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The 400-Year Holocaust: White America’s Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide - and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory
The 400-Year Holocaust: White America’s Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide - and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory examines and discusses factions of the legal history of anti-blackness and Whiteness through colonialism and the United States, and its impacts on present-day America. It centers anti-blackness as the core tenet of "racism" in White America and amplifies its relationship to the inherent "value" of Whiteness (i.e., White identity, White culture, White institutions, etc.). The text repositions and critically examines four core White American economic, moral, socio-cultural, and ideological institutions: human sex trafficking, rape, pedophilia, and violence (murder).
Furthermore, it positions racism as a disease/illness (i.e., psychosis, psychopathy, sociopathy, etc.), rather than a mere "social construct".
Furthermore, it positions racism as a disease/illness (i.e., psychosis, psychopathy, sociopathy, etc.), rather than a mere "social construct".
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295 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 11, 2022
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November 28, 2022
Dante D. King’s The 400-Year Holocaust: White America’s Legal, Psychopathic, and Sociopathic Black Genocide - and the Revolt Against Critical Race Theory, edited by Marguerite Mallory, is a bitter pill to swallow.
The first 40 pages and subsequent rebukes peppering King’s book left me confused and hesitant, if not reactively skeptical. Parts and tones of Steve Zolno’s Guide to Living in a Democracy do the same thing, but for different reasons.
“DEAR BLACK PEOPLE.” Page i. Ok. Am I an eavesdropper or ally? “I am not attempting to convince any non-Black person…especially not whites …to agree with me. Such an act would be futile.” (?) “I will not debate this book’s perspectives,” but “a non-Black reader,” “will also likely want to debate long-established facts.” No, actually. I think facts are facts, too.
When he starts including those facts -- then I get engaged, want to hear more and act.
His understanding, explanation of and specific references to the social, legal and psychological establishment of American Anti-Blackness empowering White Supremacy from Colonial 1619 to the present are spectacular historical game-changers; his scholarship outstanding. The relatedness of land, money, labor and Black=Slave=de-humanized=sexual/physical “property” he explicates step-by-step is diabolical, horrifying, immense. And all perfectly “legal.”
I believe few Americans know the details of this “genocidal agenda and its impacts (that) have persisted for more than 400 years. It remains normalized in American culture.” “In the eyes of the law, Whites had total sovereignty over Black bodies.” True. All traditional and institutionalized in (dominant) White Culture.
He keeps throwing in “always,” “never,” “The unwillingness to see.” “The core of White morality,” “embedded into the fiber of American culture,” and things like these four sentences that are both true and false at the same time: “We get murdered repeatedly by the same people but are not allowed to be rageful. Most Whites know this, at least intellectually, if not emotionally. They know. They just do not care.”
Even after witnessing Police Officer Derek Chauvin murdering George Perry Floyd? Really? “Know” that viscerally, but “Not care?”
WS forces are digging in ever deeper against “Critical Race Theory,” which is no more than accurate history of slavery, Jim Crow and segregation; denying and attacking that “race” is an “intersectional social construct” and that “Anti-Black laws, institutions, practices and mores of yester-years continue to permeate throughout current American life and culture exclusively to benefit White folks and at the detriment of Black folks.” True.
This has erupted from the subterranean realms of denial. Admit thoroughly that it happened, is happening and will continue to happen unless we all make deep and vast changes. Mentally, physically, emotionally, socially and legally. Paired with Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, her newer Nice Racism and classics of James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass and others, King’s book and workshops can spur multilateral action.
The first 40 pages and subsequent rebukes peppering King’s book left me confused and hesitant, if not reactively skeptical. Parts and tones of Steve Zolno’s Guide to Living in a Democracy do the same thing, but for different reasons.
“DEAR BLACK PEOPLE.” Page i. Ok. Am I an eavesdropper or ally? “I am not attempting to convince any non-Black person…especially not whites …to agree with me. Such an act would be futile.” (?) “I will not debate this book’s perspectives,” but “a non-Black reader,” “will also likely want to debate long-established facts.” No, actually. I think facts are facts, too.
When he starts including those facts -- then I get engaged, want to hear more and act.
His understanding, explanation of and specific references to the social, legal and psychological establishment of American Anti-Blackness empowering White Supremacy from Colonial 1619 to the present are spectacular historical game-changers; his scholarship outstanding. The relatedness of land, money, labor and Black=Slave=de-humanized=sexual/physical “property” he explicates step-by-step is diabolical, horrifying, immense. And all perfectly “legal.”
I believe few Americans know the details of this “genocidal agenda and its impacts (that) have persisted for more than 400 years. It remains normalized in American culture.” “In the eyes of the law, Whites had total sovereignty over Black bodies.” True. All traditional and institutionalized in (dominant) White Culture.
He keeps throwing in “always,” “never,” “The unwillingness to see.” “The core of White morality,” “embedded into the fiber of American culture,” and things like these four sentences that are both true and false at the same time: “We get murdered repeatedly by the same people but are not allowed to be rageful. Most Whites know this, at least intellectually, if not emotionally. They know. They just do not care.”
Even after witnessing Police Officer Derek Chauvin murdering George Perry Floyd? Really? “Know” that viscerally, but “Not care?”
WS forces are digging in ever deeper against “Critical Race Theory,” which is no more than accurate history of slavery, Jim Crow and segregation; denying and attacking that “race” is an “intersectional social construct” and that “Anti-Black laws, institutions, practices and mores of yester-years continue to permeate throughout current American life and culture exclusively to benefit White folks and at the detriment of Black folks.” True.
This has erupted from the subterranean realms of denial. Admit thoroughly that it happened, is happening and will continue to happen unless we all make deep and vast changes. Mentally, physically, emotionally, socially and legally. Paired with Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, her newer Nice Racism and classics of James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass and others, King’s book and workshops can spur multilateral action.
February 6, 2022
Thankful for the voice and scholarship presented in this book which tackles the huge job of laying out the clear intention of White supremacy and anti-blackness from the very first days of the founding of this country and contextualizing it's ongoing impact and existence in the Black community. A strong effort to re-place the issue inn the shoulders of White so-called society and removed it from the burden of Black people (off not remove, because he's can this ongoing burden be removed, then remind the community it truly is not you (Black people), it's them (White people).
Whether it's your first book in the subject or a refresher after many readings, take the time to hear this unique voice.
Whether it's your first book in the subject or a refresher after many readings, take the time to hear this unique voice.
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