The Dutch Empire, Slavery, and Historical Memory

@athousandyoung said
Or Cornell West who Duchess64 likes to use as an example of a real Black American:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cornel_West#/media/File:Cornel_West_by_DW_Nance_5_(cropped2).jpg

Ya, the same poster that *shamelessly claims* that I am not black?? Interesting.

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Yet you consistently tell people they aren't Black when the US Census would accept them as Black.

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Everyone is lying except you.
Everyone is wrong except you.

Come to the Netherlands. It’s all very well being an armchair general, me thinks you need to experience life for real. I’m pretty sure, whoever you are, you’ll be perfectly safe walking the streets of Breda or Rotterdam. And nobody will discriminate against you.
Everyone will serve you food and should you trip, people will help you on to your feet.

And nearly nobody’s heard of your Coen (which, should you wish to query about whilst you’re eating your babi pangang and drinking Asahi, remember to quote the full name and that Coen is pronounced “koon” ).

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I’m a white male born and raised in the American south. Racial prejudice definitely abounds, but again, knows no racial barriers. Supporting burning someone alive and pulling their flesh from them while they are slowly burning is a lot bigger issue than being so ignorant as to refer to other races of people with racial slurs or suspicion, or desiring to stay away from them.

My anscestors were very poor, illiterate white sharecroppers. I suspect their involvement in the Civil War had more to do with the notion commonly passed to them that they would lose their shares of crops if they didn’t “win the war” than it was to prop up free labor slaves provided the ultra-wealthy.

Probably also there were deep seated fears of replacing the enslaved peoples at the very bottom of the “social ladder” that was a contributing factor to many poor, uneducated southern whites joining the “southern cause.”

The very wealthy greatly benefitted off the backs of black, Irish, and Chinese labor all across America. They benefitted off the short, hard lives of poor whites, too.

Again—history. Not debate.

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Got it.

Praying for peace. Good night, Duchess.

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Like you so often do, you're confusing the totalitarian government of China with Chinese citizens. How powerful China is as a government is no reflection of the state of Chinese citizens, especially given it's authoritarianism. Just ask the Uighurs

So even if the Chinese government, as you claim, is a feared rival, In U.S. media, Chinese businessmen still carry stereotypes of lowly, humble workers, compared to the stereotype of the Japanese businessman.