No, @nytdavidbrooks. When Europeans first settled this continent they had two big thoughts: genocide & enslavement.pic.twitter.com/RYCCxMHi9e
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I'm not defending the Spaniards, but I do want to point out that even popular history preferences a very Anglo brand of white supremacy.
It's Eurocentrism. Even the claim that the Vikings were 1st (Vinland) is Eurocentric: they were 2nd after Bering migrations.
And if we're talking continent, the first French settlement in was 1534 (in the Gaspé Peninsula, now Canada) +
As I already explained, if we're talking continent, first settlement is Tenochtitlán (now Mexico City) in 1519. @ShaulaEvans @NoTotally
Yes, I read the whole thread. I wasn't disagreeing with you.
yeah ppl also say that Anglos were first to bring African slaves, which is so not true!
And the Vikings were in North America 400 years before them...
@BroderickGreer Before Jamestown was Roanoke. & Vikings landed here before conquistadors raped their way through the Americas
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