Backintyme Essays

Essays on the Color Line and the One-Drop Rule
by Frank W Sweet
September 7, 2009

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ccording to President Obama’s (now resigned) “green policy” advisor Van Jones, “Only suburban white kids shoot-up schools.” See the video.

In fact, most school shooters (55 percent) are African Americans. Ever since the federal government made the nation’s schools death-traps in 1996 by outlawing armed self-defense by administrators, teachers, staff, or students, the rate of incidents has climbed to one school shooting every 60 days. From January 1, 1997 to September 16, 2009 there have been 50 school shootings involving 66 shooters. Of those 66 shooters, 36 were African-American, 19 were Euro-American, and 11 were other (Korean, Philippine, Indian, undetermined). Click on the links in the following table for pictures of the shooters. The fraction of African-American school shooters (53 percent) is higher than the African-American share of any other form of criminal violence.

Here are a couple of other links to lists of school shootings:

Time Line of Worldwide School Shootings

Wikipedia School Shootings

Click on one of the following internet radio links to hear 24/7 lectures on the history of U.S. "racial" classification:

Frank W. Sweet is the author of Legal History of the Color Line (ISBN 9780939479238), an analysis of the nearly 300 appealed cases that determined Americans’ “racial” identity over the centuries. It is the most thorough study of the legal history of this topic yet published. He was accepted to Ph.D. candidacy in history with a minor in molecular anthropology at the University of Florida in 2003 and has completed all but his dissertation defense. He earned an M.A. in History from American Military University in 2001. He is also the author of several state park historical booklets and published historical essays. He was a member of the editorial board of the magazine Interracial Voice, is a regular lecturer and panelist at historical and genealogical conferences, and manages an online discussion group on the history of U.S. racialism sponsored by Backintyme Publishing. To send email, click here.

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