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TIMELINE OF HUMAN PROGRESSION Restoring Stolen History

Restoring Stolen History of Human Progression: A visual representation of the Unbroken Chain of Human Progression, documenting 4.6 billion years of history and the forensic indictment of stolen African heritage and engineering.

The Unbroken Chain: From Cosmic Engineering to Modern Consciousness

This visual journey documents the 4.6-billion-year trajectory of existence—from the formation of the Earth to the rise of African Homo sapiens and the dawn of Artificial Intelligence. These are the Antecedents: the foundational layers of engineering, biology, and law that define our reality. By tracing the links of this unbroken chain, we uncover the roots of our modern systems and reclaim the narrative of human progression.

I. ANCIENT EARTH

c. 4.6 Billion Years Ago

Earth: 4.6 Billion Years of Engineering

  • The Universe (c. 13.8 Billion Years Ago): The latest data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Cosmic Microwave Background measurements place the “Big Bang” at approximately 13.8 billion years ago.

  • The Milky Way (c. 13.6 Billion Years Ago): Our galaxy began forming shortly after the universe itself, roughly 13.6 billion years ago, as primordial gas clouds collapsed into the first stars.

  • The Earth (c. 4.54 Billion Years Ago): Our planet coalesced from the solar nebula approximately 4.54 billion years ago, a process of massive bodies staying in their orbits through precision and engineering.

c. 300,000 BCE

The Earliest Homo sapiens Appear in Africa

While various “human-like” relatives (hominins) walked the Earth for millions of years, this era marks the emergence of Homo sapiens—modern humans—specifically in Africa (Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and East African sites).

  • The Family Tree: Scientists now recognize that we were not alone. We shared the planet with other “humans,” including Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) in Europe and Western Asia, and Denisovans in Asia. Many paleoanthropologists classify these groups as “archaic humans” because they used tools, buried their dead, and possessed complex social structures.

  • The African Advantage: While Neanderthals evolved to survive the cold of the North, Homo sapiens in Africa developed a unique “cognitive toolkit”—advanced symbolic thought, language, and social networking. This gave the African Homo sapiens a biological and social edge that allowed them to eventually migrate and become the sole surviving human species.

  • The Genetic Legacy: Modern DNA research proves that as Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa, they encountered and interbred with Neanderthals. Therefore, most non-African populations today carry a small percentage of Neanderthal DNA. However, the purest lineage of the original Homo sapiens remains in Africa, making the African continent the true “Antecedent” to every living person on Earth.

c. 88,000 BCE

First Human Culture

 
The first known human culture was established at Katanda in the Congo region of Africa.

c. 13,000 BCE

Cattle are domesticated in Kenya, Africa.

c. 10,000 BCE

Advanced civilizations began to appear in Africa.

c. 9,600 – 9,000 BCE

Advanced organized societies emerge in the Fertile Crescent (Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, Jericho in Palestine), utilizing monumental architecture and defense engineering long before European civilization.

c. 7,000 BCE

Early Neolithic cultures (like the Jiahu and Peiligang) begin farming and making pottery along the Yellow River in China.

c. 5,900 BCE

World’s First Known Kingship

The world’s first known kingship of Ta-Seti is established by the Nubians in Northern Sudan/Southern Egypt.

c. 5,600 BCE

The Unification of Kemet: The World’s First Empire

The unification of Upper (South) and Lower (North) Egypt—known to its inhabitants as Kemet—under King Narmer/Mena marks the birth of the first centralized nation-state in human history. This was the moment the “Antecedents” of governance, law, and large-scale engineering were codified into a singular, enduring system.

  • The Narmer Palette: This archaeological “birth certificate” documents the transition from tribal chiefdoms to a unified monarchy. It depicts the King wearing the Pschent (the Double Crown), symbolizing the fusion of two distinct ecological and cultural zones into one cohesive geopolitical entity.

  • The Engineering of Bureaucracy: To manage a kingdom stretching the length of the Nile, the Africans developed the world’s first complex civil service. They pioneered a national census, systematic taxation, and a centralized grain storage system, allowing them to sustain a massive population and a standing military.

  • The Foundation of Divine Law: This era established the concept of Ma’at—the principle of truth, balance, order, and justice. The King was not just a ruler but the “Architect of Ma’at,” responsible for aligning human society with the laws of the universe. This legal and moral framework governed Egyptian life for over 3,000 years.

