'White' flight stems from subliminal guilt and a desire to have an unjust advantage

My opponent has not done a thorough enough job at detailing the true account of indentured servitude in the development of what would become the United States. "Very quickly it was easy to tell who the indentured servant was since they were the only black people in America." There were 'black' people in North America before the 1400's and 1600's In his article "Before Columbus: How Africans Brought Civilization to America" Garikai Chengu states, "The strongest evidence of African presence in America before Columbus comes from the pen of Columbus himself. In 1920, a renowned American historian and linguist, Leo Weiner of Harvard University, in his book, Africa and the discovery of America, explained how Columbus noted in his journal that Native Americans had confirmed that "black skinned people had come from the south-east in boats, trading in gold-tipped spears." [1] According to the abstract of Columbus's log made by Bartolom" de las Casas, the purpose of Columbus"s third voyage was to test both the claims of King John II of Portugal that "canoes had been found which set out from the coast of Guinea [West Africa] and sailed to the west with merchandise" as well as the claims of the native inhabitants of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola that "from the south and the southeast had come black people whose spears were made of a metal called guan"n...from which it was found that of 32 parts: 18 were gold, 6 were silver, and 8 copper." [6] Also, archaeological evidence of what most would consider to be 'black' peoples can be found in the form of the Olmec heads. African and Native American interaction began even before Europeans brought African slaves to the Americas. Free Africans reached the shores of the American continent as traders and settlers long before Europeans arrived. In 1975, 2 Negroid skeletons were found in the U.S. Virgin Islands. One wore a pre-Columbian Indian wrist band. They were found in layers dated to about A.D. 1250. In 1974, Polish craniologists revealed that no fewer than 13.5% of the skeletons from the pre-Columbian Olmec cemetery of Tlatilco were Negroid. [2] The cover-up and blatant lying about melaninated contributions and cultures has been well documented. This cover-up (burning libraries, claiming Egyptians were 'white', saying melaninated people who would be considered 'black' by modern day racist standards didn't arrive in America until slavery, etc.) These tactics are used to propagate the myth that melaninated people, especially those now falsely categorized as 'black', contributed nothing to civilization. In fact terms such as black, indian, negroid,etc. were developed to keep people who have been displaced by processes such as colonialism from reclaiming their culture. These cover-ups are also used to authenticate the myth of 'white' superiority and validate or corroborate the whole racial delusion. The presence of 'Africoid' peoples in America before Columbus was also documented by Ivan Van Sertima in his book They came before Columbus. [5] In the case of indentured servitude, there was no division based on color of skin until Bacon's rebellion. In this rebellion, Wikipedia states "Indentured servants both black and white joined the frontier rebellion. Seeing them united in a cause alarmed the ruling class. Historians believe the rebellion hastened the hardening of racial lines associated with slavery, as a way for planters and the colony to control some of the poor." [3] Indentured servitude was a labor system where by young people paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years. It was widely employed in the 18th century in the British colonies in North America and elsewhere. [4] While I agree Christianity was used more as a political and economic tool rather than a spiritual practice, Christianity was used in unison with the wealthy class to give credence to slavery and other forms of subjugation. Indeed, Columbus' journeys and actions in the already occupied 'New World' were 'blessed' by the Pope. This merely illustrates and emphasizes the extent the many will go to substantiate a profitable lie. The Puritans and Quakers who allegedly came to America for religious freedom brutally imposed their religions on the indigenous people they encountered. The development of the racial divide just moved it from a false belief of religious superiority to a fabricated racial one. As for the humorous nature of the citations I used, I think it was Shakespeare who stated, " In jest, there is truth". Mark Twain also quipped, "Humor is the good natured side of a truth." To state that information is less credible if it is on a blog suggests the formal media does not have its deficiencies. Journalism, I suppose, in in the eye of the beholder. As most know, journalist and broadcasters have always served as means of spewing or excreting propaganda. It is up to those who digest the information to deem what is truth, lie or jest. As the subliminal origins of 'white' flight do not meet the mainstream media's 'platform', one will not see many stories dealing with the issue in the news. The Suein Hwang article was from the Wall Street Journal http://www.wsj.com... I view personal accounts, in whatever format, to be more credible and probably more personal and genuine than news accounts given by programmers that probably have more of an ulterior motive when dealing with more controversial subjects. In her article "White Flight & Structural Racism" Jessie Daniels states, "My personal narrative of my father"s decision to engage in white flight in the mid-1970s is part of the larger picture of "whitopias" that Benjamin refers to in his book. The kind of decision that my father made about relocating our family to an apartheid-like, privileged suburb of Houston is one that, some thirty years later, continues to play itself out across the U.S., in the north, east, south and west." [8] "It"s realizing that as a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They"re heavy. That line is acknowledging the guilt that I have for not bringing those issues to the surface, and the privilege that keeps me comfortable, whether I acknowledge it or not. This is a statement rapper Macklemore made about the following lyrics from the song A Wake: "Fighting for a freedom that my people stole...Don't wanna make all my white fans uncomfortable "But you don't even have a effin' song for radio...Why you out here talking race, trying to save the effin' globe?" Don't get involved if the cause isn't mine...White privilege, white guilt, at the same damm time" [7] In the book Flipping the Script: White Privilege and Community Building Maggie Potapchuk admits, "What gets in the way for whites to recognize this concept of white privilege is guilt and shame. On some basic level most whites understand and acknowledge that people of color over the years have been treated unfairly. We have different explanations, based on our worldviews, life experiences, analyses of power, racism and oppression, knowledge of history, and, often, the amount of contact we have with people of color. But guilt and shame many times cloud the explanation because it is difficult to accept that one"s attitudes and behavior caused another person distress and disadvantage. It is even more shocking to think how one"s government and community institutions have created and reinforced these oppressive policies and laws. Part of understanding white privilege is knowing how just having white skin has resulted in accumulating so many advantages, and understanding how it affects what we own and the opportunities we have been given over the years. [9] In the article "Racism is prevalent, persisting and perpetually growing, experts warn" written by Pam Douglas and Louie Rosella/D"Souza it is stated, "White flight" is just that, the experts say, describing it as the phenomenon of members of the once majority population uprooting and moving to towns and cities where they are once again in the majority. It is a racist reaction to "others taking over," because the context paints the "others" in a negative way. "It"s people making personal choices where they want to live, versus wanting to move out of a community where they have spent generations because now the "others" are taking over. And the term is "the others are taking over,"" Naik says. "I cannot continue to raise my child there, I cannot send my child to the school because a large number are not even of my sub-group, and therefore I want to move. That is racism, and you can"t call it by any other name." I am copying and pasting, at this point, to give personal accounts. As I am not 'white', I choose to let those who identify as such describe and define their 'white' guilt. Sources: http://www.globalresearch.ca... [1] http://www.colorq.org... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org... [3] http://en.wikipedia.org... [4] http://thehouseofsankofa.com... [5] http://en.wikipedia.org... [6] http://genius.com... [7] http://www.racismreview.com... [8] http://www.mpassociates.us... [9