White vs Black was something that was ripping the United States apart since the arrival of the first slave on the continent
That isn't true, since the first black slaves were brought over by the ethnic group we now call Latinx.
That isn't true, since the first black slaves were brought over by the ethnic group we now call Latinx.
No, they weren't. Latinx (or the equivalent combination of Latino/Latina) is not synonymous with Hispanic, and more to the point, even if it was, the slavers were (by modern American terms) racially White ethnic Hispanics, so it wouldn't change the White/Black racial dynamic.
That’s some pretty impressive mental gymnastics. It’s likely that the crews of those first Portuguese and Spanish slave ships included plenty of mixed Hispanic/North Africans too.
By the way North Africans raided as far as the south coast of England in order to capture slaves of their own.
it wouldn't change the White/Black racial dynamic
The word you are looking for is “narrative”.
I guess I can't keep up with the shifting terminology, are natives considered blacks now then? Isn't that supposed to be BIPOCS?
Actually if we are talking about slaves, then native Americans had been enslaving each other for centuries before Whites or Latinx arrived.
So had the peoples in africa:
>>Very few Americans know that slavery was common throughout the world as well as in Africa, says Sandra E. Greene, History.
https://research.cornell.edu/news-features/curious-history-s...
Oh dear, we have strayed from the narrative and now the Californians are here