Bren Kelly
2 min readApr 12, 2024

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That’s a fantastic analysis. I find more detailed analysis to be great, and of course one doesn’t have to agree with everything. But it enlightened me more on what the article was about. One thing I can comment on having read many historical accounts researching “black history” since hte racist cop murdered George Floyd is that rape of black women in the South from 1800 to 1800 was common. White men either used a “stud” to impregnate black women or did so themselves. The value of those children was about $15-30K on the slave market, and demand was endless due to the brutal growth of cotton farming which grew literally from one coast to the other over a hundred years, kicking the native indigenous out state by state to steal their nations. An average woman could produce between 15-22 children that were sold down river at age six often (literally packed onto barges with cattle). There were even some slave breeding towns set up in Virginia. The accounts are horrific, and some of the stories and evidence are collected from ex-slaves. The black population grew out of demand for “cheap labor” inherent in each child (child whites learned could be become superior pickers if the whites started them at age six). White scholar use the euphemism “natural increase” to explain the growth of the black American population from one million in 1800 to 4.2 million instead of what it was: raping and farming of black women for massive profit to feed the increasing demand for the slave trade. By 1860 the value on paper of the black enslaved humans from Georgia to Texas in the enslave cotton belt account for 20 % of the value of the whole country. So the “forced breeding” program was horrific. You can see where the obvious poor treatment of black women stems from. It is a callousness of usage.
I would like to say that white depraved attitude ended after the Civil War, but further evidence shows that cotton production quadrupled from the 1860 level by 1917, according to the federal reserve report in 1923. And it was all picked by black American hands. Black pickers still earned next to nothing. Deductively, that tells me the white callousness only continued to grow as profits and production soared through production that paid off the white owned land.

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Bren Kelly
Bren Kelly

Written by Bren Kelly

Engaged in Inequalities, dismantling Western Consciousness, confronting American narratives, seeking inherent injustices to address.

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