Liquor&Spice: My Rape Culture: "Freedmen aren't Cherokees/Choctaws/Chickasaws/Creeks/Seminoles!"
This is what anti-Black, racist, misogyny looks like. Also rape.
From “Tribal Kulturkampf: The Role of Race Ideology in Constructing Native American Identity” by CD Pratt:
[60] Sexual encounters between Native American slave masters and African slave women were documented by the…
Where were the black men in all of this? Celibate? Impotent? If everyone has Indian blood then the majority of black women couldn’t be married to black men and giving birth to children from those relationships, right?
[60] Sexual encounters between Native American slave masters and African slave women were documented by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1866 wherein he reported, “There is a large number of young freedwomen who have from one to eight children, born while they were slaves, and who never had husbands. Many of these children are mixed bloods … .” J. H. Johnston, Documentary Evidence of the Relations of Negroes and Indians, 14 J. OF NEGRO HISTORY 21, 42 (Jan. 1929).
It would be nice if they said what they mean by “large number”, is that 10? 100? 1000? I also don’t see where it says “evidence of rape”, could it also be “evidence of common law marriages”?
Rick Kittles is one of the last speakers at the Descendants conference. When he steps up to address the crowd, he speaks briefly about the underlying science. He describes how African genealogy is relatively easy to trace because of the population’s high number of polymorphisms - genetic variations unique to a particular group. Then he gets down to business. He shows charts indicating that African ancestry in the 95 Freedmen he tested ranged from 4 to 76 percent, while European ancestry varied from 0 to 62 percent. “Native American was surprising,” Kittles says as he presses the slide clicker to bring up the figures that everyone’s waiting for. The range of Indian blood was from 0 to 30 percent, for an average of just 6 percent - almost identical to an East Coast African-American population.
The chatter in the crowd stops. Kittles is telling attendees that, genetically, they are no more Indian than blacks in New York City or Baltimore.
The same as any east coast black person? The ones who were never slaves of Indians? The ones who freely intermarried with Indians and didn’t have generation after generation of Indian rapists coming after them? That’s odd.
What I don’t get is why you would be so determined to claim this vile disgusting heritage? You keep insisting it’s not money, so not about compensation. It’s just about being recognized as Indian, yes? You want to “proudly” tell your children about the rapist side of the family?
While I am frustrated, I am mostly asking seriously and not sarcastic. What I am seeing about black women being unrapeable, is white laws and white culture. I want to know is there something specific to the Cherokee/five civilized tribes culture that if a black woman said no, an Indian man wouldn’t be rebuffed, even if he was her owner. Is it at all possible when a Cherokee man bought a black woman, he thought he was buying a wife? Back in those days there were things like that, and arranged marriages, even amongst the whites. So there were few women who would go into sexual relationships with full consent, even white women.
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this “what is this rape you speak of and whats alot? 10? 100? 1000? i need receipts!” shit put me over the fuckin edge....
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I’m not even going to get into how much this conversation is based on ignoring the long history of indian enslavement.
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trying to engage with you on this or...other topic, because your incredible contempt,...
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Are you reading anything anyone says? At all. No one said rape was the only way, we said black women who were enslaved...
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No, you aren’t listening. I and other natives are telling you that blood isn’t as important as you think, that shared...
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fresmouthgoddess...We could be. But my point wasn’t really about that. It’s about
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The black slave owners from NO some of them were from Haiti. The children of mixed raced marriage who had all the riches...
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This is a great example of what I mean when I say that Black people asserting our existence and demanding our history...
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all of this? Celibate? Impotent? If everyone has...blood then the majority
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