that needed to be managed to save a sale.

This is the core of the problem: In America, discriminating because of color is still not seen as egregious as other forms of absurdity. It is accepted as “just the way of things.” This is why the U.S. cannot bring itself to call slavery a “grave” crime, and why 52 nations (including the UK and much of the EU) chose to abstain from the vote. To them, the global hierarchy that puts Black lives at the bottom is so normalized that they view an attempt to label it a “crime” as a radical inconvenience rather than a moral necessity.

The Economic Instinct: Liability over Liberty

The U.S. government isn’t afraid of a history lesson; they are afraid of an invoice. The UN resolution explicitly links the “crime against humanity” label to reparatory justice. By refusing the label, the U.S. is practicing Liability Management. They are acting as defense attorneys for a bank account built on 400 years of stolen labor.

The Lowe’s manager acted on the same survivalist instinct: “Keep the sale.” In a capitalist system, the fear of a lost sale outweighs the obligation to protect an employee’s soul. The institution calculated that the easiest way to balance the books was to erase the Black man from the equation. This is the Economics of Exclusion. It treats Black humanity as an “operating cost” that must be minimized to ensure the comfort of the “paying” population.

The “Colorblind” Gaslight

To the readers who tell me I am “prolonging racism”: look at the tally. Look at the Virginia driveway.

I am not the one who made the UN vote about race; the U.S. government did when they decided that the “legal” rights of 18th-century enslavers were more important than the “human” rights of 21st-century descendants. I am not the one who made the delivery about race; the customer did when she looked at a veteran employee and saw only a color she wanted to exclude.

You ask me to be “colorblind,” but you are asking me to be blind to the very ledger the world is using to calculate my worth. When you tell me to “move on,” you are asking me to accept a status quo where “Legality” is a shield for “Inhumanity.”

We don’t prolong a fire by pointing at the smoke. We prolong it by pretending the house isn’t burning while the inhabitants are still trapped inside.

A Call to Action: Citizen or Customer?

We have reached a point where we must decide what kind of society we actually want to be. Are we a nation of Customers, where our only “right” is the right to have what we want, regardless of who is crushed in the process? Or are we a nation of Citizens, where our primary obligation is to uphold the inherent dignity of every person?

Here is my challenge to you this week:

1. Audit the “Rights” you claim. The next time you say “I have a right to…” ask yourself if that right requires the erasure or exclusion of someone else’s humanity.
2. Reject the “Liability” Defense. Stop accepting “it’s too expensive” as an excuse for avoiding justice. Justice is never a “cost”—it is an investment in our collective survival.
3. Support the Record. Don’t look away. Read the history that the U.S. government tried to vote into non-existence this week. Acknowledge that the “Decade of Reparations” (2026-2036) isn’t about a handout; it’s about a settlement for a debt that has been accruing interest for four centuries.

I will keep writing. I will keep pointing at the fire. Not because I want to see the house burn, but because I believe we are still capable of building something better—if only we have the courage to admit that the foundation is currently on fire.

Glossary of Terms

• Chattel Slavery: A specific form of enslavement where the enslaved person is legally considered the personal property (chattel) of the owner and can be bought, sold, and inherited.
• Crimes Against Humanity: Widespread or systematic attacks directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack. As of March 2026, the UN explicitly includes the transatlantic slave trade in this definition.
• Economics of Exclusion: A system where discriminatory practices are maintained or ignored because they are perceived to be more “profitable” or “efficient” than the alternative of justice.
• Legality of Inhumanity: The rhetorical and legal defense that an atrocity cannot be punished or repaired if it was considered “legal” under the laws of the perpetrators at the time it occurred.
• Liability Management: In a political context, the strategy of avoiding specific language or legal admissions (like “crime”) to prevent future financial obligations, such as reparations.
• Reparatory Justice: A process that seeks to rectify the systemic harms of the past through a combination of financial restitution, institutional reform, and formal apologies.

