Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "Tom Nicholas"
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@lubu2960 nu person chiming in here- yes I'm by no means an expert but I have heard due to the conquest by the Spanish invaders in the 16th C., whiteness became a prized trait and has historically been viewed as more desirable, granting one access to the higher rungs of society. I don't know if this was true for everyone everywhere in South America, but this has been my impression that a prejudice in favor of whiteness was present. I imagine that even today there are lingering effects of this throughout the regions, considering these social realities presumably existed to a greater or lesser degree for 100s of years. There certainly is the case here in the US. I mean, it still amazes me when I look back over the last 400 years just how extreme and entrenched the policies of Black slavery (and later 100 years give or take of Jim Crow), and Native American removal/annihilation became amongst those who carried them out, and their sympathizers in the public.
The legacy of bigotry and white supremacy in the South still holds strong with a fair-sized segment of the population today unfortunately. You can see this in a lot of subtle and not-so-subtle ways, altho people are fighting back and this is changing, some in more symbolic ways and some more substantial.
I can only hope in time this prejudiced racialized nonsense will continue to die off, and not be replaced by getting passed down to the next generation as it has been in too many cases so far. I do think we're finally turning a corner on the last holdouts of bigotry and ignorance here, at least in the public sphere, altho it's by no means over. We still have a long ways to go to marginalize a major political party called the GOP, one whom openly courts racism and xenophobia in it's voters and members and leads attacks on voting rights for POC. We still have a lot of work to do to dismantle the system of mass incarceration, a racially-motivated system of oppression that has been in place now for 40 years, craftily begun under Reagan and carried out faithfully in many states since. There's still a LOT of hard work ahead of us to be done before anything like full equality, dignity and opportunity can be said to exist for ALL US citizens regardless of their color or financial background- and that is a shame. It sure as shit shouldn't be taking this long- but it is. (I'm sure there will probably always be some people who will refuse to give up their carefully-held prejudice for whatever reason, but as long as they keep it to themselves and don't use it as an excuse for violence, I can live with it.)
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