Has anyone read "History of White people"?

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LOL @it being the true mark of beauty then covering their faces with tons of makeup and surgeries.
 
I spent how many years in school being forced to read about crackas history

U think I'm just gonna lounge around and read about they history again?

Hell muthafuckin no
 
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KingJamal;4678027 said:
I spent how many years in school being forced to read about crackas history

U think I'm just gonna lounge around and read about they history again?

Hell muthafuckin no

Lol, it isn't about whites romanticizing their history this is real unadulterated history and it all makes sense why they seem so desperate about whiteness lol.

 
"A mind-expanding and myth-destroying exploration of notions of white race—not merely a skin color but also a signal of power, prestige, and beauty to be withheld and granted selectively

Ever since the Enlightenment, race theory and its inevitable partner, racism, have followed a crooked road, constructed by dominant peoples to justify their domination of others. Filling a huge gap in historical literature that long focused on the non-white, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, tracing not only the invention of the idea of race but also the frequent worship of “whiteness” for economic, social, scientific, and political ends.

Our story begins in Greek and Roman antiquity, where the concept of race did not exist, only geography and the opportunity to conquer and enslave others. Not until the eighteenth century did an obsession with whiteness flourish, with the German invention of the notion of Caucasian beauty. This theory made northern Europeans into “Saxons,” “Anglo-Saxons,” and “Teutons,” envisioned as uniquely handsome natural rulers.

Here was a worldview congenial to northern Europeans bent on empire. There followed an explosion of theories of race, now focusing on racial temperament as well as skin color. Spread by such intellectuals as Madame de Stael and Thomas Carlyle, white race theory soon reached North America with a vengeance. Its chief spokesman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, did the most to label Anglo-Saxons—icons of beauty and virtue—as the only true Americans. It was an ideal that excluded not only blacks but also all ethnic groups not of Protestant, northern European background. The Irish and Native Americans were out and, later, so were the Chinese, Jews, Italians, Slavs, and Greeks—all deemed racially alien. Did immigrations threaten the very existence of America? Americans were assumed to be white, but who among poor immigrants could become truly American? A tortured and convoluted series of scientific explorations developed—theories intended to keep Anglo-Saxons at the top: the ever-popular measurement of skulls, the powerful eugenics movement, and highly biased intelligence tests—all designed to keep working people out and down.

As Painter reveals, power—supported by economics, science, and politics—continued to drive exclusionary notions of whiteness until, deep into the twentieth century, political realities enlarged the category of truly American.

A story filled with towering historical figures, The History of White People forcefully reminds us that the concept of one white race is a recent invention. The meaning, importance, and realty of this all-too-human thesis of race have buckled under the weight of a long and rich unfolding of events. 70 illustrations"

This is what's its about. Just read the top lazy readers

 
Ajackson17;4678045 said:
KingJamal;4678027 said:
I spent how many years in school being forced to read about crackas history

U think I'm just gonna lounge around and read about they history again?

Hell muthafuckin no

Lol, it isn't about whites romanticizing their history this is real unadulterated history and it all makes sense why they seem so desperate about whiteness lol.

Plenty of us already know. Even educated white people know their ancestors where the offspring of Africans with albinism who migrated north (Europe) because the sun was deadly. etc., Plenty already know this.
 
NoCompetition;4678061 said:
Ajackson17;4678045 said:
KingJamal;4678027 said:
I spent how many years in school being forced to read about crackas history

U think I'm just gonna lounge around and read about they history again?

Hell muthafuckin no

Lol, it isn't about whites romanticizing their history this is real unadulterated history and it all makes sense why they seem so desperate about whiteness lol.

Plenty of us already know. Even educated white people know their ancestors where the offspring of Africans with albinism who migrated north (Europe) because the sun was deadly. etc., Plenty already know this.

Not enough lol in my opinion

 
NoCompetition;4678061 said:
Ajackson17;4678045 said:
KingJamal;4678027 said:
I spent how many years in school being forced to read about crackas history

U think I'm just gonna lounge around and read about they history again?

Hell muthafuckin no

Lol, it isn't about whites romanticizing their history this is real unadulterated history and it all makes sense why they seem so desperate about whiteness lol.

Plenty of us already know. Even educated white people know their ancestors where the offspring of Africans with albinism who migrated north (Europe) because the sun was deadly. etc., Plenty already know this.

lolol so if we are albinos why dont we hav red eyes and why can we go into the sun

and what are asians ancestors?
 
over_kill;4678702 said:
The White race is the most succefull race of people to ever walk the planet.

You should make that into a thread in GnS

I will have to kindly disagree with you sir or madam....The black race were forced to live in america through slaver...you already know the rest of the story....lived through lynchings, hangings, Jim Crow LAws, segregation, police brutality, racism, un-equal opportunities....and now look at us...a nigga in the white house running this bitch!

What possible struggles did white people have to go through in order to make it...please enlighten me
 

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