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Like honestly I am a changed person, I have never been so revolted by my own body.
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Economic exploitation was the major force behind the African slave trade, the attempted extermination of Indigenous people, and the migration of Asians and Hispanics to US shores. Although racism was a part of the European psyche prior to the 1600s, the US slave trade was initially 'big business,' since the purpose was to provide a cheap labor force to the colonies, which needed an alternative to the costly indentured servant system.
It was not until African labor in America became a 'big business' commodity that racism, as an economic system, became a part of the institutional fabric of American society. Neither politics nor religion were protected from its cancerous effect; in fact, the emerging economic, political and religious systems all depended on racism for their experience.
For almost four hundred years, American has been wrestling with the differences between its ideals and practices. From its very beginning until now, the American economic system, American racism and American religion have been so tightly interwoven that they often appear to be three sides of the same coin-with American religion being the coin's edge. With this combination, the American experiments was doomed from the start for people of non-European ancestry.
The dynamics of racism alone would have offered a major hurdle, but with the trinity of economics, racism and religion, the high jump to success in American for non-Europeans was impossible.
Reverend Tyrone Pitts, "US Economics Linked with Racism", The Vanguard (Jan/Feb 1988)
#something I read in my African-American/Latino histories class today that really stuck with me#people think inequality has one source but it's so prevalent in everything#history#racism
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Somebody gif’d this already but I DON’T CARE I’M GIFING THIS ANYWAYS BECAUSE DAE FEELS.
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I give up. I couldn’t choose three. So I let it burn. Everything. I save the cat.
Haruki Murakami on which three albums he would save if his house burned down (via murakamistuff)
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