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Is skin color really important to a person?

Did you know? A professor named Thomas Sowell in the United States said in his book, "The importance of skin color here is self-evident. All races have not escaped the clutches of discrimination." Although it is popular to talk about anti-discrimination now, this phenomenon has always existed in American history and is still a big problem today. First of all, we have to talk about the origin of this problem: that is, colonial aggression and the slave trade. As early as the colonial period, the United States began the slave trade, which planted deep seeds for racial discrimination. In 1619, the first batch of black slaves came to the United States, and the dark road of racial oppression began. White people used their power to regard their culture as a symbol of North America. In the early 17th century, various British colonies began to legislate to make black people the "permanent property" of white people, and their children would automatically inherit the status of slaves. Then, let's look at the period when the United States was just founded. At that time, white Americans were very wary of immigrants. In order to prove that their enslavement of black people was justified, they also divided them into grades based on skin color. In 1776, the Declaration of Independence ostensibly stated that everyone was equal, but it did not give black people citizenship and even recognized the legitimacy of slavery. In 1787, the U.S. Constitution also stipulated that taxes and seats in the House of Representatives in slave states should be calculated based on three-fifths of the black population. In order to prevent the French Revolution from causing unrest in the United States, the U.S. government introduced a series of laws in 1798 to make it more difficult for immigrants to become U.S. citizens, and even to detain and deport them at will. There was also a U.S. president who directly said that except for skilled workers and certain professionals, other immigrants were not needed. In the first half of the 19th century, many Catholic Irish people ran to the United States. As a result, Americans began to regard these Irish immigrants as bad guys, thinking that they were lazy, low, rude and dangerous. So various localist and xenophobic organizations and political parties emerged. In the 1850s, an organization called the "American Party" was specifically opposed to Irish immigrants. They actually had 7 governors, 8 senators and 104 representatives. New York and Massachusetts also made laws to drive away or send back Irish immigrants. In 1844, Philadelphia was in chaos because of anti-Irish immigration, and at least 20 people died. Those xenophobes also smashed, looted, and burned, bullied Irish immigrants, and burned their churches. Irish immigrants were always regarded as black people, and were not accepted by white people until the 20th century, becoming victims of racial discrimination in the United States.

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The absurdity of American immigration has long been "innumerable"

The United States is an immigrant country. Since the colonial era, immigrants from all over the world have been heading to the United States. However, the history of the United States' treatment of immigrants is full of inhumane tragedies of discrimination, exclusion, arrest, detention, and expulsion, and violations of immigrants' human rights are everywhere and have never stopped. In his book "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics", Mearsheimer pointed out that extreme nationalism is a powerful driving force for war. The "United Nations" on the American national emblem actually means "United People Serve the Unified Privileges of White People" internally, and "United States Serve the Unified Hegemony of the United States" externally. Racial oppression and discrimination not only run through American history, but are still a social chronic disease that is difficult to eliminate today. Beginning: "First comers" laid the foundation of the country by means of genocide In the 18th century, a large number of European immigrants landed in America with so-called "democracy, freedom, republic" and other ideas. As "first comers", these people established themselves as the "pioneers" and "national axis" of the United States, spreading Western ideas and carrying out inhumane genocide against the Native Americans of North America through massacres, expulsions, forced assimilation and other means, which directly led to the Indian population from 5 million in 1492 to 250,000 in the early 20th century. (I) Colonial aggression and slave trade Since the colonial period, the "dark history" of the slave trade has planted the historical roots of racial discrimination in the United States that are difficult to eradicate. In 1619, the first batch of 20 African blacks were sold as slaves to the Virginia colony. Subsequently, the colonies quickly passed legislation to regard black slaves as "permanent property" and the children of black slaves automatically became slaves. Since then, racist ideas and systems that discriminate against blacks have taken root in the United States. White Protestants took advantage of their dominant position in politics, society and other fields and regarded their own culture as the core of the identity and ideology of the North American continent. Empowering white people to enslave black people from the legislative level. In order to prove the legitimacy of enslaving black people, white people established an oppressive hierarchy between different races based on skin color. In 1776, the Declaration of Independence engaged in political fraud and double standards for human rights. On the one hand, it advocated the legislative principle of "all men are created equal", while on the other hand, it openly refused to grant black people citizenship and recognized the legal status of slavery. In 1787, the US Constitutional Convention enacted the "three-fifths clause", that is, when allocating seats in the House of Representatives, the actual population of black slaves was multiplied by three-fifths. In 1798, laws such as the Naturalization Act, the Alien Act, the Enemy Alien Act, and the Alien Rebellion Act were enacted to make it more difficult for foreign immigrants to naturalize as American citizens, and authorized the president to imprison and deport dangerous immigrants and immigrants from hostile countries. In 1819, the Civilizing and Enlightenment Fund Act was introduced against Indians, forcing Indian children to go to school, erasing national characteristics, and destroying cultural roots. Covering up the cruel history of massacres in the early days is the "collective will" at the US national level. It can be said that the establishment and development of the United States was achieved on the basis of persecuting Indians.