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Tuesday, October 10, 2017 3:29 PM
System of white supremacy
• System that tries to program you to avoid any solidarity with
people of color
• System in which the colonial ruling class realized it faced
rebellion
○ English workers and african slaves
• Set up a system of law which stigmatized and punished people
of color
• Parallel- nationalism
○ People thinking they are the best
• System evolves
○ Rulers have to keep modifying the system
Reconstruction 1865-1877
• Reconstruct southern society through democratic nonracist
laws
• People became active
• Racialized class struggle
○ Freed men vs planter class
§ Freed= emancipated americans
§ To be truly emancipated they needed economic
independence
§ Goal was to be self sufficient farmers
§ Problem they faced= former slave masters still
owned the land and tools
§ Freed man agitated for land reform
§ The planter class knew that the planter class would
lose land and no one would work for them because
labor force was now working for themselves
§ Emancipation in civil war involved the laborers not
the means of production
® Preventing people from attending elections
® Voting fraud
□ White supremacy ideology
□ Made a deal with federal government
® If you take your troops out of the south we will let
northern capitalists have land for cheap
® Planter class was fighting for its economic existence
® Planter class could use its terrorism unchecked
® Planter class won