Bibliography & Source Notes

Primary Sources

• United Nations General Assembly. (2026, March 25). Resolution on the Transatlantic Slave Trade as a Grave Crime Against Humanity. UN Press Office.
• Negrea, D. (2026). Statement by the Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations regarding Agenda Item 118: Follow-up to the Durban Declaration. U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
• African Union. (2026). Declaration of the Decade of Reparations (2026-2036). AU Assembly of Heads of State.

News Records & Case Studies

• The Washington Post. (2015, August 12). “Lowe’s driver says he was pulled from delivery after customer’s ‘no black drivers’ request.”
• ABC News / WSET-TV. (2015, August 10). Interview with Marcus Bradley: Discrimination in Danville, VA.
• The New York Times. (2026, March 26). “U.S. Joins Minority in Voting Against U.N. Slavery Resolution.”

Theoretical Framework

• Robinson, C. (1983). Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. (Used for the concept of “Racial Capitalism”).

The Architecture of Denial: From the UN Floor to the Front Porch

Picture taken from geopoliticaleconomy.com

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Long Shadow of the Ledger
2. The High Hall: A Vote Against History (The 2026 UN Resolution)
3. The Front Porch: The Law of the Customer (The 2015 Lowe’s Incident)
4. The Normalization of the Absurd: Why Color is a “Valid” Preference
5. The Economic Instinct: Liability over Liberty
6. The “Colorblind” Gaslight: A Rebuttal to the Critics
7. Conclusion: A Call to Action—Citizen or Customer?
8. Glossary of Terms
9. Bibliography & Source Notes

Introduction: The Long Shadow of the Ledger

Every week, I sit down to write this column, and every week, I receive a handful of messages from readers telling me that I am “prolonging racism” by continuing to talk about it. They suggest that if I simply stopped pointing out the fire, the house would somehow stop burning. They ask for “colorblindness,” as if ignoring the paint on the walls changes the structural integrity of the foundation.

But this week, a vote at the United Nations forced us to look at the foundation. It revealed a global, clinical logic that I call the Legality of Inhumanity—the idea that if a horror was once sanctioned by the state, it is exempt from moral accountability today. To see how this high-level diplomacy translates to our own streets, we don’t have to look back centuries. We only have to look back a decade. By juxtaposing a 2026 global resolution with a 2015 incident at a Lowe’s in Virginia, we see that the architecture of denial isn’t just a historical relic; it is the operating system of our modern world.

The High Hall: A Vote Against History

On March 25, 2026, the United Nations General Assembly Hall erupted in applause. In a historic 123-3 vote, the body adopted a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade and racialized chattel slavery as the “gravest crime against humanity.” For the first time at this level, the world formally acknowledged that the “chattelization” of human beings was the definitive break in world history that birthed our modern racial capitalist system.

Yet, as the applause faded, the tally on the screen told a different story. The United States, alongside Israel and Argentina, cast a “No” vote. The defense offered by Deputy U.S. Ambassador Dan Negrea was a masterclass in clinical denial. He stated that the U.S. “does not recognize a legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred.”

This is the Legality of Inhumanity. It suggests that if the state signs a paper saying your life is a line item, then your suffering is legally invisible. It implies that justice is not an inherent human right, but a gift that the state can choose to withhold based on the fine print of a centuries-old ledger.

The Front Porch: The Law of the Customer

To understand how this logic manifests in our neighborhoods, we look to August 2015. Marcus Bradley, an 11-year veteran delivery driver for Lowe’s in Danville, Virginia, was pulled from his route. A customer had called and explicitly requested that no Black person step onto her property.

The manager didn’t see the request as a moral emergency. He didn’t defend the dignity of his veteran employee. He called Bradley and told him to turn the truck around. When the customer was later asked about her demand, she hid behind the same shield the U.S. Ambassador used this week: “The Right.” She told reporters, “I got a right to have whatever I want and that’s it.”

In her mind, her “right” as a consumer—her personal “law” of the marketplace—superseded Marcus Bradley’s humanity. The Ambassador uses International Law to protect the national treasury; the customer uses “Customer Rights” to protect her prejudice. They are speaking the same dialect of denial.

