sudan
B.E. Specialist
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Post by sudan on Jan 22, 2007 2:59:36 GMT -5
Ideas of race superiority, made moral by a hierarchical religion, "whitewashed" to reflect the preference of the rulers, became institutionalized in Western culture once Germanic races gained power by overthrowing the Roman Empire and adopting Christianity. By the 1900s, the colonial powers of Europe, together with the U.S, controlled half of what they described as "newly discovered" areas of the world, and over a third of its population (Delavignette 1964:1).
This idea of superiority led to the "race-specific" Atlantic slave trade in which over 40 million people were killed. A similar idea led to the genocide of the American Indians and other indigenous groups in all these "newly discovered" white-settler areas, over 50 million "savages" were killed by the "civilized" West (Zinn 1990:1). American "National security" sanitized by ideas about "our superior way of life," led to the civilian bombings of Vietnam and Cambodia by orders of Harvard educated elite, killing millions again. South Africa similarly used "national sovereignty," as an excuse to protect its apartheid regime. www.geocities.com/globalghettoasadi.org/
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Post by dolphinfan on Feb 3, 2007 12:37:21 GMT -5
So true, so true.
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