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Actually, the foundations go back to the beginnings of the African slave trade.  Prior to the African slave trade, enslavement was not an act of racism.\n\nIn the past slaves were criminals, children sold by their parents, or prisoners captured in war time.  In some asian and middle eastern cultures such slaves are still openly traded (official government positions are that it is illegal, but the laws are not enforced).\n\nWhen Britain banned the enslavement of British residents in the 16th century , slave traders needed to find a new source of slaves.  They discovered that African tribes were willing to sell members of their tribes and thus began the trade of African slaves in the western world.\n\nThe reason that the trade of British residents was outlawed was because the church had concluded that slavery was incompatible with Christian Values.  In order to reconcile the trade of African Slaves with their Christian beliefs the British and later the French looked for evidence that Africans were not fully human.  They used everything from the way they stood to the fact that they had no written language to justify their stance that Africans were not fully human.\n\nAs African slaves learned to speak English and as some learned to read and write the slaves began to produce intelligent ideas into the culture both in Europe and in the American colonies.  This disproved the theory that Africans were less than human. \n\nThe new justification for holding African slaves became converting them to Christianity.  This justification could be validated until the international slave trade was banned by Britain in the late 18th century and by the rest of Europe and the United States in the early 19th century.  Within a generation nearly all African slaves had converted to Christianity.  \n\nAfter 300 years of African slavery, that enslavement was deeply rooted into the cultures and into the economies of Europe and the United States.  \n\nAbolitionist groups had begun forming in the late 18th century, but in the early 19th century their support bases grew quickly. Abolitionist papers were published openly in the U.S. and underground in most European countries.  \n\nIn the Mid 19th century western countries began outlawing the ownership of slaves.  Britain was the first (It was outlawed, but the trade continued in their colonies), followed by the other countries of western Europe.  It was only in the United States that the ending of slavery resulted from a war.  \n\nThe former owners of slaves and those who were too poor but had envied slave holders turned on the newly freed slaves particularly in the United States.  The KKK for example was formed as a political action group to eliminate republican party candidates from national offices but changed their focus to persecuting freed slaves after the civil war.  \n\nIn response to the racist propoganda Black advocate groups such as the NAACP were formed.   \n\nDuring reconstruction many freed slaves moved to northern cities.  Shortly after reconstruction a recession occured and there were accusations that blacks were taking the jobs of white men. Added to the tension was the fact that many of the whites in those cities had rarely or never seen a black person. Fueled by the propoganda put out by racist groups, fights broke out between blacks and whites.  These among other incidents led to the "seperate but equal supreme court decision" which at the time was supported by most black advocate groups.\n\nThe early twentieth century brought more conflict as Black advocate groups tried to enforce the equal part of "Seperate But Equal".  The racist groups fought back and gained support as Whites became defensive about their treatment (as a whole) of blacks.\n\nWhen the stock market crashed and a drought devestated the mid west, the focus of hate groups turned from the blacks in the cities to Mexican field hands in California and blacks came to be more accepted by society since they w
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If I understood your question I would answer. :(
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Um... if you really have to ask that question, then the answer is:\nYes
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Thats a very good question.
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