Does Slavery Still Impact Modern U.S. Politics? | Behind the Book with Maya Sen & Matthew Blackwell
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- Despite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative. Southerners are more likely to support Republican candidates, gun rights, and the death penalty, and southern whites harbor higher levels of racial resentment than whites in other parts of the country. Why haven’t these sentiments evolved or changed? Deep Roots shows that the entrenched political and racial views of contemporary white southerners are a direct consequence of the region’s slaveholding history, which continues to shape economic, political, and social spheres. Today, southern whites who live in areas once reliant on slavery-compared to areas that were not-are more racially hostile and less amenable to policies that could promote black progress.
Maya Sen is a political scientist and Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Sen writes on issues involving the political economy of U.S. race relations, law and politics, and statistical methods.
Matthew Blackwell is an Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University and an affiliate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He studies political methodology, with a focus on dynamic causal inference, missing data, panel data, and social network analysis.
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Thank you Harvard Kennedy School for this fascinating video. The influence of slavery in politics has been discussed in detail. It is really great!
thanks!!
I know this is a year old, but please, to anyone reading this, look up which party fought for slavery in the U.S. during the Civil War, which established the KKK after, and which one supported separate but equal during Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement. Also, which Party opposed these acts. And, no, I don't mean ondividual citizen's veliefs during these times since there were many differing beliefs of people who supported and opposed these acts then. I mean the established political Parties of those times.
Please remember, I will respond to respectful responses to this post. You can give a based response with logical reasoning, but ifvyou just want to troll then I will not respond. I'm not here to argue with people who just want attention. But, please feel free to give a heated but logical argument in response. I will listen to any viewpoint.
There are more slaves in the world now than ever before. The battles today are about a demand for privilege, not rights. It’s ridiculous.
So having privileges is a bad thing? Since when?
We all know and understand that slavery still exist today this is just pointing out that fact that slavery still has its clutches in American society. You don’t have to gaslight black people by bringing up other enslaved individuals. Jewish people are still dealing with the aftermath of the Holocaust no body questions them, colonization still affects indigenous people in the US and no one questions them. Why is it that when black people are the topic of conversation everyone wants us to be quiet?
Modern Slavery impacts ALL :D
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(Racial Ethnicity and The Civil Community)
The fact is undeniable that we as mankind have different racial backgrounds and all of us share the same genetic bases no matter what race are we which is another undeniable fact related to our existence on this planet .
Racial authenticity is everyone's right because it holds many personal values to each and every one of us but the civil community is something else it's basically the relation between a person and the society in general, therefore a civil community can be defined as ''a smaller branch of the civil society such as the workforce community , the households community and all sorts of social communities .
According to a region's bio geographic nature there could be some differences within the civil society which forms an internal civil community instead of a wider range civilization and we see that in many socially isolated nations such as China and India for example, meaning that everyone in China and India is Chinese or Indian but they still have cultural differences among them as one nation , but China has managed to get over that cultural gap and turned it into a positive factor in the benefit of its nation's common good , some other countries in a similar situation haven't figured that out yet , so basically I'm talking about multicultural societies and widely open communities .
How to overcome racial obstacles that might affect civil communities in a negative way ?
The answer remains in how do people understand their civil rights! Regardless of the race the color , diversity or the belief everyone is suppose to be constitutionally equal as long as they hold the same citizenship and I'm not saying who's not a citizen doesn't have civil rights but a citizenship gives it's holder some privileges which is complete legitimacy, yet civil rights has an international base which applies on everyone no matter where they are and I'm not talking about the exceptions at this point .
Once we get to understand our civil rights we shall learn how to respect racial authenticities and treat each other on bases of common grounds , only then people will be able to create a healthy environment for a productive civil community which aims for the higher benefit of the common good , but if people hold back because of racial and diversity issues then (social circles) are going to replace civil communities and a very slow progress shall be the only logical outcome of the situation .
Who is perfect ? Who is not human ? and therefore people shouldn't define themselves by their race people should define themselves by their actions .
Finally talking about actions, what is the source of wellbeing ? do we have a clear picture and a complete understanding of our wellbeing ?
These are all very important questions only we can answer if we think about it .
Well you've sure been doing a lot of thinking about it, whew, that was a little tough to follow. So first off, China has managed to get over that cultural gap!!?? The have hundreds of thousands of people locked in interment camps, they call "re-education centers". The majority are Muslim Uyghurs, but there are some Christians and a few other religious minorities, all held without charge or trial, outside any legal doctrines they normally follow. As of 2020 it's believed they've sent appx 1.8million to these camps, which constitutes the largest-scale arbitrary detention of ethnic and religious minorities since World War II. There are hundreds who have been held there and later escaped China, and have drawn pictures and all of them described it the same way, bondage, torture, "bondage torture" rape, killings, starvation. 40 countries have called for them to stop, and you call that doing a good job of uniting a country despite diversity?? Sheeeeeesh.
After that it was difficult to follow all the civility, societies, communities and racial authenticities, but it sounds like a drawn out way, with lots of extra verbiage, to say just treat people as people, and civilly, and we can worry about racial differences and stuff once we get society running smoothly. You say people shouldn't define themselves by race, only their actions, (sounds very similar to MLK words that people love to quote, omitting what he says right after that), that's great and all for a slogan or bumper sticker, but when the country you live in, kidnapped your ancestors, enslaved them, erased their culture and heritage, and then after freeing them, still defines them and you by your race, not your actions, to this very day, how do you expect people not to form social groups based on race and culture.
I don't know wtf you're talking about civil rights being international and thinking of them internationally?? Of course tons of other countries have civil rights, and globally they are usually referred to as human rights. but each countries own civil rights are usually unique to each country, and ours is no different. So when people talk of civil rights, in the context of American society, it is implied the it's civil rights for minorities or a group of people in the U.S. that have in the past been "othered" or oppressed. Then what the hell did you mean by we're all "supposed" to be constitutionally equal as long as we have the same citizenship. People who are not a U.S. citizens, have basic rights, and human rights, but they don't have the same civil rights as a U.S. Citizen, I mean that's just Civics 101. So who is talking about non citizens, this whole thread and video post is about the the affects of slavery on modern politics, who are these non citizens, or people with "different" citizenship, and why are they being included in this discussion?
Is that science or cherry picking history? What about abolitionist movement at Harvard? Or all those who died fighting against slavery?