I’ll have to write the book later, so for now, some concepts and hard truths: “Racism” as we know it today, is a relatively recent concept, and when manifesting itself as an evil, is invariably connected with the profit motive (greed). Most people, including those educated enough to know better, are woefully ignorant on the subject, and how the reality we percieve around us is affected (poisoned?) by this.
Example:99.9% of English UK citizens will tell you there was no significant population of Blacks there until post WW2 migration. This is balderdash. A huge infusion came with returnees from the Crusades (in those days, Religion was important, the concept of “race” had not solidified yet). This “Black” strain was eventually “bred out” and some removed by reverse forced immigration (such as the incident where alleged “ne’r do-wells”, including Blacks, were swept from the streets of London, herded on to ships seperated by sex.
A Churchman was brought up, “married” the groups on the ships from dockside, whereupon they were banished to the “colonies”. Today, remnants of these Blacks survive in several English surnames, and in some cases, Heraldry. Most of these people are not aware of their Black ancestry, and many family histories were altered during the victorian era. All this kind of stuff is documented, but not taught in British schools, so people are sincerely ignorant of it. (I’m not picking on the Brits, the same goes for much of continental Europe, including France,Italy, etc).
I wont even start about the Welsh (Sorry my Brother Bushy!/;-). When I was a kid, similarly, I was told there were no Black Cowboys/Horse Soldiers because they had never seen them in the “movies”. Eye-rolling ignorance!). The Americans are even worse in this regard, because they know for a fact intersexing has gone on in the USA, but deny it could be in “their” line. The fact that there is no such thing as “race” except as a concept, and by it’s nature, then inexact, contributes to this. The simple fact is that people “assume” race by visual cues, in short “You are what you look”.
This is gospel to the narrow-minded hardhead as well as the casual “matter of fact” racist. It has little to do with the facts, however. There are literally hundreds of thousands of “whites” who have Black ancestry, and even more “Blacks” with white ancestry. Over the last 150years or so, this is seen particularly in the USA, North/East/South Africa, South America, the Middle East and the Carribean. Just because you have blonde hair and blue eyes does not mean there is not one of those hated Blacks in your family woodpile, Bunky (Hello, calling Mr.Cheney & Obama! Heheheh)…
Uncomfortable facts: It has only been within the last 50 or so years where white supremacist theory has been (generally speaking) questioned. There are only a miniscule percentage of whites who question their general equality to Blacks. The vast majority assume they are superior to Blacks, period. It may not be a big issue in everyday life, but they don’t doubt it. It is irrelevant how much or high a Black achieves, some scumball is always waiting in the wings to pull the race card.
There is no country on the planet (including Africa) where the Black man is not reflexively “looked down upon”. I can vouch for this not only from academic study, but from a bit of personal experience. It’s wrongheaded ethnocentrism unsupported by facts, but a reality nonetheless, a poisonous legacy handed down from the sins of the past. One more thing. I laugh cynically at these Blacks who espouse Islam as a better fit. More ignorance!. The Mohhamedeians outdid the crulest European slave traders by several orders of magnitude, and that is no mean feat!. (The Musslmen were particularly fond of castration and pederasty of captive Blacks).
Racists have to dig hard & misrepresent Bible scripture to justify discrimination against Blacks. No problem with the Koran, anti-Negritude is explicitly written in (and don’t try and buffalo me with that stuff about Bilal, I know better). I’m sick and tired of all the racist ignorance in this world. When men with the credentials this eugenics-lover has, runs his mouth like this, and gets applause, it disgusts and dissapoints. What really makes me sick at heart is I cant do a lot to change it, despite all the knowledge I have gained on the subject.
Screw it! Maybe one day I’ll fly in to Wales, train with Bushy, and have him set me up with one of those crazy local girls of questionable heritage. I can get married,live happily ever after, and piss-off the sub-morons in the process…