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YoungDemCA

(5,714 posts) Wed Jul 6, 2016, 01:05 PM Jul 2016

Re: the origins of American racism...a chicken-or-the-egg situation [View all]

Do you think that racism was what spurred the colonial European/Euro-American enslavement of African peoples, or was racism a post hoc justification and rationalization used by white colonialists for the enslavement of African peoples?

I personally am sympathetic to the latter explanation, though I do think that there was an element of the former one as well. What do you all thank?

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Re: the origins of American racism...a chicken-or-the-egg situation [View all] YoungDemCA Jul 2016 OP

Both bravenak Jul 2016 #1

There was actually a Pope JustAnotherGen Jul 2016 #3

Scary as fuck bravenak Jul 2016 #4

Chattel Slavery? JustAnotherGen Jul 2016 #2

empire was around before what we cal Europe DonCoquixote Jul 2016 #5

Probably both whatthehey Jul 2016 #6

Former, induitably to me. I have to look up my Zinn and other sources to quote directly forjusticethunders Jul 2016 #7