  • Monumental Legacy: By uniting the workforce of the entire Nile Valley, the Pharaonic system could execute engineering projects previously impossible for smaller tribes, leading directly to the construction of the first monumental stone structures and the sophisticated irrigation systems that turned the desert into a breadbasket.

c. 2,700 – 1,450 BCE

Minoan Civilization flourishes on Crete, serving as a maritime bridge transmitting knowledge from Africa and the Levant to Europe.

c. 2,000 BCE

First Chinese Dynasty

The Xia Dynasty (traditionally considered the first Chinese dynasty) begins, establishing a complex societal hierarchy and bronze working in China.

c. 1,600 – 1,100 BCE

Mycenaean Civilization emerges on the Greek mainland; they are the first documented Greek-speaking peoples and inherit foundational knowledge from the Minoans.

II. The Indigenous Civilizations of the “New World”

c. 1600 BCE – 400 BCE

The Olmecs (Mexico)

Known as the “Mother Culture” of Mesoamerica. They mastered monumental stone carving (the Colossal Heads) and developed the first writing systems and calendars in the Western Hemisphere.

c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE

The Trans-Atlantic Engineering: African Presence in the Americas

While mainstream history often begins with the “discovery” of 1492, forensic and botanical evidence suggest a sophisticated maritime connection between the Nile Valley and the Americas dating back over 2,000 years.

  • The Botanical “Smoking Gun”: In 1992, German toxicologist Svetla Balabanova discovered traces of cocaine and nicotine in the hair and bones of the mummy of Henut Taui and other 20th Dynasty royals. At that time, these plants (coca and tobacco) were indigenous only to the Americas. This suggests an established trade route across the Atlantic that predated the “New World” being officially on European maps.

  • The Olmec Connection: The rise of the Olmec civilization in Mexico (c. 1200 BCE) coincides with the decline of the New Kingdom in Egypt. The Olmecs suddenly began building pyramids and carving colossal stone heads with distinct African features, wearing helmets identical to those worn by Nubian/Egyptian soldiers of the era.

  • Naval Engineering: The Africans of the Nile and the West Coast understood the Canary Current—a “river in the ocean” that naturally pulls vessels from the African coast toward the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. This was not a voyage of “accidental drifting,” but a calculated use of global currents.

  • Mansa Abu Bakr II (c. 1311 CE): Centuries later, the tradition was continued by the Malian Emperor Abu Bakr II, who abdicated his throne to commission a fleet of 2,000 ships (1,000 for men and 1,000 for supplies) to cross the Atlantic. His successor, Mansa Musa, documented that only one ship returned to report that the rest had reached the “currents” of the West.

250 CE – 900 CE

The Maya Classic Period (Central America)

 
While Europe was fragmented after the fall of Rome, the Maya built massive city-states like Tikal and Palenque.
 
Sophistication: They independently invented the concept of zero and used a vigesimal (base-20) number system. Their solar calendar was more accurate than the Gregorian calendar used in Europe today.

1100 CE – 1533 CE

The Inca Empire (South America/Andes)

The largest empire in the world at the time stretched 2,500 miles.
 
Engineering: They built 25,000 miles of paved roads and suspension bridges across the Andes without the use of the wheel or iron—proving that “sophistication” isn’t tied to European-defined “tools” but to high-level organization and physics.

c. 1325 CE – 1521 CE

The Aztec Empire (Mexico/Tenochtitlán)

 
By 1500, their capital, Tenochtitlán, was larger and cleaner than London, Paris, or Madrid. It was built on an island with complex aqueducts, floating gardens (chinampas), and a mandatory education system for all children—regardless of class.

III. THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE RISE OF THE WEST

c. 800 – 500 BCE

Classical Greek Civilization emerges during the Archaic Period, building upon the foundations established by earlier non-white civilizations.

c. 509 BCE

The Roman Republic begins.

c. 325 CE

The Council of Nicaea and the Militarization of Faith

Roman Emperor Constantine the Great convened the First Council of Nicaea, which established the story of Jesus. It is the turning point that began the formal standardization of Christian doctrine (the Nicene Creed) and the institutionalization of the Catholic (Universal) Church.

