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One of the Outside Groups Inciting Violence in Ferguson: The Revolutionary Communist Party

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Scottish Dragon8/19/2014 12:50:58 pm PDT

re: #330 OhNoZombies!

This Anglo-Saxon stuff really bugs the shit out of me…
I wasn’t going to say anything, but here it goes:
During the past year, I’ve done an extensive search on my family history. To make a really long story short, I’ve traced the bulk of my heritage to England and Wales, with just a sprinkle of African for flavor. I even have place and family names and connections.

But I don’t get to claim the European ones, only the poor,nameless African women who were kidnapped and brutalized. Of course when I do that, I’m a racist and hate America…

Some of my ancestors were among the first settlers in Virginia.
I, however, having brown skin and all, am not considered a true American, by some, even though my ancestors were here before, there was an America, and fought for America, in every conflict we’ve had as a country…

You know what? Fuckit. I need more coffee.

Violence against women was the universal constant of the slave trade (both Islamic and Christian) in the 16th and 17th centuries.

A friend of mine with the last name of Mozingo found recently her first ancestor in America was an African slave who married a white woman in Virgina in the late 1600’s. By the time of the Revolution, Mozingo family members were all listed as white in county census records.

However, African slave women and Catholic Irish slave women (often kidnapped during Cromwell’s administration) were subject to repeated rape, forced breeding programs and vile conditions that are unimaginable today. African slave women raped by white masters, and Irish slave women (often nuns forced from cloisters by anti-Catholic forces) raped by pretty much anybody, including other slaves.

Horrible, horrible stuff.

There are several documented accounts of young Gaelic speaking “black” children in Barbados in the 1700’s meeting Irish sailers for the first time and remarking that “white Irishmen” sure looked funny, since they considered themselves to be Irish. Rightfully so, I think.