Apologies accepted, man lol
I agree capitalism is evil. Even if it wasn’t invented by white people, it would still be evil.
So you also recognize capitalism is a ‘root of racism’? Care to explain this from a white mans perspective? I’m interested
Well, first time the racism or race was brought up in a big way, was when the slave trade really started. The slave traders wanted to justify their doings by labeling the black Africans as some sort of lower form of humans. Lazy, dumb, etc. As people who must be forced to do something productive. And the slave trade was one of the first capitalist manifestation, it gave a huge boost to a whole system. It was about the free labor as I've wrote earlier. Most of the North America's and Europe's wealth is because of the slaves. Slaves build cities and railways, and also made capital for their owners by working for example in plantations without any pay. All the fruits of their labor went for the slave owners. And the slave business lasted so long that it kind of normalized the racism. It was normal to see black people serving rich white people. Later on it became easier to oppress the black people as so many saw them as a lower form of humans anyway. Like the late Trinidadian ex-PM Eric Williams once said: "Slavery was not born of racism. Rather, racism was the consequence of slavery."
Before the great African slave trade the black Africans (Nubians, etc.) and people from Mediterranean empires did make business together all the time with no problems. Romans had slaves, but most of them were white (Eastern Europeans) and a results of the wars they had against each others.
Capitalism is also a root of basically all of the wars, the weapon industry is a huge business. And wars destroy nations, sending masses of people to flee to peaceful countries with proper living conditions. And as that happens, the locals get mad, because they think the immigrants should just stay in their own countries. Even though most of the time, those countries are destroyed by the West in the name of financial profits. So also in that sense, the capitalism is the root cause of racism.
And of course the global capitalism keeps poor countries poor, so that some idiots in Western world can tell how bad those poor (black) people really are. Like "look at their countries, they can't do anything right", when in reality those countries are never even let to stand on their feets. Those countries are only a resource pools for the Western world.
In my mind, the capitalism absolutely needs racism to exist. The Western world must keep thinking that we are better than all the rest, and that's why we deserve all the luxury instead of the poor people in Asia or Africa. We like to think that those "lazy people" should just work harder to get to the same point as the Western world. The same excuse comes up nationally, too. The problem is always the laziness - never the unfair power structure or taxation or whatever real reason behind the poverty.