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Colonization

peared to center around copulation between the (white) hu-
man female and an ape. This idea was embedded into social
and cultural thought and practice long before Charles Darwin’s
theory of evolution was captured in On the Origin of Species.
Darwin’s theory of evolution though disparaged by those who
believed in the truth of Creation, suggested that mankind was
the highest product of changes that began with a ‘big bang’
which triggered the formation of life and gradually over hun-
dreds of millions of years brought forth man from a line of apes.

Hence the black man was considered evolutionarily back-
ward and the white man the absolute pinnacle of the evo-
lutionary process. It has been suggested that Darwin him-
self did not put forth evolution as a racist agenda, however,
on the basis of his postulations, those who perceived the
opportunity presented by his writings found the scientif-
ic credence and necessary weight they needed in order
to justify their actions, including slavery in the Americas.

The European colonial oppression of non-whites was con-
ducted with great zeal and of all the people they colonized,
the black man was deemed the lowest, simply because of his
color. One wonders why they would do this to Afrikans, when
northern Europeans themselves had suffered ridicule and ra-
cial discrimination from the Greeks and in addition, slavery,
from the Roman Empire. What a horrible thing to pay for-
ward. Colonialism: the domination, control and influence of a
nation over another using systems, policies and force to exert
and enforce measures of control determined by the dominat-
ing nation. In other words: they came, they liked what they
saw and they decided to take it for themselves no matter what.
The Europeans really put their backs into attaining the objec-

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