Tagged: discussing race April 8, 2015 “Thomas Jefferson was fully aware of what the long-term impact of enslavement would be on white people and black people and everyone in between that were confused. He talked about the horror associated with what slave masters did and that their children imitated the behavior among their friends and younger children that were enslaved. And that that built into a sickness on the part of Europeans and hatred and antipathy on the part of Africans. [Jefferson’s] greatest fear is that it would end in [the] extermination of one or the other race. He says because God cannot side with us — meaning Europeans — in this contest. He cannot side with us, which means God will side with them. He says, ‘I tremble for my country when I consider that God is just and that His justice cannot sleep forever.’ So Thomas Jefferson not only knew at the time, the wrongness associated [with slavery] and recognized the long-term impact that it would it would have. These are his words — I’m not making this up. But somehow, it gets absent of the curriculum. Somehow, it gets removed and we talk about all the other things that he was able to expound upon. And I think that if we’re talking about healing, if we’re talking about a response, we have to look and understand historically, how the injury transmitted itself [and] what it looks like then [and] now and then contrast that with Africa.” — Dr. Joy De Gruy
April 8, 2015 “Thomas Jefferson was fully aware of what the long-term impact of enslavement would be on white people and black people and everyone in between that were confused. He talked about the horror associated with what slave masters did and that their children imitated the behavior among their friends and younger children that were enslaved. And that that built into a sickness on the part of Europeans and hatred and antipathy on the part of Africans. [Jefferson’s] greatest fear is that it would end in [the] extermination of one or the other race. He says because God cannot side with us — meaning Europeans — in this contest. He cannot side with us, which means God will side with them. He says, ‘I tremble for my country when I consider that God is just and that His justice cannot sleep forever.’ So Thomas Jefferson not only knew at the time, the wrongness associated [with slavery] and recognized the long-term impact that it would it would have. These are his words — I’m not making this up. But somehow, it gets absent of the curriculum. Somehow, it gets removed and we talk about all the other things that he was able to expound upon. And I think that if we’re talking about healing, if we’re talking about a response, we have to look and understand historically, how the injury transmitted itself [and] what it looks like then [and] now and then contrast that with Africa.” — Dr. Joy De Gruy
Me Against Iniquity: Understanding the Complexities of Global White Supremacy (Racism) Through The Eyes of an Unapologetically BLACK Intellectual 