The Shift to Empire: This era marks the transformation of Christianity from a persecuted sect into a state-sanctioned Roman power structure. Central to this was Constantine’s vision of the Chi-Rho (cross) symbol and the Latin phrase “In Hoc Signo Vinces“ (In this sign, you shall conquer). These were emblazoned on the labarum (the Roman military standard), forever linking the Cross with Roman imperial conquest and state authority—a precursor to the later religious justifications for global colonialism. 

c. 476 CE

The Roman Empire collapses. Note: While the West fell, the Eastern Roman Empire (capital: Constantinople) did not. It continued for another thousand years, becoming known as the Byzantine Empire, preserving Roman law and Greek culture in the East until 1453.

c. 632 CE

Islam and Muhammad

Following the death of Muhammad, who firmly established the Islamic faith in 622 CE, the Islamic Caliphates expanded rapidly out of Arabia.

c. 711 CE

The Umayyad Caliphate conquers the Visigothic Kingdom (modern-day Spain, Portugal, and Southwestern France) and establishes Muslim rule over the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).

c. 750–1258 CE

Islam and the Moors Rule Europe During the Dark Ages

The Islamic Golden Age (centered in Baghdad, but flourishing in Al-Andalus) sees massive advancements in mathematics (algebra), astronomy, medicine, and philosophy as the Black Moors lead the way.
 
Role in Europe: While most of Western Europe was fragmented, Al-Andalus (Spain) was a beacon of intellectual advancement. Through Toledo and Córdoba, Islamic knowledge, including translations of ancient Greek texts, was translated into Latin and sparked the European Renaissance centuries later. They were the de facto intellectual and societal influencers of Europe during the Dark Ages.

c. 1095 CE

The First Catholic Crusade and the Doctrine of “Holy War”

Pope Urban II delivered a sermon at the Council of Clermont, calling for a military expedition to “reclaim” Jerusalem from Islamic rule. This wasn’t just a local skirmish; it was the birth of organized Western expansionism fueled by religious zeal.

  • The Invention of Indulgences: To recruit soldiers, the Church offered “plenary indulgences”—the promise that all sins would be forgiven for those who fought. This turned conquest into a form of “spiritual salvation.”

  • The “Othering” of the East: This era solidified the narrative that people of the Islamic world (and later, all non-Europeans) were “infidels.” This “us vs. them” mental framework was a direct ancestor to the racism and xenophobia used during the Atlantic Slave Trade.

  • The Economic Motive: While cloaked in religion, the Crusades were also about establishing European trade routes and seizing the wealth of the East. This was a “test run” for the global extraction models used in 1492.

IV. The 1492 Pivot and Colonialism

c. 1492

Muslims and Jews Get Kicked Out of Spain

The last Muslim stronghold in Spain, Granada, fell in 1492. And you know the story of 1492 when Columbus sailed to the Ocean Blue, leaving in his wake the greatest human devastation the planet has ever seen.
 
The year 1492 marks a dark convergence: the Fall of Granada (the end of sophisticated Islamic rule in Europe), the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and Christopher Columbus’s landing in the Americas. This was the precursor of the modern concept of “whiteness” as a justification for the genocide and resource extraction that followed.

c. 1493

The Inter Caetera and The Doctrine of Discovery

Following Columbus’s return, Pope Alexander VI issued the Papal Bull Inter Caetera. This decree essentially “divided the world” between Spain and Portugal, establishing the legal and religious justification for the seizure of the “New World.”

  • The Line of Demarcation: The Pope drew an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean; all lands discovered to the west were granted to Spain, and those to the east (including Africa and what became Brazil) were granted to Portugal.

  • The Divine Mandate: The Bull stated that any land not inhabited by Christians was available to be “discovered,” claimed, and exploited. If the inhabitants did not convert, they were legally deemed “enemies of Christ” and could be enslaved or killed.

  • The Blueprint for Colonialism: This document is the root of the Doctrine of Discovery. It provided the “legal ammo” that European powers used for centuries to justify the displacement of Indigenous peoples and the extraction of resources.

This decree transformed the Church from a spiritual guide into a real estate agency for the European powers, creating the legal precedent that Indigenous sovereignty did not exist. 

The Living Legacy: The Doctrine of Discovery in Modern Courts

Today, courts still use the Papal Bulls of the 1400s as the foundation for the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal principle that remains the “supreme law of the land” regarding Indigenous territory.

