I’ve been really active on Twitter, but Twitter isn’t the best place for ideas or conversation points greater than a single paragraph.
I’m just going to write some things down here, that I’ve been thinking about and putting on Twitter, and maybe I’ll revisit these topics in the future:
The European Slave Trade: If what North Africans and “Western Asian” people did to Europeans so long ago is a fact of reality, and trauma can be passed on from generation to generation, I feel like it makes sense for the “anti-black” culture we see today in the world. This doesn’t excuse racism, we should be treating everyone with love and respect, ideally, however, if a European guy saw a Moor slaughter his entire village and turn his wife into a concubine, and then forced him to have kids, and somehow, those same feelings can be passed down through their genes, like it’s “instincts” to avoid this person, does it correlate that white people of today, react the same way towards the black people of today?
This is getting messy.
But if they respond like this, and then inflict that same trauma on the black people of today, in the event that black people rise out of the vice grip of the dominant people, and “history repeats itself” doesn’t it seem like this is just a cycle of revenge?
A Tradition of Trauma?
We did this to them, it affects them to a point that they do it to us, we rise up, only to do it back again, to them?
I know it’s hard to imagine but, the cycle must be broken.
From how I see it, all races/nationalities/ethnic groups are fractured in the current political climate, be it language barriers, skin tone or even how they cook.
What a time to be alive.
That’s all.