Hello everyone, What have you been reading?

  • vertexarray [any]
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    4 years ago

    Got my verso gift basket, but before that is The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism by Gerald Horne.

    I'm just through the introduction, which is a quick recap of the creation of whiteness and white supremacy during the 1600s and 1700s, as well as the jockeying and slapfighting of various colonial powers in North America.

    Update: the author takes the time to reinforce how being enslaved didn't propel the english to become empathetic towards their future captives. Also Queen Elizabeth I seems to have been seriously offended by the presence of black people in england, claiming that there are "already here to manie".