I ASKED AI | How White People Were Invented

[00:00:01]There is no gene for whiteness. Let's be clear. No bloodline, no ancient homeland, no tribe that crossed an ocean carrying the title white person in its hands. You see, for most of human history, nobody on this planet was white. Not one soul. The people who built the pyramids weren't white. The conquerors weren't white. the philosophers, the kings, the empire builders, none of them woke up in the morning and called themselves white because the category did not exist.

[00:00:34]Uh-uh.

[00:00:36]So, I decided to ask AI about this thing called white and this whiteness because I got questions. I got questions. Okay.

[00:00:56]Well, hello everybody. My name is Lissa.

[00:00:58]I am indeed the people's reporter. Okay?

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[00:01:20]From the bottom of my heart, I thank you deeply. So, let's just go on and get up and do it. Okay. All right. Listen, since they decided to remove everything out the museums, out the libraries, out the schools, off the walls, you understand? I felt it was very much necessary and my duty to bring the information to the people.

[00:01:46]Now, it's your choice whether you want to take it or not, but that's where we at. Okay. All right.

[00:01:53]So, I asked AI, listen, how was whiteness or how were white people created since they weren't white before they were European or or something like that, right? So, how were they were created? How was it created? Right? This is what AI told me. Y'all ready? Let's go.

[00:02:13]AI says white people were invented recently on purpose by specific men for a specific reason. And here's why you need to understand that. Because once you can see the machinery, once you understand that this was built, not born. You stop asking why this country treats you the way it does. You realize you are not looking at nature. You're looking at a design.

[00:02:38]That's a yeah. It goes on to say this is how white people were invented and this is exactly what we are dealing with.

[00:02:46]Hey, I said we okay.

[00:02:49]The word race the way we use it now the sort human beings into colored tears barely existed before the 1500s. When the term first showed up, people used it for almost anything. A race of wine, a race of saints. It meant a type of thing. It had nothing to do with skin.

[00:03:10]Web devoce saw this clearly more than a century ago. In the souls of black folks, he wrote that quote, "The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's people is a very modern thing." End quote. He said, "The ancient world would have laughed at the idea.

[00:03:26]The medieval world looked at skin color with at most mild curiosity."

[00:03:32]Think about what that means. Every culture on earth had its own ways of dividing people by language, by religion, by region, by who your grandfather was. But the idea that all the pale skinned people of the world form one super team called white standing above everybody else. Yeah, that is not ancient wisdom. That is a modern product. And like every product, somebody manufactured it and somebody profited, says AI. In 1684, a French physician named France Bernier published an article with a long title that translates to quote a new division of the earth by the different species or races that inhabit it. End quote. That little article is one of the first times a European sat down and tried to sort all of humanity into ranked racial boxes.

[00:04:24]Then came the catalogers. Carl Lanaeus built the system we we still use to classify every plant and every animal and he reached over and tried to classify humans too. And in the late 1700s, a German named Johan Friedri Blumenbach drew up five divisions of mankind. He put one group at the very top and gave it a brand new name. He called them Caucasians after a mountain range because he thought the most beautiful skulls he owned came from that region.

[00:04:56]Yeah. Now sit with that one for a minute. The word so many people wear like a birthright was coined by a man admiring a skull collection.

[00:05:07]And here's the part that matters most, says AI. Scholars who study this, like Gregory Jay, who literally wrote a piece called Who Invented White People?

[00:05:17]described whiteness as a panethnic category, a merger, a way to take a bunch of feuding European groups who hated each other, the English, the Irish, the Germans, the Italians, and stitch them into one team, one race, one club. Yeah, but a club is only powerful if it can keep people out, right? So, the real question becomes, what was the club built to do?

[00:05:44]AIN goes on with part three and it says whiteness in America did not get defined by what it was. It got defined by what it stood against. In the beginning, white supremacy wasn't really about loving white people cuz they didn't like each other. Remember, it was about everyone else. Now, look at the law. In 1705, Virginia passed a sweeping set of slave codes. Among other things, that body of law barred any negro, mulatto, or Indian from holding public office, lumping free black people in with criminals as unfit. The point wasn't to celebrate whiteness. The point was to draw a line and make sure that everyone on the other side of that line could be controlled, excluded, and owned. This is the engine, says AI. Whiteness was a membership card and the whole reason the card existed was so that there could be a class of people who were not members.

[00:06:43]You see, a class you could buy, sell, work, and breed. The category and the chains were built in the same factory at the same time for the same purpose. Now watch what happens when these men sit down to build a country. James Madison, the so-called father of the constitution. Yeah, that guy admitted in private that it was wrong to write into the law the idea that there could be property in men. He knew it. He said it right. And then he did it anyway. In Federalist number 54, Madison defends counting enslaved people as part person, part property. He writes that the constitution decides with great propriety by viewing the enslaved in the mixed character of persons and of property. He says this is quote in fact their true character end quote not a tragedy to be fixed their true character right that is the founding document of the United States during a doing arithmetic on human beings three-fifths of a person for the census full property on the auction block the men who wrote all men created equal yeah had already decided on paper that some men were stopped white supremacy wasn't a stain on the founding says AI. In too many places, it was the founding. Here's a piece almost nobody teaches you or me, right? Ever wonder why the Bill of Rights is a set of amendments? Yeah.

