Jerry Monaco wrote: >> If one result of electing America's first African American president is that >> people of color are more likely to support U.S. imperialism and violence >> then we should count this as a bad result. > raghu wrote: > That ignores the one factor that has always characterized imperialism > in all of its different forms since the 18'th century: the white man's > exploitation of non-white peoples. (Japan in the 1930's being the > exception that proves the rule..) > > An imperialism supported by people of color is an oxymoron.
I disagree. It's like the contrast between modern slavery in the southern US (up to 1865) and ancient Roman slavery. The former was legitimated largely by the fact that the slaves belonged to an "inferior race." The latter was not: the slaves were mostly people who came from areas that to the Romans in war. If slavery can exist without racism, why not imperialism? -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
