Erin
Raleigh, NC
I cannot remember where I got this information from it’s either from visiting “RACE: Are We So Different?” that opened at the National Museum of Natural Science in 2011 or/and Wiki on history of race I researched shortly after my visit to the museum. I learned how in Europe, the nobles needed helping hands to work on their lands and to keep their estates by laboring people. By doing so they created social class/structure where they separate and distinguish themselves from the workers. The more land they had, the more workers needed. Therefore, the slave traders were needed and created. They went out of their country captured indigenous people and sold them to nobles while they make great profits. Since the indigenous people looked different from Europeans it was easier to be introduced as subhumans and it gave them an acceptable excuse to enslave and treat them like subhumans. Racism is a learned behavior that people learned to to see others less than ideal, humans.
