Racism: Why were Americans so racist prior to the 20th century?

[oyarde]

Hey all, this has been on my mind for a long time. Why were African-Americans treated so poorly by European-Americans? While I've been out there looking for answers, nothing has really satisfied my curiosity. Historians have reported on what happened to African-Americans, but has no one looked for the rationale behind WHY it happened? I'm only looking at the relationship between African-Americans and European-Americans as this post would be too long if I touched on Native-Americans and Asian-Americans.

How can you say in 1776 the United States was founded upon the ideals of freedom and rugged individualism when people were classified as property? Slavery is the direct anti-thesis to freedom. I don't know, it just seems disgusting to me. How can you say 'All men are created equal' and then in the same breath, have people existing as slaves? I've read that European-Americans viewed the enslavement of African-Americans as being a part of a 'civilising mission'.

The only sensible conclusion is that European Americans didn't view African-Americans as being completely human. This makes sense because if you look at African-Americans in this way, their treatment doesn't really appear nasty at all. If African-Americans weren't considered human then the laws that apply to humans don't apply to them. In other words, African-Americans weren't an enslaved people because they weren't people.

If you buy me 100 cases of beer I will do your homework. Otherwise , I will answer this question. Racism is bullshit. There is no excuse for slavery. There is no defense a Man can give for thinking it is moral or good to own another.There for an adult man , is also no excuse to become owned.Fight to the death.

 

[NewUser]

Like the Hudson Bay Company, ignorant child. Like the Rothschild Bank. Like the royal family of England, Prussia and Russia (note I said 'family', not 'families').

Your school is brainwashing you. You want actual education. Find it.

Alright, thanks I'll look up Hudson Bay Company.

 

[LibForestPaul]

Why are Brits still so classist?
Why do Europeans still worship their Crowns?

 

[PierzStyx]

Multi-national corporations from the 18/19th centuries??? Like what?

The East India Trading Company is another example. Formed by the British as a private stock company, it conquered India and took part in forcing opium on China. Britain was literally the world's largest drug dealer at one point.

 

[NewUser]

The East India Trading Company is another example. Formed by the British as a private stock company, it conquered India and took part in forcing opium on China. Britain was literally the world's largest drug dealer at one point.

Crazy...

Be good if we could speak on this later.

 

[Acronies]

Because of crime. Its the peaceful race that is dying out.

 

[Acronies]

Most babies born in the US are non-white.

 

[brandon]

The African slaves were enslaved by fellow africans before they were sold to europeans.

 

[pcosmar]

Most babies born in the US are non-white.

All babies are non white.

I have never in my life seen a white baby,, they are all shades if pink to brown.

 

[tod evans]

All babies are non white.

I have never in my life seen a white baby,, they are all shades if pink to brown.

I've personally delivered 7 while working ambulance in the service and every one was reddish blue...


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They all pinked right up though..

 

[Acronies]

All babies are non white.

I have never in my life seen a white baby,, they are all shades if pink to brown.

 

[acptulsa]

Because of crime. Its the peaceful race that is dying out.

Oh, I don't know. The Arabians that the Powers that Be are criminally slaughtering wholesale in the Middle East over the petrodollar don't have all that peaceful a history.

 

[AuH20]

Because of crime. Its the peaceful race that is dying out.

Nothing peaceful about that race. More like 'lost.'

 

[Ender]

The whole West is pretty racist; not just America.

All the Africa/India/ME takeover by Britain was early 20th Century- and they were not the nice guys.

 

[James Madison]

The whole West is pretty racist; not just America.

All the Africa/India/ME takeover by Britain was early 20th Century- and they were not the nice guys.

Humanity is pretty racist, in general.

The West gets a bad rap becomes it's the only places where 'melting pots' exist, which will naturally lead to racial tension. Everybody wants in to Europe or the US -- people in Zimbabwe or Bangladesh want out.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

In the 20th century, racism has sharply spiked in US foreign policy after 1967 (under the guise of religious racism/zionism etc).

 

[acptulsa]

In the 20th century, racism has sharply spiked in US foreign policy after 1967 (under the guise of religious racism/zionism etc).

What? Not only is the U.S. government using racism to divide us against ourselves and distract us from the fact that they're trying to drive us into slavery through the age-old practice of lowering wages and hiking the prices at The Company Store, but Israel's government is using racism to promote the Zionist Agenda?

Why, I believe you just qualified for the label of Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theorist! Good job! Any thinking man would be proud of that accomplishment in this day and age.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

acptulsa, exposing US tax payers funding of open-ended occupation/oppression of Palestinian semitic people and imposition of an apartheid regime is not racially motivated and is entirely religious fanaticism? If so, how do you explain Christian Zionists like this racially challanged "Speaker of Congress" calling for ethnic cleasing of largest semitic group in holy land?

Senior Republican calls on Israel to expel West Bank Arabs

Matthew Engel in Washington
Friday 3 May 2002 20.36 EDT

The most senior Republican in the House of Representatives has called for Palestinians to be expelled from the West Bank, which should be annexed in its entirety by the state of Israel. Dick Armey, majority leader in the House, shocked a primetime television audience when he said in a chat-show interview, that East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza - all occupied by the Israeli army since the 1967 war - should be considered a part of Israel proper.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/04/israel3

Apartheid Regime Police State


This guy is calling for ethnic cleansing of people of his own religion but not of the right chosen race or there is another explanation? Do you believe he is a racist or anti-semite or just pure religious fanatic? How many Christian-Zionists and Atheists-Zionists in US Congress share his beliefs and how many condemned his call?


Hope you will stick with this debate, I would like to understand your views better if you can avoid makling it personal or overly emotional.

 

[acptulsa]

Hope you will stick with this debate, I would like to understand your views better if you can avoid makling it personal or overly emotional.

Doesn't anyone who tries to say what the U.S. government is really doing get labeled a conspiracy theorist? Doesn't anyone who tries to say what the Israeli government is really up to get labeled anti-semitic? Isn't anyone who is sharp enough to see, and honest enough to say, therefore automatically an anti-semitic conspiracy theorist?

You just can't give some people compliments...

 

[enhanced_deficit]

You just can't give some people compliments...

I thought my saracasm often went undetected but you do a much better job at concealing it

Things are clear now.