The Normalization of the Absurd

There is a deeper psychological rot here that we must address. If that customer had called and said, “I don’t want a driver who is over six feet tall,” or “I don’t want a driver with blue eyes,” the manager would have seen the ridiculousness of the request. He would have recognized it as a bizarre, irrational whim that no business could—or should—honor.

But when she said she didn’t want a Black person, the manager didn’t find it “ridiculous.” He might not have agreed with her, but on some subconscious level, he understood her. In his mind, her racism was a “valid” preference that needed to be managed to save a sale.

This is the core of the problem: In America, discriminating because of color is still not seen as egregious as other forms of absurdity. It is accepted as “just the way of things.” This is why the U.S. cannot bring itself to call slavery a “grave” crime, and why 52 nations (including the UK and much of the EU) chose to abstain from the vote. To them, the global hierarchy that puts Black lives at the bottom is so normalized that they view an attempt to label it a “crime” as a radical inconvenience rather than a moral necessity.

The Economic Instinct: Liability over Liberty

The U.S. government isn’t afraid of a history lesson; they are afraid of an invoice. The UN resolution explicitly links the “crime against humanity” label to reparatory justice. By refusing the label, the U.S. is practicing Liability Management. They are acting as defense attorneys for a bank account built on 400 years of stolen labor.

The Lowe’s manager acted on the same survivalist instinct: “Keep the sale.” In a capitalist system, the fear of a lost sale outweighs the obligation to protect an employee’s soul. The institution calculated that the easiest way to balance the books was to erase the Black man from the equation. This is the Economics of Exclusion. It treats Black humanity as an “operating cost” that must be minimized to ensure the comfort of the “paying” population.

The “Colorblind” Gaslight

To the readers who tell me I am “prolonging racism”: look at the tally. Look at the Virginia driveway.

I am not the one who made the UN vote about race; the U.S. government did when they decided that the “legal” rights of 18th-century enslavers were more important than the “human” rights of 21st-century descendants. I am not the one who made the delivery about race; the customer did when she looked at a veteran employee and saw only a color she wanted to exclude.

You ask me to be “colorblind,” but you are asking me to be blind to the very ledger the world is using to calculate my worth. When you tell me to “move on,” you are asking me to accept a status quo where “Legality” is a shield for “Inhumanity.”

We don’t prolong a fire by pointing at the smoke. We prolong it by pretending the house isn’t burning while the inhabitants are still trapped inside.

A Call to Action: Citizen or Customer?

We have reached a point where we must decide what kind of society we actually want to be. Are we a nation of Customers, where our only “right” is the right to have what we want, regardless of who is crushed in the process? Or are we a nation of Citizens, where our primary obligation is to uphold the inherent dignity of every person?

Here is my challenge to you this week:

1. Audit the “Rights” you claim. The next time you say “I have a right to…” ask yourself if that right requires the erasure or exclusion of someone else’s humanity.
2. Reject the “Liability” Defense. Stop accepting “it’s too expensive” as an excuse for avoiding justice. Justice is never a “cost”—it is an investment in our collective survival.
3. Support the Record. Don’t look away. Read the history that the U.S. government tried to vote into non-existence this week. Acknowledge that the “Decade of Reparations” (2026-2036) isn’t about a handout; it’s about a settlement for a debt that has been accruing interest for four centuries.

I will keep writing. I will keep pointing at the fire. Not because I want to see the house burn, but because I believe we are still capable of building something better—if only we have the courage to admit that the foundation is currently on fire.

Glossary of Terms

• Chattel Slavery: A specific form of enslavement where the enslaved person is legally considered the personal property (chattel) of the owner and can be bought, sold, and inherited.
• Crimes Against Humanity: Widespread or systematic attacks directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack. As of March 2026, the UN explicitly includes the transatlantic slave trade in this definition.
• Economics of Exclusion: A system where discriminatory practices are maintained or ignored because they are perceived to be more “profitable” or “efficient” than the alternative of justice.
• Legality of Inhumanity: The rhetorical and legal defense that an atrocity cannot be punished or repaired if it was considered “legal” under the laws of the perpetrators at the time it occurred.
• Liability Management: In a political context, the strategy of avoiding specific language or legal admissions (like “crime”) to prevent future financial obligations, such as reparations.
• Reparatory Justice: A process that seeks to rectify the systemic harms of the past through a combination of financial restitution, institutional reform, and formal apologies.

