| First of all, I meant black people in USA Secondly, we must set some basic rules when discussing about complex topics such is this one. The first rule is that if you are not a descendant of African slaves, you can't speak in their name. And even if you are, I doubt you can speak for all of them. Just like I don't speak on behalf of every Italian, living or dead. The second is that I descend from Romans, but I can't teach Roman history better than a scholar who studied it in Australia. My grandfather was a tailor, I know nothing about tailoring, so "are you trying to explain X to the descendants of Y" 200 years later doesn't qualify as an argument. I could well be a descendant from Africans more than any American who's been living there for more than 3 generations. During WW2 where my family comes from, the "Marocchinate" ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marocchinate ), there's even a movie about it it's called Two Women in English, La Ciociara in Italian, Sophia Loren was in it and won the academy award as best actress. I look like a North African, which is not a typical trait of my family's, so who knows what really happened. I don't hate Moroccan people, I don't hate black people, it's in the past, Moroccans I know are not responsible for it and when I go to a bar to have breakfast and someone orders a Moroccan coffee I don't feel offended because 80 years ago a lot of women were killed and raped in my home region. The popular word slave is a problem only for a small fraction of the world population, when I was a kid and learnt about slaves in Egypt that built the pyramids I dreamt about being one, so I got to build pyramids. Our history books are full of stories about slavery, dating back thousands years before our lord and saviour Jesus. The world slave applied to tools is quite common and it never bothered me nor did it make me a racist, the contrary is in fact true, I was usually bullied when I was younger by US military personnel stationed in my country (we have been somewhat colonized by US, you know...) because my family was communist. I say was because the Italian communist party doesn't exist anymore, but my family is still communist. It's ok in Italy, we don't eat kids, we don't pray to Stalin, we don't send people to Gulags. We have a millenarian history, we don't pretend everybody shares it, please don't pretend your sensitivity is global, because it is not. The point is that you can't link US slavery and today's racism in US with master/slave applied to inanimated things, because it's wrong, Sumerian already used it 4 thousands years ago. Everyday I kill orphans which are made orphans by killing their parent on my computer, that didn't make me a serial killer. |