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 [...]