Anyone who examines the history of the US objectively is bound to accept that for much of its history the widespread use of the law to discriminate against those with black ancestry belied the fine sentiments regarding the inalienable rights of which the constitution speaks. The most basic right to marry someone irrespective of their ancestry and skin colour was not established until Loving v Virginia in 1967.
However, the perpetuation of racial policies in the interest of equity unsurprisingly tends to sow division rather than enabling the US to move on from the deformation that slavery introduced into their society.
What is more annoying from a UK perspective is the introduction of racial classifications into the UK that has never been an institutionally race based society despite the establishment of slavery in the Caribbean colonies. The malign effects did not establish themselves in the UK .
American myopia is very frustrating; they could do with a few bestseller books on the ubiquity of slavery in nearly all countries, prior to the Americas colonisation period. At it’s peak, the Roman empire took in some 400,000, mostly white, new slaves a year; the Barbary pirates took a million or so Europeans in the C16-18th into enslavement in North Africa; and the ancient Egyptians, middle- Easterners slavery was widespread – it’s been said that there were three classes at the time – royalty, merchants, and slaves. It seems that where-ever there was a civilisation, there was slavery – mesoamerican, Asian, middle-East, European.
Just as young people think they invented sex, so young countries think that nothing happened before they did it.
Julian Farrows
2 years ago
The last sentence of this article rings true to me. Our institutions, originally designed to serve the public interest, have become extractive and predatory. They are no longer fit for purpose.
michael stanwick
2 years ago
The notion of truth is postmodern Foucaultian in my view. I also lean into the analysis given by James Lindsay in his recent book Race Marxism, that the power dynamic is a consequence of a marxist interpretive frame.
harry storm
2 years ago
race grifters gotta grift.
Christopher Barclay
2 years ago
Stating that America’s history started in 1619 implies that those people living on the continent before 1619 are sub-human.
Anyone who examines the history of the US objectively is bound to accept that for much of its history the widespread use of the law to discriminate against those with black ancestry belied the fine sentiments regarding the inalienable rights of which the constitution speaks. The most basic right to marry someone irrespective of their ancestry and skin colour was not established until Loving v Virginia in 1967.
However, the perpetuation of racial policies in the interest of equity unsurprisingly tends to sow division rather than enabling the US to move on from the deformation that slavery introduced into their society.
What is more annoying from a UK perspective is the introduction of racial classifications into the UK that has never been an institutionally race based society despite the establishment of slavery in the Caribbean colonies. The malign effects did not establish themselves in the UK .
American myopia is very frustrating; they could do with a few bestseller books on the ubiquity of slavery in nearly all countries, prior to the Americas colonisation period. At it’s peak, the Roman empire took in some 400,000, mostly white, new slaves a year; the Barbary pirates took a million or so Europeans in the C16-18th into enslavement in North Africa; and the ancient Egyptians, middle- Easterners slavery was widespread – it’s been said that there were three classes at the time – royalty, merchants, and slaves. It seems that where-ever there was a civilisation, there was slavery – mesoamerican, Asian, middle-East, European.
Just as young people think they invented sex, so young countries think that nothing happened before they did it.
The last sentence of this article rings true to me. Our institutions, originally designed to serve the public interest, have become extractive and predatory. They are no longer fit for purpose.
The notion of truth is postmodern Foucaultian in my view. I also lean into the analysis given by James Lindsay in his recent book Race Marxism, that the power dynamic is a consequence of a marxist interpretive frame.
race grifters gotta grift.
Stating that America’s history started in 1619 implies that those people living on the continent before 1619 are sub-human.