Looking at the experience of black Britons through an American lens

Re:Looking at the experience of black Britons through an Ame... by simonklitj on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:07AM (#24660934)

Probably money, but that doesn't exclude the obvious racism it created. In Denmark, we had Africans in cages displayed in the Tivoli amusement park in central Copenhagen, so people could look at the spectacle that was the black person (https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2017-03-31-de-sendte-bud-efte..., in Danish).

While this was not the intent of our colonization and slavery-business, it inevitably caused it, imo. Or, the racism caused the success of colonialism, because it justified it.

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Re:Looking at the experience of black Britons through an Ame... by throwaway11291 on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:28AM (#24661079)

> Probably money, but that doesn't exclude the obvious racism it created.

This! In history, a lot of racism has been created to justify wars, economical exploitation, slavery, creating political scapegoats and so on.

Demonizing an enemy is the most basic method to polarize people. This type of "psyops" was extremely common during WW2.

People often don't really want to look at the root of racial, ethnic, political discrimination because it has to do with economic and political power.

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Re:Looking at the experience of black Britons through an Ame... by lowdose on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:45AM (#24661188)

Sixty years ago, Belgium set up a live display of people from Congo for the 1958 world fair.

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/26/649600217/where-human-zoos-on...

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Re:Looking at the experience of black Britons through an Ame... by jtbayly on Friday October 02, 2020 @06:36AM (#24661127)

Money was the main reason for American plantation slavery, too.

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