  • The 1823 Pivot: In the case Johnson v. M’Intosh, Chief Justice John Marshall codified the Papal Bulls into U.S. law, ruling that “discovery” gave European nations a colonial title to Indigenous lands that superseded the rights of the original inhabitants.

  • The 2005 Precedent: As recently as 2005, in City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York, the U.S. Supreme Court (in an opinion written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) cited the Doctrine of Discovery to deny the Oneida Nation sovereignty over their ancestral lands.

  • The Global Impact: This legal “ghost” continues to haunt the high courts of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, ensuring that the “Master-Slave” property dynamics established in 1493 remain legally enforceable in 2026.

The legal ‘original sin’: The Papal Bulls are not just dusty relics; they are the active software running the modern judiciary. By citing these decrees, modern courts continue to uphold a 500-year-old ‘conquering sign’ that denies Indigenous people full ownership of their own soil—proving that the ‘Engineering’ of systemic exclusion is still functioning exactly as it was designed.

c. 1619

First African Slaves Arrive in the American Colonies

On August 20, 1619, 20-30 captives from the Kingdom of Ndongo (modern-day Angola, Africa) arrived at Point Comfort (modern-day Hampton, Virginia) aboard the English vessel White Lion. The captives were previously taken off a Spanish slave ship, the Sao Joao Bautista, in the Gulf of Mexico by the English privateers.
 
This marked the beginning of the engineering of racialized chattel slavery in the English colonies, and established the legal and economic framework for the “theft” of African labor and the systemic exclusion that would follow for centuries. 

c. 1620

The Mayflower Lands

The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, on December 21, carrying 102 passengers and 20-30 crew members. The passengers initially referred to themselves as separatists (or Saints) from the Church of England due to its corruption and Roman Catholic influences. The name “Pilgrims” used today to describe these “separatists” was not used until the late 1700’s. When a passage from William Bradford’s private journal, Of Plymouth Plantation, was read at a Forefathers’ Day celebration. In it, he wrote, “They knew they were pilgrims,” referring to the biblical Hebrews searching for the holy land. That’s why and how we call them Pilgrims today.

c. 1676–1687

The Birth of “Whiteness” (Made in the USA)

The first “whiteness” laws in the history of the world were established by the Virginia House of Burgesses in response to Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676, where enslaved Black Africans and White European indentured servants united against the colonial elite. This collective attack of Blacks and Whites against the elite needed to be neutralized. 
 
What better way to separate the two sides than by anointing one of them with special status?

c. 1776

The American Colonies Declare Independence from British Rule

The Declaration of Independence is signed with its preamble stating: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” 
 
The Preamble concludes  by stating that when a government fails to protect these equal rights, it is the “Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.” This transformed freedom from a passive hope into an active, justified struggle against any administration that moves toward exclusion or nationalist dominance. 
 
The “We hold these truths…” line was perhaps the most important words ever written for humanity’s sake, even though they were never intended for nonwhites or women. To this very day, people around the world use the powerful words to demand freedom and justice for all.

c. 1788

The U.S. Constitution Is Ratified Protecting Slavery

The United States Constitution is ratified. Article I, Section 9 states that no law should be passed by Congress banning the “Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit” before the year 1808. In plain English, Congress was prohibited from passing any law that outlawed slavery before the year 1808. 
 
Yes, the Constitution guaranteed slavery in America for twenty years, no matter what. Additionally, Article I, Section 2 (the Three-Fifths Compromise) counted Africans as “three-fifths of all other Persons” for purposes of representation and taxation. 
 
Note: You see, the authors of the Constitution were lawyered up. They meticulously avoided the words “slave” or “slavery” in the document, instead using phrases like “Persons held to Service or Labour” to ensure the document appeared philosophically neutral while legally protecting the institution of human bondage.

c. 1803

Haitians Defeat France

The Haitians defeated Napoleon, led by the previously freed slave Toussaint Louverture (1776). This defeat was so devastating to Napoleon and his French troops that it forced him to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States at a steep discount. Napoleon planned to use the Louisiana Territory as a granary and supply hub to feed the plantations. However, with the defeat in Haiti, he decided to cut his losses and sold the land to the U.S. for $15 million.

c. 1804

Haiti declares its independence.

c. 1807

Britain abolishess slave trade but not slavery.

c. 1825

France passes a law to force the Haitians to repay 150 million francs for the loss of property (African slaves). It took 121 years for Haiti to pay off the debt in 1947.

