Please, Ive been doing a lot of studies on this subject of slavery, and how to affects our present day life, especially in the case of racism.
Racism is found everywhere today, especially against blacks.
So I wanted to know, please I there a connection between slavery and racism?
A very important question.
Slavery is a fact of how an individual is held and required to work for his/her master. Racism is obnoxious behavior toward an individual or group of individuals based on their race. There is some speculation that once a group of people has been held in slavery, it is easier for others to treat them in a racist way. It is also true that the same prejudice which would allow one to hold a human being in slavery could also express itself in racist behavior.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for giving a response to this question. Hmm, well said. This really does justice to the question. Just like in the Bible where the Israelite were held in slavery in Egypt, and later on the Romans saw them as an inferior race. And it was a shock to find out that the Savior of the whole world came from that 'inferior' race.
Thanks a lot. This opens my eyes to the link between slavery and racism.
Originally, slavery had nothing to do with racism either in the ancient world or in colonial North America, but simply existed as an economic arrangement favoring those who enslaved forced labor. In the classical world, victorious armies often enslaved captives of war. Moreover, debtors who could not work off their debts found themselves sold into slavery. However, when a group of people with identifiable racial characteristics had been in slavery for a several generations, their physical characteristics helped them be more easily identified as slaves:
Yes. Slavery is not a new thing. It has been going on forever. So we have either voluntary slavery or involuntary slavery to sum up what you mentioned. I tried to get people to understand my post with the understanding that this was NOT voluntary slavery at all. We did not come willingly or to seek a better life as Mr. Carson stated.
Hmm. Very true. I believe Mr Carson was trying to sugar coat what he knew was slavery. Immigration is voluntary, while slavery is involuntary.
Thanks so much @humanearl and @blessing2002 for the answers. They really helped alot.
I just pray this movement will not end here, but will get to a lot of people for we need this mindset restructuring.
I feel racism is a consequence of slavery. Because people of black skin were forced into slavery, and their lands exploited, this led to a stigma being placed on people of that skin color.
That's where racism gets its power from.
Also because those lands were exploited, it is kind of much harder for those lands to catch up with those in the west. And because of thus 'backwardness' it seems to give fuel to racism.
I feel this is the connection.
The Scramble For Africa
Racism and slavery known to black people in America has a big brother. His name is WHITE SUPREMACY. You see black bodies are seen as disposable. This is why it is easy for cops to gun us down without consequence most of the time. We are seen as disposable or non human which is why so many justified enslaving us.
Many times ethnic groups that tend to see themselves better as another ethnic group will see the "lesser" group as disposable. This can lead to not only slavery but genocide, torture, discrimination, etc.
This is just so unfortunate.I really loved the video on 'scramble for africa'. The funniest part of the whole thing is that it all starts as a little dissatisfaction with a person of color, probably because of that person's behavior, and before you know it, a generalized mindset based on this fallacy is planted, and thenb to the generalize mindset that all people of color are that way, and this grew grow to bigger things like hatred and slavery.