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In reply to the discussion: "Let's work to end racial discrimination" is a better approach than "whites are so privileged". [View all]kwassa
(23,340 posts)The history of the black diaspora is different in every country that it landed in. All of it derived from black slavery, with the sugar plantations in the Caribbean being the first great demand for slaves that fueled the early trade. The only place where blacks ran things was in Haiti after the revolution that threw out the French.
I don't know where in the Caribbean you think that blacks were part of any power structure until recent history. Care to share some examples? As most of these places were European colonies until recent times, the European countries ran things.
In some of those colonies, particularly English ones, other colonial subjects of Indian ancestry were brought into run things. Middle Easterners became merchants there, as well as Chinese, depending on where it was. Blacks were slaves, then free individuals at the bottom of the economic ladder.