Bibliography & Source Notes

Primary Sources

• United Nations General Assembly. (2026, March 25). Resolution on the Transatlantic Slave Trade as a Grave Crime Against Humanity. UN Press Office.
• Negrea, D. (2026). Statement by the Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations regarding Agenda Item 118: Follow-up to the Durban Declaration. U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
• African Union. (2026). Declaration of the Decade of Reparations (2026-2036). AU Assembly of Heads of State.

News Records & Case Studies

• The Washington Post. (2015, August 12). “Lowe’s driver says he was pulled from delivery after customer’s ‘no black drivers’ request.”
• ABC News / WSET-TV. (2015, August 10). Interview with Marcus Bradley: Discrimination in Danville, VA.
• The New York Times. (2026, March 26). “U.S. Joins Minority in Voting Against U.N. Slavery Resolution.”

Theoretical Framework

• Robinson, C. (1983). Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. (Used for the concept of “Racial Capitalism”).

The Architecture of Denial: From the UN Floor to the Front Porch

Picture taken from geopoliticaleconomy.com

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Long Shadow of the Ledger
2. The High Hall: A Vote Against History (The 2026 UN Resolution)
3. The Front Porch: The Law of the Customer (The 2015 Lowe’s Incident)
4. The Normalization of the Absurd: Why Color is a “Valid” Preference
5. The Economic Instinct: Liability over Liberty
6. The “Colorblind” Gaslight: A Rebuttal to the Critics
7. Conclusion: A Call to Action—Citizen or Customer?
8. Glossary of Terms
9. Bibliography & Source Notes

Introduction: The Long Shadow of the Ledger

Every week, I sit down to write this column, and every week, I receive a handful of messages from readers telling me that I am “prolonging racism” by continuing to talk about it. They suggest that if I simply stopped pointing out the fire, the house would somehow stop burning. They ask for “colorblindness,” as if ignoring the paint on the walls changes the structural integrity of the foundation.

But this week, a vote at the United Nations forced us to look at the foundation. It revealed a global, clinical logic that I call the Legality of Inhumanity—the idea that if a horror was once sanctioned by the state, it is exempt from moral accountability today. To see how this high-level diplomacy translates to our own streets, we don’t have to look back centuries. We only have to look back a decade. By juxtaposing a 2026 global resolution with a 2015 incident at a Lowe’s in Virginia, we see that the architecture of denial isn’t just a historical relic; it is the operating system of our modern world.

The High Hall: A Vote Against History

On March 25, 2026, the United Nations General Assembly Hall erupted in applause. In a historic 123-3 vote, the body adopted a resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade and racialized chattel slavery as the “gravest crime against humanity.” For the first time at this level, the world formally acknowledged that the “chattelization” of human beings was the definitive break in world history that birthed our modern racial capitalist system.

Yet, as the applause faded, the tally on the screen told a different story. The United States, alongside Israel and Argentina, cast a “No” vote. The defense offered by Deputy U.S. Ambassador Dan Negrea was a masterclass in clinical denial. He stated that the U.S. “does not recognize a legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred.”

This is the Legality of Inhumanity. It suggests that if the state signs a paper saying your life is a line item, then your suffering is legally invisible. It implies that justice is not an inherent human right, but a gift that the state can choose to withhold based on the fine print of a centuries-old ledger.

The Front Porch: The Law of the Customer

To understand how this logic manifests in our neighborhoods, we look to August 2015. Marcus Bradley, an 11-year veteran delivery driver for Lowe’s in Danville, Virginia, was pulled from his route. A customer had called and explicitly requested that no Black person step onto her property.

The manager didn’t see the request as a moral emergency. He didn’t defend the dignity of his veteran employee. He called Bradley and told him to turn the truck around. When the customer was later asked about her demand, she hid behind the same shield the U.S. Ambassador used this week: “The Right.” She told reporters, “I got a right to have whatever I want and that’s it.”