c. 1829

Mexico Abolishes Slavery

Mexico abolishes slavery under President Vicente Guerrero, who was the first and only Mexican president of mixed African blood

c. 1830

Indian Removal Act

President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act. While the law’s language suggested a voluntary “exchange” of lands, it was used to force the “Five Civilized Tribes” (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole) off their ancestral homelands in the Southeast. This Act gave Jackson the power to ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling in Worcester v. Georgia, which had recognized tribal sovereignty. It stands as the legal foundation for the betrayal of dozens of treaties and the systematic erasure of native rights to the land. It is one of many broken treaties or deals made by the U.S. to native peoples.

c. 1833

Britain Abolishes Slavery

Britain abolishes slavery across the empire, giving 20 million dollars in compensation to slaveowners.

c. 1836

Battle of the Alamo

Citizens in the Texas territory fight for independence from Mexico. Texas territory was a province of Mexico, and Mexico abolished slavery in 1829. People living in the Texas territory wanted to keep slavery.
 
It’s amazing how many Americans don’t know that the entire Southwest of the United States, including California, was once part of Mexico. Or that the Battle of the Alamo was about slavery.

c. 1838

The Trail of Tears Begins

President Martin Van Buren initiates Jackson’s Indian Removal Act—the Trail of Tears, a forced march removal of native peoples from the Southeastern U.S. (Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi) to lands west of the Mississippi, mainly in Oklahoma territory. Historians estimate up to 15, 000 native people died over the twenty years it took to relocate the tribes.

c. 1861

The U.S. Civil War Begins

The United States Civil War over the issue of slavery began.

c. 1863

The First Reconstruction Era

The First Reconstruction Era began in 1863 and lasted until 1877, with the Compromise of 1877. It began with Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, which outlined plans for the South after the war.

c. 1865

President Lincoln Assassinated

President Lincoln was shot in the head by assassin John Wilkes Booth while attending a play, Our American Cousin, at Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., on April 14. He died the following day on April 15th. 
 
The final trigger that ignited Booth was Lincoln’s speech a few days earlier, on April 11th, in which he advocated giving African Americans the right to vote.

c. 1865

The First Reconstruction Era

The First Reconstruction Era began in 1863 and lasted until 1877, with the Compromise of 1877. It began with Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, which outlined plans for the South after the war.

c. 1865

The 13th Amendment

The 13th Amendment becomes law, abolishing slavery.

c. 1868

The 14th Amendment

The 14th Amendment becomes law, granting citizenship to former slaves

c. 1870

The 15th Amendment

The 15th Amendment becomes law, granting African American men the right to vote.

c. 1888

Brazil Abolishes Slavery

Brazil, which imported more African slaves than any country in the New World—an estimated 5 million—finally abolishes slavery.

V. The Modern Era of Endless Wars

c. 1914-1918

World War I

Triggered by the Assination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Hungarian throne. Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia because Austria believed Serbia was responsibel for the Duke’s death. . This triggered a domino effect, pulling in Russia, Germany, France, and Britain into the fray within weeks, with other countries following later, including the U.S.

c. 1920

Women in the U.S. Granted the Right to Vote

The 19th Amendment becomes law, granting women the right to vote.

c. 1921

The Destruction of Black Wall Street (Tulsa, Oklahoma)

On May 31 and June 1, 1921, a white mob sanctioned by city officials attacked the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma—at the time the wealthiest Black community in the United States, famously known as “Black Wall Street.”

  • Economic Engineering: Greenwood was a self-contained economy with its own banks, hotels, luxury shops, and private airplanes. Its destruction was not just a “riot”; it was a targeted liquidation of Black capital and generational wealth.

  • The Scale of Devastation: Over 35 city blocks were systematically burned to the ground. While the official death toll was initially reported as 36, modern historians and forensic investigators estimate that as many as 300 people were murdered, many buried in mass graves that are still being searched for today.

  • Aerial Warfare: This marked one of the first times in history that private aircraft were used to drop incendiary firebombs on a civilian population within U.S. borders.

  • The Insurance Erasure: In the aftermath, insurance companies refused to pay out claims to Black home and business owners, citing “riot” clauses. This legal maneuver ensured that the survivors could not rebuild their wealth, effectively “engineering” the permanent poverty of the survivors’ descendants.

