The fact that you know their background means so Much ... and you may not understand in your life time how fortunate you and them were.
They worked along side black people........ but at any given time could your grandfather get his wife pregnant and have his wife hung from a tree and the baby cut out of her stomach and stomped on in front of the other Bolivian people just to mentally control them?
Was their history damn near erased .........or did they have their language , religion, culture, and ways stolen and replaced with the culture of demons? ? ?
I'm sure they had very little to do with white supremacy and systemic racism ----- But for the fact that you even understand the word systematic, I'm sure you can appreciate that over the last 100 years they have benefited from the system as all so called white people have in this nation. (and at the very least their future generations weren't the perpetual victims of it)
So you can create a screenname lightheartedly like VegasCAC because there is no words that are offensive (in Americakka) to any white ethnic group, including so called Bolivians. There may be names you don't like-- but non are backed by racial policies, a history of mass governmental violence, oppression, media stigmas, the justice system, etc...
^ and this is not even the top of the iceburb of the differences between your grandfathers and the black people who they chose to Come here and work next to.
Well, my great-grandfather's family lived in fukking pig pens, tents, and shacks. They lived in similar economic conditions as black people. But you're right, in the early 1900's they still benefited from being white- there's no denying that. And I'm not saying that they had the same struggles as black people. I'm just saying they were pretty powerless to enforce racism when the black sharecroppers working besides them were usually living just as poorly.
And Bolivians are not a white ethnic group lmao. They're Latin. There are plenty of slurs towards Latin Americans (although most in the US are directed towards Mexicans), and my father growing u was the recipient of many of those racist attitudes. When they moved into a white enclave it wasn't pretty.
Tell me how exactly he was enforcing racism when he was being physically threatened for dating white girls and being called "taco"
Fact is, I never said that my ancestors were as oppressed as black people. I just said they generally didn't or couldn't participate in the propogation of systemic racism.
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