In her mind, her “right” as a consumer—her personal “law” of the marketplace—superseded Marcus Bradley’s humanity. The Ambassador uses International Law to protect the national treasury; the customer uses “Customer Rights” to protect her prejudice. They are speaking the same dialect of denial.

The Normalization of the Absurd

There is a deeper psychological rot here that we must address. If that customer had called and said, “I don’t want a driver who is over six feet tall,” or “I don’t want a driver with blue eyes,” the manager would have seen the ridiculousness of the request. He would have recognized it as a bizarre, irrational whim that no business could—or should—honor.

But when she said she didn’t want a Black person, the manager didn’t find it “ridiculous.” He might not have agreed with her, but on some subconscious level, he understood her. In his mind, her racism was a “valid” preference that needed to be managed to save a sale.

This is the core of the problem: In America, discriminating because of color is still not seen as egregious as other forms of absurdity. It is accepted as “just the way of things.” This is why the U.S. cannot bring itself to call slavery a “grave” crime, and why 52 nations (including the UK and much of the EU) chose to abstain from the vote. To them, the global hierarchy that puts Black lives at the bottom is so normalized that they view an attempt to label it a “crime” as a radical inconvenience rather than a moral necessity.

The Economic Instinct: Liability over Liberty

The U.S. government isn’t afraid of a history lesson; they are afraid of an invoice. The UN resolution explicitly links the “crime against humanity” label to reparatory justice. By refusing the label, the U.S. is practicing Liability Management. They are acting as defense attorneys for a bank account built on 400 years of stolen labor.

The Lowe’s manager acted on the same survivalist instinct: “Keep the sale.” In a capitalist system, the fear of a lost sale outweighs the obligation to protect an employee’s soul. The institution calculated that the easiest way to balance the books was to erase the Black man from the equation. This is the Economics of Exclusion. It treats Black humanity as an “operating cost” that must be minimized to ensure the comfort of the “paying” population.

The “Colorblind” Gaslight

To the readers who tell me I am “prolonging racism”: look at the tally. Look at the Virginia driveway.

I am not the one who made the UN vote about race; the U.S. government did when they decided that the “legal” rights of 18th-century enslavers were more important than the “human” rights of 21st-century descendants. I am not the one who made the delivery about race; the customer did when she looked at a veteran employee and saw only a color she wanted to exclude.

You ask me to be “colorblind,” but you are asking me to be blind to the very ledger the world is using to calculate my worth. When you tell me to “move on,” you are asking me to accept a status quo where “Legality” is a shield for “Inhumanity.”

We don’t prolong a fire by pointing at the smoke. We prolong it by pretending the house isn’t burning while the inhabitants are still trapped inside.

A Call to Action: Citizen or Customer?

We have reached a point where we must decide what kind of society we actually want to be. Are we a nation of Customers, where our only “right” is the right to have what we want, regardless of who is crushed in the process? Or are we a nation of Citizens, where our primary obligation is to uphold the inherent dignity of every person?

Here is my challenge to you this week:

1. Audit the “Rights” you claim. The next time you say “I have a right to…” ask yourself if that right requires the erasure or exclusion of someone else’s humanity.
2. Reject the “Liability” Defense. Stop accepting “it’s too expensive” as an excuse for avoiding justice. Justice is never a “cost”—it is an investment in our collective survival.
3. Support the Record. Don’t look away. Read the history that the U.S. government tried to vote into non-existence this week. Acknowledge that the “Decade of Reparations” (2026-2036) isn’t about a handout; it’s about a settlement for a debt that has been accruing interest for four centuries.

I will keep writing. I will keep pointing at the fire. Not because I want to see the house burn, but because I believe we are still capable of building something better—if only we have the courage to admit that the foundation is currently on fire.

