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1619: White Supremacy from the Start, "They built the plantations of…

- - - - "Statewide office was restricted to wealthy property owners. To even qualify for the governorship, you needed a large, debt-free estate. Rich enslavers were essentially the only people who could participate in the highest levels of government." (Bouie 52)
  - - - "President Andrew Jackson, an enslaver from Tennessee famous for brutal ‘‘Indian’’ fighting in Georgia and Florida, swooped in on the side of fellow enslavers, championing the Indian Removal Act of 1830." (Miles 22)
      - White supremacy pits BIPOC people against each other, while forwarding the agenda of the white man
        
        Even while bearing slavery’s scars, black men f"ound themselves carrying out orders to secure white residents of Western towns, track down ‘‘outlaws’’ (many of whom were people of color), police the federally imposed boundaries of Indian reservations and quell labor strikes." (Miles 22)