[00:08:17]Added on instead of being written into the original Constitution? Well, James Madison didn't think the country needed one in the Enlightenment frame he was working in. The big rights were supposed to be universal and God given, so why list them, right? But Virginia would not ratify it. And one of the loudest voices was Patrick Henry. Quote, "Give me liberty or give me death." End quote.

[00:08:43]Patrick Henry, who was also one of the largest enslavers in the state. That Patrick Henry. So during Virginia's ratification debate, Henry stood up terrified. He pointed out that Virginia held hundreds of thousands of enslaved people and he warned that a new federal government might one day arm black soldiers or worse free them outright. He asked in effect, may they not pronounce all slaves free? So Madison went back and adapted language from George Mason, right? to help write a guarantee about well- reggulated militia and the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

[00:09:24]Historians like Carol Anderson have made the case that the Second Amendment in part was a promise to the slave states, you will keep the armed power to put down a slave revolt. And after the country was built, they locked the door behind them. Indeed, in 1790, one year after ratification, Congress passed the very first naturalization act. It said that the only people who could become citizens were, in the law's own words, free white persons of good character.

[00:09:56]The first definition of an American written in plain ink, was white. And don't tell yourself that this was just a southern problem. In 1821, New York rewrote the Constitution to strip the vote from free black citizens while keeping it for white men. The delegates justified it with the race science of the day, openly arguing that black people lacked the intelligence and character to vote safely. Then in 1857, the Supreme Court made a natural a national doctrine. In DreadScott, the court ruled that black people were not and were never meant to be included in the word citizen. It describes us as subordinate and an inferior class of beings and delivered the line that still echoes that black people had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

[00:10:50]Read that carefully, says AI. The highest court in the land said that all black people, not just the enslaved, all of us. all of us. And they kept refining the cage. In 1924, Virginia's Racial Integrity Act defined a white person as someone with no trace whatsoever of any blood, any other blood than Caucasian.

[00:11:10]That is the one drop rule written in the statute. One drop of black ancestry and the whole apparatus came down on you.

[00:11:17]Now, here's the trick that exposes the whole illusion. You ready? All right.

[00:11:23]The boundary of whiteness moves.

[00:11:27]There was a time the Irish were not considered white, right? Think of the 30s. The time where Italians weren't, a time where Jewish immigrants worked, right? They were sneered at, attacked, shut out. And then one by one, they were led into the club. And the price of admission was almost always the same.

[00:11:46]Prove you'll help hold down that line against the people below you. Yeah. Look at the word Hispanic. Once it sat outside whiteness entirely. Now, the census gives you white Hispanic and non-white Hispanic as if the same person could be filed two different ways depending on the year. See, that's the tailtale. All right. A real natural category doesn't need to keep redrawing its own borders. The line moved because the line was never about biology. It was always about power, about who gets to stand on the inside and benefit from everyone kept on the outside. And so, you know, I would argue that this is a good reason why uh outside of the blatant racism, especially from standard Spaniards down to Mexico and those in the and Cuba and and all the rest of these places, right, where we black people experience a lot of racism from the Hispanic community. Now, I'm going to be honest with you, baby. I was working for the census at the particular time. I can tell you I can tell you that yes, there was a white Hispanic on there and there was a non-white Hispanic on there. And I can almost guarantee you that that's how they sat up there and put they said that Hispanics were really on their side, right? Because a lot of Hispanics actually marked that little box that said white Hispanics because they are trying to be in alignment and adjacent to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And that means like everybody else, put black people down and you can be allowed in the club.

[00:13:17]But I'm going to tell y'all something.

[00:13:18]Y'all be the same people that be rocking up in that in that church, the Catholic church. But then when I think about it, was it not the Catholic church where enslavement was first approved?

[00:13:32]Yes, it was. Okay. Yes, it was. Yes, it was. Yes, it was. But I digress. Let me continue.

[00:13:40]So why what is whiteness really? So the boys asked the question better than anyone. He wrote quote, "But what on earth is whiteness that one should so desire it?" End quote. And he answered himself that whiteness had to come to mean the ownership of the earth forever and ever. Right? So I'll take it one step further. And this is the part I need you to carry with you, says AI.

[00:14:06]Whiteness is not eternal. It is not ancient. It is not as solid as it pretends to be. It is a thing that was invented inside the last few centuries to justify theft and slavery and exclusion. And a theme that has to be reinvented, redefined, and repoliced in every generation precisely because it isn't real. God dog. Okay. A truly superior thing does not need to manufacture inferiors to feel superior.

[00:14:33]The need to subjugate is not a sign of strength. It is a confession of fear. So when you feel the weight of this system, when you wonder why it grips so hard and adapts so fast, understand what you're actually looking at. You're not looking at destiny. You're looking at an insecurity dressed up as a birthright.

[00:14:56]AI says white people were invented, which means the hierarchy can be uninvented, but only by people who can see it clearly.

[00:15:06]Now you can. My name is Larissa and I am indeed the people's reporter. And if you're new here, I want to say thank you and welcome and thank you for staying through the whole video. All right. I know that was a lot of information, but it was also enlightening, wasn't it?

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