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Why Do Activists Say Police Began As Slave Patrols?
It logically doesn’t follow
Last year I wrote a piece about systemic racism.
I linked the term systemic racism to the term institutional racism, a term coined by Stokely Carmichael. I pointed out Carmichael stated institutional racism and colonialism were one and the same. However, Carmichael also stated the analogy wasn’t perfect and gave examples as to why the analogy wasn’t sufficient. I simply agreed with Carmichael but went further and claimed that systemic racism was based on an inadequate analogy.
Well, I posted that piece on another platform and got a response.
The responder suggested that I expand my knowledge of colonialism in order to take into account the “full psychological, social, and cultural dimensions rather than superficial political economics”. I was also instructed to look into the term “internal colony/colonization” coined by Robert Blauner.
So, I followed through.
In a 1969 paper called: Internal Colonialism and Ghetto Revolt, Blauner suggested that during the late 1950s black militants began to identify with African nations and other colonized people. As a result, black militants saw the U.S. as a colonial power and concluded black people were colonized in American ghettos.