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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-12-01 03:53 pm

[ SECRET POST #2525 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2525 ⌋

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(frozen comment) Re: LISTEN TO ME WHITE PEOPLE

(Anonymous) 2013-12-02 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
How about the fact that those enemy tribes were sometimes already enemies, because Africa is not a single homogenous entity, and were sometimes pressured into becoming entities by the forces of white European colonialism (the ramifications of which you can see in, say, the Rwandan genocide)? How about what you would do if someone offered you guns and money to bring your neighbors in, or said they'd settle for you and your family if you didn't cooperate? How about when we decided to continue to justify slavery in the United States after the rest of the world had started to abolish it, we had to make an excuse to do so and thus basically "created" race as we understand it today, in order to justify slavery via the "differences" between white people and Africans? How about those "difference" narratives (about intelligence, physical capabilities, sexuality, aggression, and on and on and on) are still alive and present today in the form of stories about academic ability and poverty and "Welfare Queen" stories and "gang violence" and the phrase "black on black crime" (as if most crime isn't intraracial, sheesh)?

How about you try a real history lesson about race in the U.S. instead of this bumper sticker response that blames the enslaved rather than the actual slavers and then conveniently forgets the ramifications? Ugh.