  • In June 2024, the Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit brought by the last two living survivors, Viola Fletcher (now 111) and Lessie Benningfield Randle (now 110). They were seeking reparations under a “public nuisance” law, but the court ruled 8-1 that the law didn’t apply to historical tragedies and that any remedy must come from policymakers (politicians), not the courts.
  • DOJ Report: In January 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice released a formal report concluding the massacre was a “coordinated, military-style attack,” but confirmed there is no federal path left for criminal prosecution because the statute of limitations has expired and all perpetrators are deceased.

The Current Status (February 2026)

  • City Reparations Package: In June 2025, Tulsa’s first Black mayor, Monroe Nichols, unveiled a $105 million reparations package called the “Road to Repair.”

  • The Trust: It establishes a private charitable trust intended to fund housing assistance ($24 million), small business grants, and scholarships for descendants.

  • The Survivors: Notably, this city plan does not include direct cash payments to the two centenarian survivors. They are still being supported primarily by private philanthropists and their own families.

c. 1939-1945

World War II

On September 1, 1939, Germany’s Adolph Hitler sent his Nazi troops to invade Poland. This prompted Great Britain and France to Declare War on Germany. The U.S. would enter the worldwide war afer Peral harbor was attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. The following day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his famous “Infamy Speech” and declared war.

c. 1948

U. S. Armed Forces Abolishes Discrimination

President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981 to abolish discrimination in the United States Armed Forces.

c. 1950-53

Korean War

Begins on June 25th when North Korea forces invaded the South to unify the peninsula. This was the result of years of tension between the North and South, following Russia and the U.S. artificially dividing the country at the 38th parallel after World War II.

c. 1954

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas I

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that “separate but equal” education was inherently unequal, declaring segregation in public schools unconstitutional. This overturned the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision that had legalized Jim Crow for over half a century. It also marks the beginning of the Second Reconstruction period, which lasted until the early to mid 1970s.

c. 1955

Emmett Till Murdered

Money, Mississippi: on August 28, 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a gang of white men who claimed he whistled at a white woman (Carolyn Bryant) near Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market. They found his severely beaten and traumatized body in the nearby Tallahatchie River on August 31, 1955. 
 
The haunting story and images of Till’s body sparked a fire in the souls of Blacks and sympathetic whites that would fuel the nation towards social change.  
 
Decades later, Bryant admitted she lied about Till whistling at her during an interview with historian Timothy Tyson. The admission was made publicin his book The Blood of Emmett Till, released in 2017.

c. 1955

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas II

In a follow-up case known as Brown II, the Supreme Court ordered that school desegregation proceed with “all deliberate speed.” In practice, this vague language gave white supremacist power structures the legal loophole to delay, stall, and resist integration for decades, leading to the “massive resistance” movement across the South.

c. 1955–1956

Montgomery Bus Boycott

On December 5, 1955, Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks led the Montgomery boycott in Georgia, citing unconstitutional discriminatory practices by the private bus company, Montgomery City Lines, and the City of Montgomery. Parks (along with others) refused to give up her seat to a white man and move to the back of the bus. She was arrested by police and charged with violating the City’s racial segregation policies. 
 
The boycott lasted for 381 days. It culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling in a related case, Browder v. Gayle, on November 13, 1956, declaring bus segregation unconstitutional. Aurelia Browder, Claudette Colvin, Susie McDonald, and Mary Louise Smith had all been mistreated by the Montgomery City Lines bus company, and they took their case to Federal court on February 1, 1956. The subsequent decision rendered the Rosa Parks case legally unnecessary. And that’s how the Montgomery Bus Boycott was truly settled.

c. 1957

The First Civil Rights Act of the Modern Era

The first Civil Rights Act of the modern era established the Civil Rights Division within the Department of Justice.

c. 1963

Vietnam War

U.S. becomes embroiled in the Vietnam War. The conflict began in 1954 as a decolonization struggle by the Vietnamese against French rule, and became a Cold War proxy war after the 1954 Geneva Accords divided the country at the 17th parallel. Do you see a pattern here? 
 
