LogFAQs > #941109620

PyroBlade1985 posted...

I take it back. You ARE the Zeus of the left.

...what? If you think Mead is somehow my antithesis, you greatly misunderstand me, sir. He's really more of a frenemy when he doesn't have me ignored/blocked or vice versa.

Muscles posted...

I think slavery was product of racism, not the other way around so no, they are effected by continuing racism

Maybe I'm wrong but to me it seems like slavery isnt the cause but a separate symptom of a bigger issue

Technically American slavery was the product of indentured servitude which was color-blind, but over time became increasingly racial.

Whether racism predates all slavery or vice versa is trickier, because both slavery and racism have long histories. However, forms of slavery were practiced in societies with only one race so the two aren't necessarily linked all the time even if the word "slave" is derived from "Slav" and references to the taking of Slavic people into bondage by outside groups, particularly Muslims.

BlackScythe0 posted...

Eh the roots are from Spain and Portugal being the first to seriously colonize the new world and being knowledgeable about the african slave trade and using bible verses to justify it.

The system of slavery in the US started with the extension of indentured servitude, which was non-racial.

---

(\/)(\/)|-|
There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist.