> The Replacement Theory. Sad state of affairs when one race truly believes misguidedly that another one's (particularly African Americans) motive is to replace them. Truly absurd.

I agree with you 100% about this idea of The Replacement Theory. And anyone who has that view (The Replacement Theory) is at best a deluded moron, at worst a very intelligent and nasty racist. 

It's simply Nazi propaganda made up by vile people with vile views about who and what we are as one species, humankind. They don't see it that way and they're wrong.  

I grew up in the UK, in a very mixed multicultural area, but it was a rough area. But I feel privileged to have grown up in such a place because I see right to the heart of this separationist attitude that seems worse in the states than it is in the UK, although there is still systemic racism here as well in the police force and military particularly. I do have relatives in North Carolina and have visited them many times, and that's why I think that segregation is still a worse issue in the states than in the UK, but it might have just been because of where my relatives live.

Now I'll say it straight up, I'm a white man... so some might say, what business of mine is it to talk about such things. I just don't understand that attitude at all, I wasn't taught to see anything other than a person in front of me when I meet them, regardless of the color of their skin. And if I see someone being singled out, attacked, or ostracised because of the color of their skin, you better believe I'm getting involved.  

> It would be laughable if it weren't so tragic. The former race doesn't want to blame themselves for participating in the Atlantic Slave Trade in the first place. But now trying to rewrite history to place their own spin on their mistake.

It is indeed laughable as you so rightly point out. 

I'm from Liverpool, which was the main port of the British Empire during the advent of the slave trade. Yet I feel both shame (in that fact), and great pride in Liverpool for the city as it is now because it is one of the most tolerant, mixed and friendly cities in the UK... and also we don't take any sht from big government. There is a lot of anti-war and anti-racism protest happening in Liverpool. But I own the part that the rich white slave traders took in that darkest times of Liverpool's history with poems I've written such as this one:

<iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1180703638&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/rowan-joyce" title="Mainly Poetry" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Mainly Poetry</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/rowan-joyce/the-ancient-chapel-of-toxteth" title="The Ancient Chapel of Toxteth" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">The Ancient Chapel of Toxteth</a></div>

If you listen to that reading of the poem I wrote inspired by a visit to a local chapel that is only opened to groups by request, in the final lines their is reference to 'the Kings of Slavery'. The written version can be found in this post:

[The Ancient Chapel of Toxteth - Poetry Reading & Local History
](https://peakd.com/hive-152889/@raj808/the-ancient-chapel-of-toxteth-poetry-reading-and-local-history)

Liverpool has always been a city of activists, and in the 1980s my mother was treasurer of the Liverpool branch of the ANC raising money to send to South Africa and help them fight apartheid, and I feel a shiver down my spine (of good emotions) now remembering being at a rally at the age of seven on a demonstration with my mum and they let me shout down the megaphone outside a Shell garage 'Boycott Shell Oil, Supporters of Apartheid.'

> The leaflet says Shell has shipped large quantities of crude oil to South Africa, in violation of the international oil embargo against the apartheid regime. Shell supplies oil products to the South African military and police, including fuel, the raw materials for napalm and nerve gas, and defoliation substances.<br>
[Source](https://africanactivist.msu.edu/document_metadata.php?objectid=210-808-2502#:~:text=The%20leaflet%20says%20Shell%20has,nerve%20gas%2C%20and%20defoliation%20substances.)

I was always going to answer this ecotrain question in the way I did because I'm outlining things it has taken me half a lifetime to come to realize. And to be honest, as I said in my post I see many activists as heroes! 

Neslon Mandela was an activist, and he is a Hero in my eyes.

I think we're very similar in our views on these types of subjects.
Much love and thanks for your meaningful comment @justclickindiva 🙂

!LUV