The U.S. became substantially engaged in the war in 1963. The U.S would remain deeply involved in the war until 1975, resulting in the deaths of over 58.000 troops, another  75,000 suffered severe disabilities from burns to amputations, and 30% of the surviving deployed members suffered PTSD.

c. 1964

1964 Civil Rights Act

Civil Rights Act Becomes Law, banning discrimination in federal government, hotels, restaraunts and theaters (public spaces), and authorized the Attorney General to file lawsuits to speed up school desegregation.

c. 1965

1965 Civil Rights Act

Civil Rights Act  becomes law, outlawing discriminatory voting practices.

c. 1965

Martin Luther King Jr. Was Assassinated

On April 4th, Martin Luther King was murdered by an assassin’s rifle bullet while on the balcony of his Lorraine Motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, sparking weeks of violent riots in major cities across the country.
 
King’s murderer was James Earl Ray, he was arrested on June 8, 1968, at London’s Heathrow airport. Ray confessed and was sentenced on March 10, 1969, to serve 99 years in prison. He died during his prison term on April 23. 1998 in a Nashville hospital due to complications from kidney disease and liver failure caused by hepatitis C.

c. 1968

1968 Civil Rights Act

On Aprl 11, 1968, one week after Kings assisination, President Lydon B. Johson signs the 1968 Civil Rights Act, outlawing discriminatory voting practices. 

c. 1980-1986

Crack Cocaine Devastates Black Communities

During the early ’80s, crack cocaine flooded into American inner cities. Many believe this was a concerted effort involving the U.S. government’s assistance. Investigative history (most notably Gary Webb’s 1998 book Dark Alliance) has exposed a concerted effort involving U.S. government assistance. Web actually began documenting his allegations in a series of articles published in the San Jose Mercury News in 1996.

  • The Contra Connection: To fund an illegal war in Nicaragua, the CIA-backed Contras moved massive amounts of cocaine into the U.S. By turning a “blind eye” to these shipments, the federal government effectively subsidized the destruction of Black neighborhoods to fund foreign regime changes.

  • A Weapon of Neutralization: This influx served a domestic purpose: it decimated the political and social organizing power of the Black community just as they were beginning to consolidate the gains of the 1960s.

The 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act

The devastating impact of the crack cocaine epidemic on the Black community was compounded by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, which created a 100-to-1 sentencing disparity between crack (used primarily in Black communities) and powder cocaine (used primarily by whites). 
 
This era of “hyper-incarceration” tore fathers and mothers out of homes, gutted the economic gains of the Civil Rights era, and effectively stalled the upward mobility of a generation. The social and legal scars of this targeted “War on Drugs” are still being felt today. This era was used by the media and the state to rebrand the Black community as “predatory,” justifying the rollback of social programs and the increase in militarized policing—a direct antecedent to the anti-diversity rhetoric seen in 2024.

c. 1991

Persian Gulf War

On August 2, 1990, President George H.W. Bush announced the War Against Iraq on January 16, 1991, due to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. A coalition of 35 nations joined the U.S. to defeat Sadam Huesen’s Iraqi forces. The war officially ended on February 28, 1991.

c. 2001

9/11 Twin Towers/Pentagon Terrorist Attack

On September 11, 2001, during the early morning hours, Lower Manhattan’s Twin Towers were struck and taken down by terrorists controlling commercial jets. The Pentagon in Washing D.C was also struck by a commandeered jet. 2,900-plus lives are lost. 
 
Over the passing years, many more deaths and casualties ensued due to the environmental effects of the blasts. 

c. 2001

Afghanistan War

On October 7, 2001, President George W. Bush announced America’s launch of war in Afghanistan in retaliation against 9/11, even though not a single identified 9/11 terrorist was from the country. 

c. 2003

War on Iraq

On March 19, 2003 7, 2004, President George W. Bush announced America’s launch of a war against Iraq, claiming they had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.
 
America has not yet fully withdrawn all its troops from this conflict.

c. 2009  

Barack Hussein Obama II Elected U.S. First Black President

On January 20th, 2009, Barack Hussein Obama II became the first United States President with African heritage (father: African (Kenya); mother: Caucasian).

c. 2010  

 

Citizens United and The Corporate Takeover of Democracy

In the landmark case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (5-4) that the government cannot limit “independent” political expenditures by corporations and unions.

  • Corporate Personhood: The ruling was based on the legal fiction that corporations have First Amendment “Free Speech” rights. By equating money with speech, the Court ensured that those with the most capital have the loudest voice in the democratic process.

  • The Rise of the Super PAC: This decision birthed the “Super PAC,” allowing billionaire donors and corporate interests to pour unlimited, often untraceable (“Dark Money”), funds into elections.