Glossary of Terms

• Chattel Slavery: A specific form of enslavement where the enslaved person is legally considered the personal property (chattel) of the owner and can be bought, sold, and inherited.
• Crimes Against Humanity: Widespread or systematic attacks directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack. As of March 2026, the UN explicitly includes the transatlantic slave trade in this definition.
• Economics of Exclusion: A system where discriminatory practices are maintained or ignored because they are perceived to be more “profitable” or “efficient” than the alternative of justice.
• Legality of Inhumanity: The rhetorical and legal defense that an atrocity cannot be punished or repaired if it was considered “legal” under the laws of the perpetrators at the time it occurred.
• Liability Management: In a political context, the strategy of avoiding specific language or legal admissions (like “crime”) to prevent future financial obligations, such as reparations.
• Reparatory Justice: A process that seeks to rectify the systemic harms of the past through a combination of financial restitution, institutional reform, and formal apologies.

Bibliography & Source Notes

Primary Sources

• United Nations General Assembly. (2026, March 25). Resolution on the Transatlantic Slave Trade as a Grave Crime Against Humanity. UN Press Office.
• Negrea, D. (2026). Statement by the Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations regarding Agenda Item 118: Follow-up to the Durban Declaration. U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
• African Union. (2026). Declaration of the Decade of Reparations (2026-2036). AU Assembly of Heads of State.

News Records & Case Studies

• The Washington Post. (2015, August 12). “Lowe’s driver says he was pulled from delivery after customer’s ‘no black drivers’ request.”
• ABC News / WSET-TV. (2015, August 10). Interview with Marcus Bradley: Discrimination in Danville, VA.
• The New York Times. (2026, March 26). “U.S. Joins Minority in Voting Against U.N. Slavery Resolution.”

Theoretical Framework

• Robinson, C. (1983). Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. (Used for the concept of “Racial Capitalism”).

"You can't take freedom for granted."

Sudhir Hazareesingh discusses how the enslaved themselves resisted their oppressors. Podcast with Tanjil Rashid: https://castbox.fm/episode/Has-history-overlooked-the-enslaved-who-fought-for-freedom--|-Sudhir-Hazareesingh-interview-id2050977-id849073538

You may note the absence of the podcast on the New Statesman website: https://www.newstatesman.com/author/tanjilrashid🧶

#property #ownership #slavery #chattelSlavery #history #BlackMastodon #anthropology #podcast #book #bookStodon #Jamaica #Barbados #abolition #resistance

"You can't take freedom for granted."

Sudhir Hazareesingh discusses how the enslaved themselves resisted their oppressors. Podcast with Tanjil Rashid: https://castbox.fm/episode/Has-history-overlooked-the-enslaved-who-fought-for-freedom--|-Sudhir-Hazareesingh-interview-id2050977-id849073538

You may note the absence of the podcast on the New Statesman website: https://www.newstatesman.com/author/tanjilrashid🧶

#property #ownership #slavery #chattelSlavery #history #BlackMastodon #anthropology #podcast #book #bookStodon #Jamaica #Barbados #abolition #resistance

"You can't take freedom for granted."

Sudhir Hazareesingh discusses how the enslaved themselves resisted their oppressors. Podcast with Tanjil Rashid: https://castbox.fm/episode/Has-history-overlooked-the-enslaved-who-fought-for-freedom--|-Sudhir-Hazareesingh-interview-id2050977-id849073538

You may note the absence of the podcast on the New Statesman website: https://www.newstatesman.com/author/tanjilrashid🧶

#property #ownership #slavery #chattelSlavery #history #BlackMastodon #anthropology #podcast #book #bookStodon #Jamaica #Barbados #abolition #resistance

"You can't take freedom for granted."

