[KDJohnBrown]

This is simultaneously a fair point (the Portugeuse were the first slavers) and a miscategorization (puritans/white european invaders were quite racist and violent from the moment they landed on Plymouth rock and began stealing from / killing Natives).

[goatinaboat]

puritans/white european invaders were quite racist and violent from the moment they landed on Plymouth rock and began stealing from / killing Natives

I guess I can't keep up with the shifting terminology, are natives considered blacks now then? Isn't that supposed to be BIPOCS?

Actually if we are talking about slaves, then native Americans had been enslaving each other for centuries before Whites or Latinx arrived.

[nix23]

>native Americans had been enslaving each other for centuries before Whites or Latinx arrived.

So had the peoples in africa:

>>Very few Americans know that slavery was common throughout the world as well as in Africa, says Sandra E. Greene, History.

https://research.cornell.edu/news-features/curious-history-s...

[goatinaboat]

So had the peoples in africa:

Oh dear, we have strayed from the narrative and now the Californians are here

[nix23]

Yes they vote everything down if it's not Pink Pony compatible...and yet my OS is from Berkeley ;)