What a very very powerful protest sign...

[Soph0571]

Finding the indigenous population insufficient and Europeans unwilling to endure the hardships involved, it turned to Africa, with the result that, prior to 1820, African settlement exceeded European by a ratio of roughly five to one: 10 million versus 2 million. The typical American settler was not a puritan but a terrified slave, and what the figure looming over him had in his hand was not a Bible but a whip. Howard Temperley

Oppression for 400 years for a community that has been in America a lot longer than the vast majority of the nation. It is just fucking rude right? Think about it, a Polish* great grandfather comes over and settles in hicksville and as a third generation immigrant, an old boy racist descendant thinks he can whitesplain supremacy to a community that had been forcibly settled in America before Poland even knew that America was a place... the old boy racist that thinks that his version of America is the only right white version of America when not so long ago his forebears were **potato farmers in a land far far away. It is astonishing that they have got away with this for so long. Pressing that snooze button indeed.

*any white European nation may apply
** any other low skilled low paid profession may apply

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Hekate]

2. KnR

[5X]

3. We finally get 2020 vision.

[Soph0571]

4. Yeppers

[5X]

5. Hope you don't mind I borrowed the pic.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213573113

[Maxheader]

6. Oppression?

Just ask the native Americans about that....

[Soph0571]

7. Well yes indeed.

The consequences of Empire for indigenous people the world over still reverberate until today - of course unless you are a privileged Brit who right now are desperately trying the avoid the legacy of this even as are young descendants from Caribbean plantations take to the streets in London.

[Maxheader]

9. Thanks for the reply, I checked your bio..

I worked with Brits at Wichita airbus..great guys, pretty conservative

Had a chat with an engineer in great Britain..I don't remember which

city, airheadbus is in a bunch of towns there..This was during the run up to

bush juniors 2nd election..The engineer couldn't understand all the media

concerning this, which I thought was pretty cool..next day he and the family were headed to france,,via the

chunnel...

Excuse my rambling..

[Soph0571]

12. rambling is always allowed!!!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

8. "Europeans unwilling to endure the hardships involved"

other examples of inequality are the meat packing plants where hundreds are sickened or dying form COVID-19 and vegetable pickers across the land endure cruel hardships.

I'm so proud of blacks standing up firm this time and of the others standing with them. It's way past time for white America to face the injustices forced on all non-whites during our entire existence.

Beautiful sign, young lady! Let's hope this time is different.......

[Soph0571]

13. It is the same over and over

Same over here poor and disadvantaged mostly minority communities are the ones dying at the greatest rate from Covid, but are the same ones who are being commanded to attend work or lose state support. I am so proud of our young people. I remember at University when Mandela was released from Robin Island. I have always been an ally of the black community and we were all jubilant - but for most of my peers it was not that big a deal, it was not relevant to their daily lives. Now. This generation. A whole different ball game. They are splendid!

[calimary]

10. I've heard it referred to as America's Original Sin.

Sounds about right. That, and what white settlers did to the indigenous tribes they encountered.

[Soph0571]

14. The first original sin

Was spreading small pox purposefully to the first nation. When you start to build a society on that shit nasty is introduced from day one. You commit genocide on day one, anything else is possible.

[calimary]

16. And you drive them out of their homelands, and cut down the trees, and change the ecosystem.

There was, I think, a National Geographic special running a series of documentaries, about white settlers bringing pigs with them from the old country, and setting them loose - presumably eventually for food. But the pigs did what any animals do - they multiplied, and the species changed over the generations, reverting back to more of an original wild hog strain. I'm not using the exact terminology here, but it suggested the unsupervised breeding of a domestically-bred human-refined species can lead to the species finding its way genetically back to its rougher, original roots - more hair, bigger/longer teeth, darker, coarser fur, and of course, the behavior of the wild, not the domesticated.

Whites came in and up-ended everything, imposing their way of life on what was already working well, harmoniously, and naturally, HERE. With no thought other than domination, conquering, and clearing out.

[brer cat]

11. K&R

[tblue37]

15. K&R for visibility. nt