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Creolemongrel's avatar

In 1493, Columbus arrived in the West Indies. Needles to say it didn’t work out to well for the indigenous Arawaks, Caribs, and Tainos. However, Fr. Bartolomé de las Casas advocated for the indigenous but, as an unforeseen circumstance, ended up promoting black slavery.

Insofar as invasive species go, we see examples in Asian Carp, Snakehead fish, Lionfish, etc that wreak havoc when introduced into an environment where they are not naturally from.

As I ride the ferry from St Thomas to St John in the US Virgin Islands, 99% of passengers are white people. Being a tourist-based economy, this is the financial lifeblood of these territories. Because of this, everything is ridiculously expensive.

One of the continued nuances of most white people I meet here is the disregard and dismissal of people who have been here for generations and tend to be black or more melanated. They are not flat out mean but seem to consider the residents as nuisances who interfere with the vision of America’s Paradise.

It seems that the original invasive species are white people. The genocides, colonization, environmental destruction, and imposition of a capitalist system appears to have had what is probably the most negatively impactful effect in human history. We now see a presidential administration that seems hell bent on causing more issues.

But tell me once again, how DEI is the worst thing to have ever happened…

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Jean Marie Robbins's avatar

Yes Ms. Brown, we have to BUILD and who knows more about building something out of nothing than Black people?

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