Well thats how it started in America. But these people needed to justify the horrible acts they were putting another human through so they created the "blacks are less than us" mentality, to seem more humane. That mentality stuck and thats were the racism came from
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I guess i have to clear up that im not saying anyone living today is blamed for that. I was just pointing out the fact that people back then in america thought as black people as not even human. I wasnt saying slavery wasnt bad everywhere, cause it was
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I have never seen someone hold on to something so insignificant in this day and age just to use it for their own gain like a BLM supporter used slavery.
Oh shit, that's terrible! Slavery was bad, and it's not like every single modern superpower has a harsh history of slavery, and if they did, black people had it the worst! I fucking hate people like that and wish I could go back in time and pull them out by the roots.
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There's some extensive research on this topic in Charles Mann's "1493".
Some of the most important factors in the beginning of the slave trade were availability, hardiness, fitness for slavery; blackness came later and was more associated with the continuation of slavery.
-Slaves were available in Africa, because the continent had a booming slave trade.
-West Africans happen to have an immunity to malaria, which plagued the Southern United States, killing white immigrants and indentured servants. Plantation owners started noticing that the African workers lived about 5-8 years longer in slavery than the whites did (dying of malaria after only about 2 years).
-After unsuccessfully trying to enslave Native Americans, ruling class elites and plantation owners sought a kind of servants/slaves that couldn't organize among themselves. Africans from varied tribes had little common background, language, culture, etc. This made them easier to subjugate. The old 'divide and conquer'.
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Later, when black slaves and white indentured laborers started organizing uprisings and rebellions, the ruling class gave privileges and rewards to white servants who won or earned their freedom. A black man who bought his freedom would get an acre of land, where a white man who paid his way out of indentured labor would be rewarded with 15 acres of land, for example (I don't recall the exact numbers, but the principle is what matters).
This division based on color kept poor whites and poor blacks trapped in an "Us vs. them" mindset and under the control of the ruling class.
I can't remember at this point if that's all in the "1493" book I noted above, or if part of it is in Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States"
Either way, read both. They're very well researched and wonderfully informative.
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Over 28 Million Africans have been enslaved in the Muslim world during the past 14 centuries. While much has been written concerning the Transatlantic slave trade, surprisingly little attention has been given to the Islamic slave trade across the Sahara, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.
While the European involvement in the Transatlantic slave trade to the Americas lasted for just over three centuries, the Arab involvement in the slave trade has lasted fourteen centuries, and in some parts of the Muslim world is still continuing to this day.
The reason for so much attention on slave trade in the Americas, in particular the USA, is that most other countries don't claim to be the Land of the Free, and preach to others what it didn't (at the time) follow. You tend to get shit when you don't practice what you preach.
It isn't justifying slavery. It's stating the fact that every race has been subject to slavery and black people can't keep playing the victim card anymore in America. We are a free country and we are FREE of slavery. Obviously there are still issues with how people are treating each other. And no, I do think it's just white people being dicks. Black people are being dicks too. I don't fucking care if I'm going to be called a racist after this. Because I'm not. I'll respect you by how you present yourself, not because of the color of your skin.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." One the greatest speeches in American history seems to be forgotten nowadays.
But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: in the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. (My Lord, No, no, no, no) [applause] We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.
(A lot gets left out.)
Like, this is true, but it doesn't really get to the heart of the issue that even after slavery, blacks in America went through another 100+ years of systemic discrimination and oppression, the effects of which are still very noticeable in today's society, such as gangs that came about because the police force wasn't paying attention to those parts of the community, but eventually they just turned into what they are today, plus, being from the south I've seen that the money that was made off of the backs of slaves still carries forward to this day and age, so I don't think we should dwell on slavery, but we should also be aware of the actual effects of American slavery
No shit, it's saying that black people need to move on from the fact that they were slaves, it was a terrible thing that every race has been the victim of at one point or another yet it seems like only black Americans seem to still hold the grudge.
Oh shit, that's terrible! Slavery was bad, and it's not like every single modern superpower has a harsh history of slavery, and if they did, black people had it the worst! I fucking hate people like that and wish I could go back in time and pull them out by the roots.
Some of the most important factors in the beginning of the slave trade were availability, hardiness, fitness for slavery; blackness came later and was more associated with the continuation of slavery.
-Slaves were available in Africa, because the continent had a booming slave trade.
-West Africans happen to have an immunity to malaria, which plagued the Southern United States, killing white immigrants and indentured servants. Plantation owners started noticing that the African workers lived about 5-8 years longer in slavery than the whites did (dying of malaria after only about 2 years).
-After unsuccessfully trying to enslave Native Americans, ruling class elites and plantation owners sought a kind of servants/slaves that couldn't organize among themselves. Africans from varied tribes had little common background, language, culture, etc. This made them easier to subjugate. The old 'divide and conquer'.
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This division based on color kept poor whites and poor blacks trapped in an "Us vs. them" mindset and under the control of the ruling class.
I can't remember at this point if that's all in the "1493" book I noted above, or if part of it is in Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States"
Either way, read both. They're very well researched and wonderfully informative.
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While the European involvement in the Transatlantic slave trade to the Americas lasted for just over three centuries, the Arab involvement in the slave trade has lasted fourteen centuries, and in some parts of the Muslim world is still continuing to this day.
(A lot gets left out.)