Re:Overcoming Us vs. Them (2017)
by babesh on Friday August 07, 2020 @10:03PM
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Black and white was a competitive construct of us and them. It is that simple. Human culture really isn’t more complex than that. It is just strategies and tactics layered atop the same goals animals have.
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Re:Overcoming Us vs. Them (2017)
by DoreenMichele on Friday August 07, 2020 @10:21PM
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No, in this case it was a simple way of saying "This group of people can be slaves and that group of people cannot be slaves" which is why we get weird demarcations about how you are still "Black" even if you are only 1/8 African: So slave owners could rape their slaves, father children upon them and treat those children as slaves for several generations.
In the US, our weird definitions surrounding "Black" and "White" are a polite euphemism for "People officially marked as someone you can victimize and people officially marked as someone who can do the victimizing."
Which I didn't really want to baldly state because it isn't something Americans really want to hear.
I liked your first post, but this one is in line with the article.