Sudhir Hazareesingh discusses how the enslaved themselves resisted their oppressors. Podcast with Tanjil Rashid: https://castbox.fm/episode/Has-history-overlooked-the-enslaved-who-fought-for-freedom--|-Sudhir-Hazareesingh-interview-id2050977-id849073538

You may note the absence of the podcast on the New Statesman website: https://www.newstatesman.com/author/tanjilrashid🧶

#property #ownership #slavery #chattelSlavery #history #BlackMastodon #anthropology #podcast #book #bookStodon #Jamaica #Barbados #abolition #resistance

#slavery #chattelslavery #slave #slaves #sweatshop #classwar #wageslave #wageslavery #eattherich #poverty #homeless #humanrights #ausgov #politas

#slavery #chattelslavery #slave #slaves #sweatshop #classwar #wageslave #wageslavery #eattherich #poverty #homeless #humanrights #ausgov #politas

#slavery #chattelslavery #slave #slaves #sweatshop #classwar #wageslave #wageslavery #eattherich #poverty #homeless #humanrights #ausgov #politas

#slavery #chattelslavery #slave #slaves #sweatshop #classwar #wageslave #wageslavery #eattherich #poverty #homeless #humanrights #ausgov #politas

(continued)

from the backcover of the book:

"The forces set in motion by the slave and plantation trades seeped into almost every aspect of the economy and society. In textile mills, iron and copper smelting, steam power, and financial institutions, slavery played a crucial part. Things we might think far removed from the taint of slavery, such as eighteenth-century fashions for indigo-patterned cloth, sweet tea, snuff boxes, mahogany furniture, ceramics and silverware, were intimately connected. Even London’s role as a centre for global finance was partly determined by the slave trade as insurance, financial trading and mortgage markets were developed in the City to promote distant and risky investments in enslaved people."

@bookstodon @histodons 🧶

#book #trade #trading #finance #London #slavery #investements #capitalism #chattelSlavery #deportation

(continued)

from the backcover of the book:

"The forces set in motion by the slave and plantation trades seeped into almost every aspect of the economy and society. In textile mills, iron and copper smelting, steam power, and financial institutions, slavery played a crucial part. Things we might think far removed from the taint of slavery, such as eighteenth-century fashions for indigo-patterned cloth, sweet tea, snuff boxes, mahogany furniture, ceramics and silverware, were intimately connected. Even London’s role as a centre for global finance was partly determined by the slave trade as insurance, financial trading and mortgage markets were developed in the City to promote distant and risky investments in enslaved people."

@bookstodon @histodons 🧶

#book #trade #trading #finance #London #slavery #investements #capitalism #chattelSlavery #deportation

(continued)

from the backcover of the book:

"The forces set in motion by the slave and plantation trades seeped into almost every aspect of the economy and society. In textile mills, iron and copper smelting, steam power, and financial institutions, slavery played a crucial part. Things we might think far removed from the taint of slavery, such as eighteenth-century fashions for indigo-patterned cloth, sweet tea, snuff boxes, mahogany furniture, ceramics and silverware, were intimately connected. Even London’s role as a centre for global finance was partly determined by the slave trade as insurance, financial trading and mortgage markets were developed in the City to promote distant and risky investments in enslaved people."

@bookstodon @histodons 🧶

#book #trade #trading #finance #London #slavery #investements #capitalism #chattelSlavery #deportation

(continued)

from the backcover of the book:

"The forces set in motion by the slave and plantation trades seeped into almost every aspect of the economy and society. In textile mills, iron and copper smelting, steam power, and financial institutions, slavery played a crucial part. Things we might think far removed from the taint of slavery, such as eighteenth-century fashions for indigo-patterned cloth, sweet tea, snuff boxes, mahogany furniture, ceramics and silverware, were intimately connected. Even London’s role as a centre for global finance was partly determined by the slave trade as insurance, financial trading and mortgage markets were developed in the City to promote distant and risky investments in enslaved people."

@bookstodon @histodons 🧶

#book #trade #trading #finance #London #slavery #investements #capitalism #chattelSlavery #deportation

So, will they go straight to a pro-slavery stance or will they slowly introduce #indentured #servitude first?

#slavery #chattelslavery #wageslave #wageslavery

So, will they go straight to a pro-slavery stance or will they slowly introduce #indentured #servitude first?

#slavery #chattelslavery #wageslave #wageslavery

So, will they go straight to a pro-slavery stance or will they slowly introduce #indentured #servitude first?

#slavery #chattelslavery #wageslave #wageslavery

So, will they go straight to a pro-slavery stance or will they slowly introduce #indentured #servitude first?

