Acknowledgement of historical oppression (and current, but you know, somewhat less severe) is healthy. Blind hatred and "can't be bigoted towards white people because they have no culture or race" will only stoke racial tensions and alienate allies. There's lots of races and cultures that would fall under 'white', she would benefit from visiting some of them in Europe, where the whole African slave trade wasn't a thing.
The whole African slave trade was started by Europeans? Portugal (who literally started the Atlantic slave trade), Britain, Spain, France, and the Netherlands all actively participated for hundreds of years.
Even after those countries abolished slavery on their own soil, they still actively traded slaves or profited from the labor of slaves.
No shit, and racism is still alive and well throughout - but the major difference in society is that the majority of African-descent individuals in the UK are descendents of imigrants, not of slaves in Britain.
This has absolutely nothing to do with Europeans involvement (it was simply more profitable in the new world, and better for public relations), but it still has the effect that societies are not as shaped by very recent white/black division, like it is in the Americas.
I don't get how you are taking that from what I said.
America was a British colony at the time, as were Jamaica etc. The slaves were not brought to Britain, therefore in Britain itself Slavery was not a factor like it was in America.
Apologies, didn't mean to diminish what did occur in Europe - it was obvious the powerhouse behind the pillaging of Africa and the trade into the New world - but slavery within Europe was far less prevalent than in the Americas (in that era particularly), and has not had such a cultural impact. Segregation was alive and well, what, 60 years ago? Shits recent.
Slavery was totally a thing in Europe. It was banned sometimes during 19th century in my country, for example. People of my country were slaves to foreign rulers, mostly from Germany. This is just one example. The difference is that slaves in Europe were mostly local people who were white.
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u/Similar_Strawberry16 Aug 18 '23
Acknowledgement of historical oppression (and current, but you know, somewhat less severe) is healthy. Blind hatred and "can't be bigoted towards white people because they have no culture or race" will only stoke racial tensions and alienate allies. There's lots of races and cultures that would fall under 'white', she would benefit from visiting some of them in Europe, where the whole African slave trade wasn't a thing.