[Saya]

Originally Posted by Renatus

Hmm interesting. I would say I think the usage of slaves in America contributed to the duration of the slavery, and created the racism, rather than the racism existing beforehand. It used to be much of the time that slaves were a luxury item that helped out around the house, or business, or provided entertainment somehow. You interacted with them on a regular basis, and were generally associated with better things, contributing to their better treatment and likely hood of being freed.

What? Dude, there was racism before slavery. Canada didn't have much of a slave trade and still found a way to be institutionally racist. And don't forget to conquer America you had to kill a whole lot of natives who refused to be assimilated into whiteness.

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Then you have the American usage of slaves, thanks to the industrial revolution and colonization you found them used as simple laborers, and interacted with them very little and as a result you disassociated from them , and would be more likely to look down upon them.
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There were both house slaves and field slaves, it didn't make a large difference.

Two examples supporting this are how house slaves actually got freed a lot more often compared to the field slaves, and the Egyptian slaves who were used in an even more extreme fashion as a far more expendable workforce you barely interacted with, and slavery there lasted far longer than it did here.

White America isn't as old as Egypt, and anyway the prison labour system intentionally made it so that freed black slaves remained slaves. We don't think at all about the work of prisoners, they're totally removed from us and it perpetuates.

But how many of those cultures were the ones that participated in the slave trade is something I'd like to know, especially since as cultures with writing they would be better educated.

Education didn't stop Europeans or white Americans from committing genocide and slavery, did it?

Well they're not the sort of thing you have whole towns having picnics for anymore. Hell picnic has often incorrectly been thought of as a shortened version of pick-a-******, though it was used in that context often at the time.

But the judicial system is extremely reluctant to persecute those who do kill innocent black people, a cop in Tennesee just got paid vacation for shooting an unarmed black teenager, it took over a month to arrest Zimmerman and he quickly made up to 200,000 dollars through online donations, and an online retailer is apparently making lots of money selling Trayvon Martin shooting targets. Meanwhile black people who defend themselves are persecuted to the full extent of the law, like CeCe McDonald who should have been protected by Florida's Stand Your Ground Law.