history of racism

esh dov ets

esh dov ets

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There is a distinction between racism, institutional racism , individual racism and white supremacy. Each one refers to racism. There are some people recently that are rejecting the dictionary definition of racism and replacing it with the definition of systemic racism or of white supremacy.

An individual racist need not exist to note that institutional racism is pervasive in western society and to a large degree the whole world. Third world nations are the ghettos and mining towns of the world and are predominantly brown. The resources stolen there are used for the first world. U.S.A. is not the only "first world".

The term racism has a definition. The system of radical hierarchy that we live in today, has it's roots in control, power, greed, fear and opportunism. In other words todays capitalism. Capitalist p.r. has been using racism since Europe began to be an empire. Racism has grown and flourished under the western world capitalism. Racism existed before this through out recorded history. in Greece there was propaganda about different colored people, and what would be different ethnicities. The Egyptians racial construct was based on religion. The Asian empires had casts. The Christians where white and the Muslims dark brown. The feud between these two. The intolerance preached by most Christians . As well as the start of the European empire, birthed the institutional racism we have today.

Now we have late stage capitalism featuring, institutional racism and individual racism. The later often born from the former.
 
LegalizeNature420

LegalizeNature420

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esh dov ets said:
The Christians where white and the Muslims dark brown. The feud between these two.
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Yep, there was a strong racial element to that. When the [European Christian] Crusaders captured Jerusalem in 1099, they slaughtered local Christians along with the Muslims and Jews.

Yet both these groups shared a similar disdain for blacks:

"We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions."
- Al Jahiz

"Laziness is inherent in these men (blacks), they are a loose, roving, reckless set of beings. Economy, care or foresight never enters his head. He is a creature of impulse—a grown child.”
- John Speke
 
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DiogenesTheWiser

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There's a huge debate among historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and sociologists about when "race" was created by Europeans (namely Portuguese and Spaniards--both of whom have an ethnically-mixed history). The term for race in both of these languages, "raza," didn't appear in the written record until the mid-1500s. They developed a term to describe people who didn't look like them--namely Africans and the "Guanche" people of the Azores and Madeiras that the Spanish and Portuguese colonized before setting up raiding stations on the West African coast.

After Columbus reached the Caribbean, they encountered yet other people who didn't look like them or worship like them--and erroneously called them "Indians," since they thought they were in India.

After several decades of Spanish and Portuguese colonization of Central and South America, they began importing Africans as a labor force. They conspired to keep language groups apart from one another. So Malinke people were mixed with Yoruban who were mixed together in holding cells with Ife. After decades of this breaking practice, the Africans were shorn of their identities and the Europeans called them all "black."

And the reason for all of this in the 1500s and 1600s was mercantile capitalism. Extract resources from other lands, and use forced laborers to do it.
 
DiogenesTheWiser

DiogenesTheWiser

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There's a really good documentary from PBS--it's about 20 years old now--called Race: The Power of an Illusion. It was made by historians, anthropologists, and political scientists--who comment throughout the film. It also shows primary sources and how historical figures helped to create racial categories, and thus the idea of race itself.

This link here is about how the English contributed to racial constructionism: http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-02-09.htm
 
esh dov ets

esh dov ets

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LegalizeNature420 said:
Yep, there was a strong racial element to that. When the [European Christian] Crusaders captured Jerusalem in 1099, they slaughtered local Christians along with the Muslims and Jews.

Yet both these groups shared a similar disdain for blacks:

"We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions."
- Al Jahiz

"Laziness is inherent in these men (blacks), they are a loose, roving, reckless set of beings. Economy, care or foresight never enters his head. He is a creature of impulse—a grown child.”
- John Speke
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so that festering disdain was capitalized on to create institutional racism. it was encouraged and promoted along with manipulating peoples imagination of things wild and foreign which much of the general population was interested in. writing went from being wonderful and curious to being scary .
 
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fdd2blk

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abandonconflict said:
Funny how he doesn't even deny being a rat, just insists that a page of my passport is nothing.
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What are you so scared of? Are you shipping pounds of weed? You some kind of kingpin? Why would anyone have any interest in what you are doing?

You're a fraud. You live in your Mom's basement.

/END
 
esh dov ets

esh dov ets

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fdd2blk said:
What are you so scared of? Are you shipping pounds of weed? You some kind of kingpin? Why would anyone have any interest in what you are doing?

You're a fraud. You live in your Mom's basement.

/END
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he is a jihadi. he lives in the enlightened part of Babylon with his anti-fa Homies.
 
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