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Dysology and Criminology: The Blog of Mike Sutton. All my opinions are my own and may not reflect those of any employer or organisation

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Sutton’s Mythbusting Protest. Wikipedia Myth Number 8. The Black Slaves’ White Trash Myth.

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Nov. 9, 2013 4:19 am

Categories: Counterknowledge, Dysology

Keywords: white trash, White Trash Myth, newly busted myth, term White trash, Poor White Trash, coined the term white trash, etymology, dysology, racism

Here on Best Thinking, everyday throughout November I am publishing a newly busted myth, or newly discovered fallacy, which is currently being disseminated by the online encyclopedia known as Wikipedia.

I am highlighting Wikipedia’s unreliability and dreadful quality of information in protest against its deliberate policy of facilitating and refusing to halt engaging in stealth plagiarism of information from the unique work of expert authors.

At the time of writing, Wikipedia’s senior editors refuse to cite Best Thinking as a reliable source, yet Wikipedia regularly plagiarizes the original content on this site to pass-off my unique myth busting discoveries as though they are discoveries made by its own replicators who refer to themselves collectively as ‘Wikipedians’. Wikipedia passively sanctions this self-serving fraudulent behavior in order to conceal its unreliability and pervasive mythmongering. (Click here: for the full story).

Today’s blog reveals that Wikipedia is publishing a universal myth about where and when the derogatory phrase “white trash”' first entered the English language.

Myth

On 9th November 2013 Wikipedia is mongering the myth that black people, who were held as house slaves in the USA in the 19th Century, invented the term 'white trash' to refer to impoverished white people working as servants   :

‘The term White trash first came into common use in the 1830s as a pejorative used by house slaves against poor whites. In 1833 Fanny Kemble, an English actress visiting Georgia, noted in her journal: "The slaves themselves entertain the very highest contempt for white servants, whom they designate as 'poor white trash'".

In 1854, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the chapter "Poor White Trash" in her book A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin.’

Fact

The evidence allows us to do no more than conclude that the term was coined by a white writer in a work of fiction. Fiction is, unfortunately, much of what passes for fact on Wikipedia!

Margaret Bayard Smith (1824) A Winter in Washington: Or Memoirs of the Seymour Family, Volume 2. New York. Bliss and E. White. p.132   

‘Mrs. Jenny, let me tell you.” “ Hold your tongue, Joseph; do you think because I bemean'd myself to marry such a neger as you, I'll be beholden to them white trash, that with their hardhearted ways forced me to do the like? No, indeed…’

How to reference this discovery

Sutton’s Mythbusting Protest: Wikipedia Myth No. 8 ‘The Black Slaves’ White Trash Myth’. Best Thinking November 9th 2013.