• @[email protected]
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    112 hours ago

    I may be mistaken but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a French guy painted in black. However I don’t think it’s in anyway related to historical reasons, it’s mostly because it looks dumb and out of place.

    Transferring your argument to the Sevilla parade where black faces were the norm last week, I believe they played a relatively minor role in the slave trade. And I have not seen a single black guy in the street the duration I was there, apart from one frenchman.

    • Flying Squid
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      612 hours ago

      I believe they played a relatively minor role in the slave trade.

      Are you fucking kidding me?

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Cuba

      Only abolished by Spanish royal decree in 1887. One of the last European colonies in the Americas to abolish slavery. Only Brazil came afterward two years later.