Slavery and Racism

The kevin on Disillusioned lefty asked this question. Does racism fed slavery or slavery fed racism. Fiona adds her ideas So here is my view. The definistion of racism on Word Reference.com is the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races. This is wide spread in nearly ever person on the planet I will admit that I am a racist. This is wide spread in nearly ever person on the planet I will admit that I am a racist. Now many of my regular readers may be saying that I’m not and I would say thanks for having faith in me but I would guess that people think that racism is against people of a different skin but it is not it is against people of a different race. Race is defined as people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock. Now if you think about genetic stock can be narrowly defined. I mean my stock is a very confined. My stock comes from Tipperary, Clare, Galway area. Some one from Leitrim is more then likely not out of my genetic stock. One of my racist beliefs is that American’s political views come from what they see themselves. I mean I think that if an American says they are a liberal then they will usually agree with Gay marriage and abortion and most people that says they are conservatives will see themselves as anti Gay marriage and pro-life. That liberals are against the war and conservatives are all for the war. No matter what they really think. I have no proof of this I am basing this on purely on prejudice. In Ireland not many people have moved all over the country so their stock is as limited to certain areas. So when people say Cavan people are stingy that is a racist statement. When people say d4 people are stuck up that is a racist statement. When someone says all that comes out of Wexford is strawberries that is a racist statement. So why do we accept those statements as not been racist and say that the use of the words like nigger and knacker are racist. It is true these words are said as derogatory statements but so is culchie. Culchie is a derogatory term for people from the countryside but it is perfectly accepted to say it in Irish society and nigger is not. Why? The reason I see for this is racism against black people and travellers. By saying that one group can take the use of a derogatory and not the other is saying that we see them as different. This might be a bit of an off the wall theory but I'd like to hear your opinions on it. As for the question itself I think racism inspires slavery