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How we got here

How the US and the world got to the point, we need to confront the racial prejudice and hate. The used of Africans and race as slave historically is quite new, about 900 years, but used of slaves has been a mark to all humans, Rome (in this case after the fall of Cartage to Rome, the wealth and the slaves corrupted the Republic and set for Military Dictatorship of Proconsul and empire(Carl  C., 1984. The Romans, University of California Press; Ducan M., 2017. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the Roman Republic, Public Affairs New York; Watts E.J., 2018. Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny, Basic Books) ), the Greek City states and case of Athens Mines of Laurion about 50 Km own by the city was mined used of slaves and not just Athens, but Spartan Society own identity (i.e. helots) in some ways the Southern States in US identity based owning Slaves, while was not just Sparta or Athens, but Greeks cities economy in Slave driven force (Durant W., 1939.The Life of Greece, MJF Books; Freeman C., 1999. The Greek Achievement, Viking), while not unique, from the Middle East Code Hammurabi, did not stop China or India creation of cast system codified the Aryans invasion-immigration from the North (the region included Persia) (Anthony D W., 2007. The Horse The Wheel And Language. How Bronze-Age Riders From the Eurasian Steppes Shaped The Modern World. Princeton University Press), a common factor the slaves were war prisoners and debtors.

How Africa become source slaves appear during the expansion of Islam to Africa, the first Islamic city in Africa was Fustat (641 A.D.) served is administrative power in Egypt, until it was ordered burnt in 1168 by its own vizier, Shawar, to keep its wealth out of the hands of the invading Crusaders, one function when Islam expanded south of today Egypt encounter the Nubia by them was a Christian, request from Fustat was to send 500 slaves per year, this was beginning of the trade in Africa, and transfer to the center of Islam of the time Baghdad, which we have first slave Rebellion, the Zanj Rebellion was a major black-slave revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate, which took place from 869 until 883. Begun near the city of Basra in present-day southern Iraq and led by one Ali ibn Muhammad the insurrection involved enslaved Bantu-speaking people (Zanj) who had originally been captured from the coast of East Africa principally to drain the region's salt marshes. The Zanj, who were primarily used for agricultural labor as part of the plantation economy of southern Iraq. The demand for servile labor during this period was fueled by wealthy residents of the port city of Basra, who had acquired extensive marshlands in the surrounding region. These lands had been abandoned as a result of peasant migration and repeated flooding over time (Waines, David, ed.,1992. The History of al-Ṭabarī, Volume XXXVI: The Revolt of the Zanj, A.D. 869–879/A.H. 255–265. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press).

In the next step of this long painful, needed to said we all come from Africa around 200000 years, since we are mix not just Homo sapiens, but mixed other like Homo neanderthalensis, which split from Homo Sapiens around 700000.

After Portugal expulsion of Muslim in 1496 by Manuel I, the Portuguese look ways to bypass Islam in Africa, with the fall of Constantinople 29 May 1453 to Ottomans closed supplied line of slaves from Asian Steps, which tended to be white, Portugal not only look for gold which has in the hand of Islamic Mali, with the Republic of Venice looking for sources eventually Portugal found the perfect settlement in São Tomé and Príncipe, give contact with Kingdom of Angola, which had not contact with Islam, since Norther Africa and certain sections of Central Africa, Portugal found hostile because being Christians in Islam territory.

Kingdom of Angola provided the slaves to Portuguese, while gold become outreach, an innovation the created experiment of plantation, using Sugar Cane,  São Tomé location in Equator provided the Caribbean experiments where monoculture in case Sugar Cane, to provided wealth this wealth become source Capital used to drive  Industrialization in Europe, London become Capital source, from Portugal,  Spain, Bristol, Bordeaux, Antwerp to Amsterdam driving capital as exploration of other humans (the capital for Newcome Engine 1712 and follow the corporation created from patents, were intertwined with slave trade).

While, the Caribbean plantations become source and wealth, the slave rebellion in today Haiti, expulsion of the French, the economic has been felted in the poverty of the country, the fear in other colonies, in US south with Scott rebellion, and the fact Spanish Florida, with Freetown builder by runaway slaves, pushed the expansion to stop, many grip of the land US was to maintain Plantation Economy, Colonies rebellion against Crown had to do Mercantile Economy, colonies provided the raw material for made products, the industrial revolution began provide the Science and technology, began to bypasses the raw materials and economy of plantations become non-essential, British began to distance and dismantle, the reaction of colonies was to maintain the plantation, as Sparta dealt with slaves, the US white population had disdain towards their own slaves percolated through all the areas of Society, the  attitude can be found in Southern States, where taken advantage of others due to privilege, Arendt describe Cecil Rhodes in his last statement, in establishing the Rhodes Scholarship in Oxford  to advance the Anglo-Saxon (white power or white entitlement), the Southern States try this in case Nicaragua a place to maintain slavery in perpetually.

The plantations survived by moving to cotton, and the closed of the human trade, US pass laws where slaves become perpetual, and attitude of entitlement was not access to support, only one group will absorbed all the benefices, from education to health care, the US disdain to anyone who can´t advantage the system, will deny any support, the heartless of the society, can be result today of the white supremacist white house, the Republican party become white supremacist.

After the civil war, the South work to maintain the slaves by working separated society, where African Americas were limited to what could be, limited access, and violence using policy (policy in US created to dominated and control the slaves) method of control.

The reason change happen, not because change of heart but demographics becoming whites another minority diminishing, but still strong hold in economics and power, George Floyd lynching and the narcissism of the white elites denying the Pandemic, but the illusion of power its if you can control narrative, which is not the case, the Virus (DNA material rapped in protein) could not be stop, we, humans are intruded in the environment, due Increased temperatures from Human Activity, Arctic open Methane Gas,  Bush Fires in Australia, Civil War in Syria, which drought force farmers into city, with not Jobs, looking for answers produce a clash.  

The Nephew of Darwin created Eugenics to advance Anglo-Saxon, the point system limited immigration to US, not to 1963 the policy change, but more important used as covert to maintain a racial inequality, up to them the society try to Justify by using biblical explanations, but science dismantle influence of Religion, Pseudo-Science of Eugenics become Justification in name Hygienic, the National Socialist in their Racial Utopia, rationalized the Antisemitism, but the lessons learned in US rationalization to Racist society, the economics become about power and identity.

While Marxist do not understand the identity is appealing to human yearn of belonging, this become the central of identity, since people need of community and community become exclusion, to Napoleon time recognition was given by Aristocrats which power claim by God, Napoleon secularized, this force other source justification in this case Pseudo-Science of Eugenics.