#slavery #chattelslavery #wageslave #wageslavery

#Capitalism #slavery required white #people to believe in #supremacy and #superiority to accept their deteriorating conditions caused by cheap black #slave #labor
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#video #classwar #society #humans #earth #fascism #capitalism #oppression #repression #racism #statism #chattelslavery #slave #slaves #ausgov #politas #eattherich

#Capitalism #slavery required white #people to believe in #supremacy and #superiority to accept their deteriorating conditions caused by cheap black #slave #labor
https://t.me/syndiegram/4562

#video #classwar #society #humans #earth #fascism #capitalism #oppression #repression #racism #statism #chattelslavery #slave #slaves #ausgov #politas #eattherich

#Capitalism #slavery required white #people to believe in #supremacy and #superiority to accept their deteriorating conditions caused by cheap black #slave #labor
https://t.me/syndiegram/4562

#video #classwar #society #humans #earth #fascism #capitalism #oppression #repression #racism #statism #chattelslavery #slave #slaves #ausgov #politas #eattherich

Black men picking #cotton as "#free" #labor in #Cummings #Prison in #Arkansas feels wrong

#video #classwar #chattelslavery #slavery #fascism #oppression #repression #humanrights #usa #america #slave #slaves #ausgov #politas

Black men picking #cotton as "#free" #labor in #Cummings #Prison in #Arkansas feels wrong

#video #classwar #chattelslavery #slavery #fascism #oppression #repression #humanrights #usa #america #slave #slaves #ausgov #politas

Black men picking #cotton as "#free" #labor in #Cummings #Prison in #Arkansas feels wrong

#video #classwar #chattelslavery #slavery #fascism #oppression #repression #humanrights #usa #america #slave #slaves #ausgov #politas

Black men picking #cotton as "#free" #labor in #Cummings #Prison in #Arkansas feels wrong

#video #classwar #chattelslavery #slavery #fascism #oppression #repression #humanrights #usa #america #slave #slaves #ausgov #politas

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves - Harriet Tubman

#quote #quotes #classwar #ausgov #politas #chattelslavery #capitalism #fascism #antislavery #antiwork #fuckwork #antinazi #antizionist

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves - Harriet Tubman

#quote #quotes #classwar #ausgov #politas #chattelslavery #capitalism #fascism #antislavery #antiwork #fuckwork #antinazi #antizionist

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves - Harriet Tubman

#quote #quotes #classwar #ausgov #politas #chattelslavery #capitalism #fascism #antislavery #antiwork #fuckwork #antinazi #antizionist

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves - Harriet Tubman

#quote #quotes #classwar #ausgov #politas #chattelslavery #capitalism #fascism #antislavery #antiwork #fuckwork #antinazi #antizionist

The Recucklican mind could never understand this.
Also #socialism is when #Facebook #censors your posts. 🥴

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The Recucklican mind could never understand this.
Also #socialism is when #Facebook #censors your posts. 🥴

#video #usa #america #ausgov #politas #fascism #capitalism #oppression #repression #statism #classwar #slavery #chattelslavery #wageslave #wageslavery #bigots #hypocrites

The Recucklican mind could never understand this.
Also #socialism is when #Facebook #censors your posts. 🥴

#video #usa #america #ausgov #politas #fascism #capitalism #oppression #repression #statism #classwar #slavery #chattelslavery #wageslave #wageslavery #bigots #hypocrites

The Recucklican mind could never understand this.
Also #socialism is when #Facebook #censors your posts. 🥴

#video #usa #america #ausgov #politas #fascism #capitalism #oppression #repression #statism #classwar #slavery #chattelslavery #wageslave #wageslavery #bigots #hypocrites

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#slavery #history #classwar #video #humanrights #chattelslavery #slaves #slave #capitalism #fascism #oppression #repression #racism #colonialism #ausgov #politas

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Eat the rich!

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#classwar #exploitation #extortion #ausgov #politas #society #humans #billionaires #australia #eattherich #wageslave #wageslavery #slavery #chattelslavery