Counterpoint: Clarence Thomas. I think you’ll find that the problem is related to having power to abuse, not melanin concentration in the basal layer of the epidermis.
I mean yeah assessing people on an individual level is different from collective. Look at the collective history of white people over the past few centuries and it’s pretty logical why PoC are going to have their guard up. When white folk came to your country as a group, historical precendent is such that killing and/or stealing are high on the list of potential outcomes.
The Democratic party supported the civil rights act of 1964 in the US, which ended race based segregation. Since then not a single democratic presidential nominee has won the majority of the white vote. That’s some pretty dark shit.
This doesn’t mean that any single individual white person is presumed bad.
I think you’re still missing the point of power imbalance. Sure, you don’t see these atrocities committed in America by colored people because they haven’t had enough power there. But look to other places where colored people had power (for just about any value of colored) and you see the same kind of atrocities. The biggest limiting factor seems to be the scope of their power, not the limits of their brutality.
The scale of colonial exploitation and the Atlantic slave trade trump many if not most atrocities by other groups through history.
Slavery in Africa was very different from the chattel slavery practiced in the US where slaveowners had the right to punish slaves to the point of manslaughter without reprecussion. See the Casual Killing Act of 1669.
Slaves in Africa at the time were integrated as household members or low-status laborers rather than treated as perpetual chattel. Legal frameworks allowed some slaves to marry, inherit, and sometimes ascend to military or administrative roles.
European colonists created such a demand for slaves from Africa that it destabilized local economies, promoted war through using weapons for purchase and even led locals to believe Europeans were cannibals just based on the sheer number of people they were purchasing and transporting.
I wouldn’t blame Africans for being skeptical if a large group of white folk showed up at their coast and thats not even getting into the legacy of South African apartheid or the perpetuation of exploitation that persists to this day through neocolonialism.
Counterpoint: Clarence Thomas. I think you’ll find that the problem is related to having power to abuse, not melanin concentration in the basal layer of the epidermis.
Counter-counterpoint: Jasmine Crockett. She’s fucking awesome.
I mean yeah assessing people on an individual level is different from collective. Look at the collective history of white people over the past few centuries and it’s pretty logical why PoC are going to have their guard up. When white folk came to your country as a group, historical precendent is such that killing and/or stealing are high on the list of potential outcomes.
The Democratic party supported the civil rights act of 1964 in the US, which ended race based segregation. Since then not a single democratic presidential nominee has won the majority of the white vote. That’s some pretty dark shit.
This doesn’t mean that any single individual white person is presumed bad.
I think you’re still missing the point of power imbalance. Sure, you don’t see these atrocities committed in America by colored people because they haven’t had enough power there. But look to other places where colored people had power (for just about any value of colored) and you see the same kind of atrocities. The biggest limiting factor seems to be the scope of their power, not the limits of their brutality.
The scale of colonial exploitation and the Atlantic slave trade trump many if not most atrocities by other groups through history.
Slavery in Africa was very different from the chattel slavery practiced in the US where slaveowners had the right to punish slaves to the point of manslaughter without reprecussion. See the Casual Killing Act of 1669.
Slaves in Africa at the time were integrated as household members or low-status laborers rather than treated as perpetual chattel. Legal frameworks allowed some slaves to marry, inherit, and sometimes ascend to military or administrative roles.
European colonists created such a demand for slaves from Africa that it destabilized local economies, promoted war through using weapons for purchase and even led locals to believe Europeans were cannibals just based on the sheer number of people they were purchasing and transporting.
I wouldn’t blame Africans for being skeptical if a large group of white folk showed up at their coast and thats not even getting into the legacy of South African apartheid or the perpetuation of exploitation that persists to this day through neocolonialism.