So you are denying the trans Atlantic slave trade happened and that my ancestors were not immigrants?

Chattel slaves were not migrants either.
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Treaty of Paris, 1783.

Not that new a phenomenon
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The article deals with the 1950s & 1960s. During that time white women and white men with no property were able to vote.

One of many stories in the long and ongoing struggle for voting rights that is not in textbooks.

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Picture book by Alice F. Duncan @alicefayeduncan.bsky.social , illus. by Charly Palmer: "Evicted!" about rural, grassroots Tent City Movement for right to vote.

No fairytale ending. They oganized with voting rights victory, but many lost jobs, forced to move. ⬇️
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Two of the few Black farmers who owned land provided space for the homeless Tennessee sharecroppers to live in tents while they organized to defend right to vote.

Black land ownership was also key in organizing for vote in Mississippi.

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Just a reminder, my enslaved ancestors did NOT immigrate to the USA.
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"Just a reminder, unless you are an indigenous person, you are an immigrant in this country."

By "realistic," I mean acknowledging the anxieties ppl feel about immigration that is rooted in a fear of scarcity, cultural displacement, of a chaotic world pushing at the borders, etc. If libs/progressives think all these are unfounded, what's the realistic story we're telling that counters them?

Immigration is THE issue animating the rise of the Far Right globally for the last 15 years. Until liberals/progressives have a realistic story to tell about it that counters the visceral dislike ppl have for mass migration, it will keep being an animating issue for the Right.

That old "nation of immigrants" story was very powerful & worked until other factors (neoliberal free market capitalism, primarily) began to erode the sense of social mobility that was promised throughout the 20th c. Now, I'm not sure you can sell that story to ppl feeling deep economic anxieties.

Black Americans were brought here, and many have native American ancestry because some natives owned slaves. Black Americans are not immigrants.

I get what you mean, but we didn't come here at all. We were brought here. Immigrants have a second place to call home, Black Americans do not. I see a lot of people saying this is a nation of immigrants, but that's very inaccurate. It ignores colonialism and slavery. I'm just saying.

Yes.

Are you seriously pushing this "descendants of immigrants" rhetoric in a city built on rice cultivation by chattel slaves (non-immigrants)?
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"you are likely the descendant of immigrants- unless you are part of the 1.1% of the population that is Native American."

Most "black" slave owners, 90%, were listed as mulatto on the federal census in the 1800s

They were members of a middle tier caste in Louisiana and Charleston, SC. They were not considered black at the time.

The remaining 10% were ppl that purchased their relatives to free them