Post by @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

For Black folk that didn't grow up speaking Spanish *only*:

Question:
* Why don't the other South American fans like Argentina?

* Why do so many of the good and kind players and fans from Argentina ♥️🕊️make such a big point of being vocally anti-racist?

* Why did nazis choose Argentina?

Why do most countries in South America have people that are Black, white, indigenous, and mixed, but Argentina (and Uruguay) seem super white?

Answer:

Blanqueamiento.

History tends to only talk about the ethnic cleansing campaigns that *almost* worked. It skips over ones that *did* work

GrosseFatigue ⏚

@Superspindoctor@mamot.fr 3 hours ago

@mekkaokereke
Paraguay => Nueva Germania 🙄

JohnnieMac

@JohnnieMac@mastodon.scot 9 hours ago

@mekkaokereke Thank you for sharing. It is by learning about these injustices that we can recognize new ones and work together to not let them take root in our communities.

Omar Antolín

@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz 12 hours ago

@mekkaokereke You're missing an a, it's "blanqueamiento".

mekka okereke :verified:

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io 9 hours ago

@oantolin
Fixed!

Ruud Steltenpool

@steltenpower@social.edu.nl 13 hours ago

@mekkaokereke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanqueamiento

Blanqueamiento - Wikipedia

mekka okereke :verified:

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io 13 hours ago

Look up what Argentina's Blanqueamiento policies were, to understand the context of why soccer games between Argentina and Brazil, have so much subtext.

And why good Argentinian players and fans make this face when one of their players does a racism.

mekka okereke :verified:

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io 13 hours ago

And lest you think I'm judging Argentina and saying that their country is bad, and the US is good,

Blanqueamiento was mainly 1860 to 1914. Most Argentinians today that know about Blanqueamiento, say it was horrific.♥️🕊️

By contrast, the Alt-Right was founded to do US Blanqueamiento, right now.🤡

mekka okereke :verified:

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io 13 hours ago

Blanqueamiento (rough translation, whitening), was a set of policies intentionally designed to:

* Increase the Black + indigenous death rate
* Decrease the Black + indigenous birth rate
* Eliminate non-white immigration
* Increase white immigration

In order to turn Argentina more white.

It worked.

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Deep Mud

@deepmud@mas.to 11 hours ago

@mekkaokereke don't let's forget that the Catholic Church helped a whole bunch of Nazis escape to argentina. And is it really silly to suggest it caused this?

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Katerina Marchán

@zkat@fedi.zkat.tech 12 hours ago

@mekkaokereke Cuba and Puerto Rico did the same thing starting 1815 until the US took over, with the Real Cédula de Gracias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Decree_of_Graces_of_1815

It’s why PR folks are often relatively white and has a lot to do with why Afro-boricuas are de-emphasized/erased from our past and present.

Conversely: Cuba ended up being very Black after the revolution because so many of the white people, who were often plantation owners, fled to Miami (and why Miami Cubans are… well, how they are)

Royal Decree of Graces of 1815 - Wikipedia

mekka okereke :verified:

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io 13 hours ago

You don't have to wonder what it was like living under Argentinian Blanqueamiento.

If you are in the US, you are living through a Blanqueamiento period right now.

A white nationalist wrote the US Blanqueamiento policies, and called his organization "The Alt-Right."

Most white Americans voted for it🤷🏿‍♂️

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112440450555443222

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