Facebook Publication Date: 12/1/2019 7:12

Every year Americans get all up in arms and clutch their pearls when they see the physical manifestations of deep racism in Europe, the most well known of which is Black Pete in the Netherlands.

But Europe as a continent itself has a huge Colonial history, and cannot single out just one or two countries for refusing to reckon with and indeed still trade on and perpetuate racist tropes through their National myths.

Europeans are the OG’s of colonialism, and it is always blown my mind how they feel that they can get off scot-free, and how they often do in terms of looking down their noses at North America for our racism, when they have done precious little to confront and mitigate their own.

It is long overdue that a talk is done about this.

Because that racism taints everywhere: not just the continents that they raped and plundered, all of Africa, all of South America, all of Asia practically, but the attitudes that shape their thinking now, and the insistence on a collective innocence in areas of race that predispose them to become defensive and denying and minimizing when confronted with their role in it both in the past and in the here and now.

Let’s have this conversation.

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