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briandmyers  ·  3543 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fifth Bi-Weekly Give Me A Quote From Something You've Been Reading Lately

    The prevalence of racism today leads people to think it has always existed, arising from an innate aversion of people from one ethnic background for those from another. Slavery is then seen as a by-product of racism, rather than the other way around.

- Chris Harman, A People's History of the World

(yes I'm still on the same book - there are PDF's out there available btw)