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Originally Posted by Livia
I had the piss ripped out of me at school. They used to sieg heil at me, amongst other things, and try to rhyme insulting stuff with my surname. Same as a girl who's surname was Steptoe. Her life was a misery.... Kids are cruel.
I've worked with a huge number of highly qualified people from all kinds of ethnic backgrounds. So clearly not all black and brown people are being discriminated against.
Also, the slave trade was a 'trade'. White people didn't go into Africa and gather people, they traded stuff with other black people and Arabs. It was ****ed up.... but it was long before any of us were born.
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Well the Roman Catholic church divided the world up in the 15th century and gave Portugal West Africa and all it's trade as they conquered it. There was even a papal decree about reducing populations and keeping the people in perpetual slavery, so it's not true to say white people didn't go in. Africans themselves obviously played their part, but that last bit is definitely misleading.