Bridging the Understanding Gap and Building Racial Cohesion
History Has A Voice
The researchers at Culturally and Racially Intelligent Literacy understand that people learn in different ways and as the saying goes, "a picture is worth 1000 words." This page seeks to take you on a visual journey through historical and present day race relations in the United States of America.
Slave Ship Planking
Rescued Slaves: HMS Daphne
Native American Genocide
Classified Ad for Slave Sales
Standard Whipping Scars
Normalization of Mob Violence
Standard Practice of Lynching
Black Codes of Reconstruction
Sharecropping Process
Jim Crow Laws
A Call to Maintain White Supremacy
Burning of Black Wall Street: Tulsa, OK
Japanese Hate Propaganda
Targeting of Jewish People
Targeting Japanese
Japanese Interment Camp
Japanese Boys within Internment Camps
Japanese Negative Propaganda
Jewish Jokes For Sale
Segregation Sign
Extremism and hate are strong fabrics of the American legacy. Hate led by greed arrived on what we now call American soil with the British colonist looking for a new beginning. These radical views which were seemingly good, came with old habits and lived oppression. Thus, the settlers became oppressors.
This mindset and approach to life continued to grow as the realization of economic wealth and family legacy could be gained on the backs of "less worthy" people, if seen as people at all.
Because of history and the freshness of rebellion, when America wanted to take a different approach to build wealth and seeing humanity, the South revolted to maintain the status quo. This action in itself set the course of present-day racial, and ethnic discrimination. It allowed cells of hate to remain, the rot to grow deeper, and the entitlement based on pigmentation to elevate into elitism.
The same hate that put Natives on reservations, Africans in chains, and Asians in the mines, have prevailed in American society and revealed its insidiousness to the majority on January 6, 2021. The evil shown on this day has been a constant towards minorities of this country. The hate spewed, was the rot finally revealed.
-Dr. Andrea Peters
