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whew, good thing they were white!

onefinemess | August 26, 2008

This cracks me up. This is a passage (unfortunately without citation or evidence…what the hell??) from the book I’m reading VERY SLOWLY (a history of Ethiopia): The West explained Ethiopia’s victory through sophistry.  Since racism did not permit Westerners to acknowledge that black men could vanquish whites, Europeans suddenly discovered that Ethiopians were Caucasians darkened by exposure [...]