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  1. Sep 2021
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    The Doctrine of Discovery, 1493 | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
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    1. MicheleStar 12 Sep 2021
      Moreover we command you in virtue of holy obedience that, employing all due diligence in the premises, as you also promise—nor do we doubt your compliance therein in accordance with your loyalty and royal greatness of spirit—you should appoint to the aforesaid mainlands and islands worthy, God-fearing, learned, skilled, and expeienced men, in order to instruct the aforesaid inhabitants and residents in the Catholic faith and train them in good morals.

      In the document written by Pope Alexander IV it basically gave power to the crusaders to pillage and destroy indigenous lands, it gave them power to restrain indigenous people and force them to convert.

    2. MicheleStar 12 Sep 2021
      as was the fashion of your ancestors, kings of renowned memory,

      "The Europeans who actually participated in the the Colonization of The Americas were heirs and to rich and ancient cultures and social relations."

    3. MicheleStar 12 Sep 2021
      The Bull Inter Caetera made headlines again throughout the 1990s and in 2000, when many Catholics petitioned Pope John Paul II to formally revoke it and recognize the human rights of indigenous "non-Christian peoples."

      In the 20th era, Catholics actually stood up and fought against The Bull Inter Caetera. They put an end to the unjustified claim that Catholic religion had on non-catholic people, especially indigenous people.

    4. MicheleStar 12 Sep 2021
      American Indians had only a right of occupancy, which could be abolished.

      As stated before, this shows that American Indians had the right to either occupy the Catholic land and convert or their rights to occupy land would be stripped away. This was unjustified because it went against the American Indians rights, it went against the ONLY right they had.

    5. MicheleStar 12 Sep 2021
      declared that "the Catholic faith and the Christian religion be exalted and be everywhere increased and spread,

      Catholic religion was the ruler of all lands. It was praised and demanded to be spread throughout all of Europe and America in the west. This was unfair because people who follow other religions and wanted to live on catholic land had to either convert or find another place to live.

    6. MicheleStar 12 Sep 2021
      assigned Spain the exclusive right to acquire territorial possessions and to trade in all lands west of that line. All others were forbidden to approach the lands west of the line without special license from the rulers of Spain. This effectively gave Spain a monopoly on the lands in the New World.

      This is similar to capitalism, whoever gets their hands on land or property first gets to use it to their liking, they can exploit anyone they like, they can raise or lower prices for certain things.

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    How the Enlightenment Created Modern Race Thinking and Why We Should Confront It
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    1. MicheleStar 01 Sep 2021
      We still live in a world shaped by Enlightenment ideas of race and white supremacy.

      and we will always stay this way because society is toxic and unwilling to face the problems it caused.

    2. MicheleStar 01 Sep 2021
      whose authors—like Toussaint L’Ouverture—appealed to those values as they fought slavery and colonialism to establish self-governance.

      These people fought for themselves and other of color to establish themselves freedom and others as well, they just want freedom and a chance at prosperity.

    3. MicheleStar 01 Sep 2021
      As European powers spread across the globe, they used racial notions of personhood—pioneered by Enlightenment thinkers—to justify brutality and domination as the march of “civilization.”

      This is not the right mantra to have when dominating countries, the world will always be socially segregated due to this mantra.

    4. MicheleStar 01 Sep 2021
      When he evaluated a statement made by an African, Kant dismissed the statement with the comment: “this fellow was quite black from head to foot, a clear proof that what he said was stupid.” It cannot, therefore, be argued that skin color for Kant was merely a physical characteristic. It is, rather, evidence of an unchanging and unchangeable moral quality

      In society today, colored people get less chances at being hired for work and at succeeding in life because they aren't given the chance too. Before they can even go in for a job interview they are already analyzed just by the color of their skin, they aren't given the chance to live because of the racial stereotypes that take place in society today.

    5. MicheleStar 01 Sep 2021
      “[Whites] contain all the impulses of nature in affects and passions, all talents, all dispositions to culture and civilization and can as readily obey as govern. They are the only ones who always advance to perfection.”

      The historians and scientists who all think this stuff is true are the reason why the world is the way it is. All these racial stereotypes and racial superiority and inferiority is harming society of it's good.

    6. MicheleStar 01 Sep 2021
      Colonial domination and expropriation marched hand in hand with the spread of “liberty,” and liberalism arose alongside our modern notions of race and racism.

      The Enlightenment gave way for this socio-political order of hierarchy. The Enlightenment was a paradox, it claimed false ideas, it was said to emphasize individualism although all it did was create racial taxonomy and racial domination.

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