RE: dair-community.social/@trochee…
❝ when Europeans say "we're not racist like Americans" ❞
exactly as you say: they imply since they technically didn't have #chattle #slavery on their EU lands (at least on the scale USA had it), they can’t be that kind of racist.
but they did have slavery: first in their #MENA outposts, then in the lands they stole in the Américas.
#Ceuta and #Morocco need to be seen as, not just metaphors for migration from Africa to Europe. they represent Europe’s first enclaves of OFF-SHORE SLAVERY.
Jeremy Kahn (@trochee@dair-community.social)
@blogdiva@mastodon.social I think that the US relationship to race and immigration is the unholy synthesis of chattel slavery (via the British-dominated triangle trade) and La Conquista peonage, which is the outgrowth of Euro colonial adventures in…Distributed AI Research Community
craignicol
in reply to your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 • • •@SrRochardBunson so none of my fellow Europeans had figured out that racism is a European invention, or that for some reason all these other countries speak a European language? And many of the slaves and their descendants have distinctly European surnames?
Must just be a coincidence because all these countries were begging to be subjects of European culture.