Crikey this is one almighty complex issue. Slavery was not confined only to blacks, I guess everyone gets that?

It was in North America where I believe the racial hatred towards blacks was first spawned and that is where I believe it will finish.

We all pretty much know the American Civil War ended slavery in the US, but it seems to me the legacy of slavery has inspired racial hatred which still resonates loud and clear within the confines of contemporary politics and civil society in North America.

People still talk of the lynching's and segregation in the Deep South of America and please let us all remember this was taking place until the 1960's?

This type of collective and individual oppression against what was regarded by the whites as an "inferior" or subordinate "racial group" (i.e. the blacks) continues today as epitomised by the unjustifiable homicide of George Floyd.

Until we all call out institutional racism and we end it with protests violent or otherwise, this problem will continue. This is why the Black Lives Matter movement is burning hot today and I have a feeling in my gut it will not burn out until the likes of Trump, Trudeau and Johnson issue decrees to end it.

To be continued...