The above was a follow-on response to another blogger, who was talking about the energy required for colonial expansion. Some of my earlier response to that was here:Something I wrote elsewhere might apply her;
"While in Mexico in the late 60's, I met a historian researching slavery there, and he assured me that there were more slaves in Mexico than in the US during the 18th century (or some period therein anyway). With the enormous Hispanic population in the US, as well as the large number of southerners "passing," DNA tests ought to demonstrate that people who qualify as black under America's "one drop" culture would qualify the the USA as a majority black country."
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Since we've been discussing raw physical energy as a means of colonizing, how about considering it from the opposite end AS WELL and as a process of cultural dominance? It's not as though we'll all blend in and be the same one day. That "one day" is looking mightily as though it could miss the bus. The issues are about now. Right at this very moment, America is arguably a black majority country, and numbers are a major driver of energy impacts. What we do with this knowledge makes a big difference in how we see energy." We could be dealing with a kind of reverse coloniaLISM
"While in Mexico in the late 60's, I met a historian researching slavery there, and he assured me that there were more slaves in Mexico than in the US during the 18th century (or some period therein anyway). With the enormous Hispanic population in the US, as well as the large number of southerners "passing," DNA tests ought to demonstrate that people who qualify as black under America's "one drop" culture would qualify the the USA as a majority black country."
http://media.miamiherald.com/.../news/afrolatin/index.htmlSince we've been discussing raw physical energy as a means of colonizing, how about considering it from the opposite end AS WELL and as a process of cultural dominance? It's not as though we'll all blend in and be the same one day. That "one day" is looking mightily as though it could miss the bus. The issues are about now. Right at this very moment, America is arguably a black majority country, and numbers are a major driver of energy impacts. What we do with this knowledge makes a big difference in how we see energy." We could be dealing with a kind of reverse coloniaLISM
What is the role of Colonialism? If the Western hemisphere has now become majority African, how did this happen? Africa wasn't and still isn't a united nation with a mighty conquering military. One must conclude, therefore, that the so called African Empire is the creation of colonialism and its primary responsibility for the transatlantic slave trade. African slavery in the Western hemisphere provided foundational wealth upon which industrial civilization was created. Destroy colonial heritage, and you destroy African heritage at the same time.
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