  • The Antecedents Connection: This effectively legalized a new form of “Aristocracy.” Just as the 325 CE Church and the 18th-century Plantocracy used the law to consolidate power, Citizens United ensured that the winners of the previous eras of exploitation could now buy the legislation required to protect their interests indefinitely.

c. 2013 

 

Supreme Court Begins Dismantling Civil Rights Acts

On June 25, 2013, the Supreme Court began dismantling the Civil Rights legislation in the Shelby County v. Holder case. The decision from this case struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, removing the formula used to determine which states needed to be monitored for compliance with voting laws.

c. 2014  

U.S. Census  Bureau Projects U.S. Nonwhite Population to Take Over the White Population By 2044

In a news release, the U.S. Census Bureau projected that the U.S. population will become more nonwhite than white by 2044. 
 
This is perhaps the most ominous canary in the coal mine moment of what was to come in America. It marks the beginning of what I call The Third Reconstruction period.

c. 2021

The Right Launches Anti-Woke Campaign

The Right launches its anti-woke campaign. a coordinated cultural backlash aimed at opposing the progressive shift in education, corporate diversity, and social justice.

c. 2022

The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence

While AI had been developed in labs for decades, 2022 was the “1492 moment” for the digital world—the year the frontier was opened to the general public through the release of generative models that could create, code, and converse.

  • April – DALL-E 2 (Text-to-Image): OpenAI unveiled DALL-E 2, a system that could generate photorealistic images from simple text descriptions. It sparked the first major global debate over the “engineering of creativity” and the future of human artistry.

  • August – Stable Diffusion: Unlike proprietary models, Stable Diffusion was released as “open weights,” allowing anyone with a consumer-grade computer to run a powerful AI locally. This effectively decentralized the power of AI, moving it out of the hands of big tech and into the hands of the individual.

  • November 30 – The Launch of ChatGPT: OpenAI released ChatGPT (based on GPT-3.5) as a free public research preview. It became the fastest-growing consumer application in history, reaching 1 million users in just 5 days and 100 million in two months.

  • The Cognitive Shift: For the first time, humanity had a “General Purpose” interface—a machine that didn’t just calculate data but could synthesize language, pass the Bar Exam, and draft legislation. This milestone represents a pivot from humans using tools to humans collaborating with autonomous cognitive systems.

This “1492 moment” for the digital world signals more than just a technological shift; it represents a fundamental pivot in the trajectory of human evolution. Just as the global maps were redrawn in the 15th century, the landscape of human consciousness is now being restructured by the presence of a non-biological intelligence. 

We are entering an era in which our cognitive boundaries are no longer self-contained but are integrated with an autonomous “Second Brain.” This fusion will inevitably redefine what it means to think, create, and perceive reality—engineering a future in which human progress is measured by our ability to navigate a world where the line between organic thought and synthetic intelligence has been permanently erased.

c. 2023

The Heritage Foundation Publishes Project 2025: A White Supremacy Agenda

 

 The Heritage Foundation, in collaboration with over 100 conservative organizations, published “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” commonly known as Project 2025.

  • The Unitary Executive: The 900-page document outlines a plan to centralize total power within the Presidency, effectively dismantling the “Checks and Balances” system. It proposes reclassifying tens of thousands of civil service workers as political appointees to ensure absolute loyalty to the executive branch.

  • The Social Reset: The plan calls for the total elimination of DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) programs, the dismantling of the Department of Education, and a federal crackdown on reproductive rights.

  • The Antecedents Connection: Project 2025 represents the modern “conquering sign.” It is a sophisticated effort to use the legal and political gains of the previous centuries—specifically the corporate power granted by Citizens United—to legally “rollback” the social and civil rights progress of the 20th century.

c. 2024

Donald J. Trump Re-elected after Felony Convictions and Strong Ties to Jeffrey Epstein 

President Donald J. Trump is re-elected to office after 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and amidst a whirlwind of anti-diversity messaging and white nationalist rhetoric.  
 
The current Trump administration has numerous high-level officials with white nationalist ties or beliefs, and they have already delivered on over 50% of the Project 2025 agenda. The same Project 2025 agenda that Trump repeatedly denied knowing anything about during the campaign. 
 
The bottom line is that these white nationalists view America as “a white country” and are actively moving toward a future with a country that reflects those views.