The Casual Killing Act of 1669

The Birth of Karen

One month of Black history. Eleven months of White history. Black history doesn’t sound so bad now, right?

Do we question who it is that does not want to see true history taught in our schools? Do we question the gatekeepers in public schools? Do we question why they would not like to see equality in America? Let’s take a look at the history of Virginia not too long ago.

White women had become a problem in colonial Virginia. Some were married young and pissed off at the older men they were forced to marry. Some were frustrated by just being a woman in colonial Virginia. While most were pissed at the caramel-colored babies running around the plantation wearing their husband’s faces. Slavery was a White man’s sexual fantasy come to life. It was his sexual playground, to do with these enslaved women as he pleased. There was no such thing as a consensual relationship between an enslaver and the enslaved. So, whenever he wanted it, he got it from whomever he wanted it male or female. This upset a lot of white women, to have a husband who was no longer sexually attracted to them, but making 6,10, 15, and sometimes up to 20 babies with some enslaved African woman. So, these White women would take out their frustration on the bodies of these innocent children who did nothing more than simply exist. These are the things that white women would do to these caramel-colored babies. So many mixed-colored babies were killed at the hands of white women that something had to be done because you could not arrest a white woman. That is just unheard of. Still true to this very day. They are the most loved, cherished, and protected in all across the globe, that European Standard. So, in October of 1669, King Charles II of England created, The Casual Killing Act I.

Virginia passed an act regarding the casual killing of the enslaved

“If any slave resists his master (or other by his master’s order correcting him) and by the extremity of the correction should chance to die, that his death shall not be accepted felony.”

In so many words it says that any enslaved who resists his master, mistress, or overseer and is killed as a result of the denied correction, justifies the person who killed them, with the latter getting off scot-free. This was created to prevent white women from seeing any punishment for killing innocent black babies, which essentially fixed the problem of white women and men killing black people. They can say that this slave resisted correction and died in the process of correcting him. This is partially the reason why police say, to stop resisting. Because if you are killed for resisting their correction, and they tell you to stop resisting, that justifies your death. The Casual Killing Act

And then came the Slave catchers in the Americas. The European colonies established this in the sixteenth century, in the West Indies, and adapted it in American colonies in the eighteenth century, colonial Virginia and Carolina.

1850 Law Enforcement in Colonial America

The origin of Law Enforcement as we know it.

Do you believe any of this could be the cause of broken homes, drug addiction, or mental illness? We don’t need therapy, we need the truth. The effects of slavery do not just have consequences and repercussions for Black people.

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