"During an interview with The Real News last week, Horne, who is Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, argued that the United States could not escape the fact that it had been founded as a “slave holder’s republic.”
“The Africans did not take kindly to being enslaved, and so they rebelled against the slave holding republic,” he explained. “And that helped to create a culture that has yet to be interrogated or even questioned, even by historians, that basically set forth that people of color, Africans in the first place, African men not least, were the enemies of the republic.”...
According to Horne, “the origins of urban police department lies precisely in the era of slavery.”
“That is to say, slave patrols, which were designated to interrogate, to investigate the enslaved Africans who were out and about without any kind of investigation,” he noted. “If you fast-forward to 2015, you still see more than remnants of that particular system. It’s still rather questionable to some if they see a black person, particularly a black male walking in a certain neighborhood, and therefore they will be asked to produce identification.”"
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