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ritta1310: s-n-arly: monsterpeanut: monsterpeanut: monsterpeanut: redsuns-n-orangemoons: kwamenace: bleck-excellence: pharoah-tahan: alwaysbewoke: History books always seem to leave this out. Don’t let them tell you that slaves are our only history. When black people ruled the world History repeats itself And who said moors weren’t black? These are fantastic who painted these???GOOGLE HALP EDIT: ludwig deutsch <3 yaaay Look at those fucking details!!! Look how he makes the light bounce off of the skin, the eyes not pure white but reflecting the colors. Each and every FUCKING CHAIN is painted and highlighted.The folding of the fabric aaaaaaaaaaa Oh my goodness these are gorgeous.Why did we learn nothing of these people and their culture in history? Why was all of Africa treated as one big country with no true artistic, scientific and historic significance or accomplishment (with the exception of Egypt, which was whitewashed)? Portugal was also conquered by the Mouros (although we are usually left out because we are smaller that Spain) and we talk about it a lot. They had a lot of impact on our culture, most of our towns, including the one I live in was named by them, a lot of our architecture, cusine, math (Arabs pretty much made math) culture, and habits and more importantly our language (not to mention a bunch of castles and monuments that are some of the most important in our country).Still we have a racist system that privileges white people, mostly because of a war against our colonies in Africa, that we were FORECED to have by our dictator government at the time, in order to keep them. Even though most portuguese people did not want that and wanted to give them their righfull freedom we where in a dictatorship and were forced to fight. And this was not that long ago. Some of my teachers and my great uncles fought there, of the them actually fled to France because of it. But this set a racist percent that still happens today and people from our former colonies (Angola, Mozambique, Cape verde) are still mostly on the lower socio-economical status, and suffer with prejudice by law enforcement and people of power, and regular people as well because of this status that we imposed on them. It’s important to know your history but it puts so much into perspective to learn others. I can’t explain to you how when I learned that we had “conquered” Brasil and such I was actually proud. But when I heard what the Spanish and the English did to their colonies I thought: wait, weren’t we the same? And my teacher said at the time: yes, we were. We were cruel and abused those people. -- source link