Observation: historical racism and today

Mr. Ed

Mr. Ed

Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
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What if people of color were treated fairly and equally throughout history. Would racism be the same as it is today?
 

The media influences society by the contents it shows to viewers. Is there a bigger purpose to the contents that are revealed in American movies and tv shows.
Popular tv shows like Suits and For the People depict people of color in prominent courtroom roles. If white people showed respect to people different than themselves, racism would not be the same.
 
Mr. Ed said:
What if people of color were treated fairly and equally throughout history. Would racism be the same as it is today?
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Every race has been enslaved, yet today’s discussions only ever focus on the Atlantic Slave Trade, i.e., the black slave. Hell, the Irish slaves were more plentiful in the English Empire, they were cheaper and treated far worse since they were Catholic, no thanks to Oliver Cromwell. If you go back far enough in history, you can find the dark pasts of every civilization and of every group of people. People of all races and all backgrounds will never be able to achieve peace if all they ever do is focus on the past and demand restitution for ancestors that are long dead from “perpetrators” who are also long dead

https://theracecardproject.com/every-race-slave/
 
Black Slavery is from our very own lifetime @Disgustedman. When I was born, there were freed slaves STILL alive. Black Slavery is recent, occurring during our Age of Reason/Enlightenment era, making it thus the most reprehensible of all Slavery, because we knew better and did it anyway. Black Slavery, the actual knowledge of it, is still present in the minds of living people today, passed down to those through memories, like the Holocaust.

As a Jew, I'm not mad at the Egyptians.
 
I believe that in the ancient world, slaves were prisoners of war, and from captured lands. So, slavery was color blind in that slaves were whoever lost a war. I do have my own theory about Black slavery. Blacks make good slaves, because it's easy to identify them in a Caucasian world. Duh!! So, if slaves are Black, and this guy is Black, he must be a slave. I don't think humans are great at accepting others as brothermen, if there's any miniscule difference between them.
 
Disgustedman said:
Every race has been enslaved, yet today’s discussions only ever focus on the Atlantic Slave Trade, i.e., the black slave. Hell, the Irish slaves were more plentiful in the English Empire, they were cheaper and treated far worse since they were Catholic, no thanks to Oliver Cromwell. If you go back far enough in history, you can find the dark pasts of every civilization and of every group of people. People of all races and all backgrounds will never be able to achieve peace if all they ever do is focus on the past and demand restitution for ancestors that are long dead from “perpetrators” who are also long dead

https://theracecardproject.com/every-race-slave/
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I quite agree. This concept of restitution is idiotic at best and should be dropped from consideration.
 
Mr. Ed said:
How do minorities gain respect from their oppressor’s
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By oppressors being too afraid, knowing they are working against the law and societal approval.

That may not be respect, but it will keep the oppressors at bay. Who needs their respect, anyway? Just leave others alone to go their way.
 

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