@highfidelity
Interesting you pick out one word in my post ' Dehumanising'.
Yes, it is true the Jewish and Roma were rounded up at various times over the past centuries in different places, persecuted and killed.
But, they lived in these societies, before being scapegoated for economic problems or theft. I do know the Jewish were forced to live in ghettos in I.e Italy, as a result.
Now how do think they got the black people to the US, Caribbean and South America. There were mass kidnappings, people bought and sold like animals. Examined like animals, the weaker ones killed along the long journey to the slave ports. Now, think about the manacles and slave ships over 400 years, death on the sea, to the survivors got to the destination to be sold all over again. Troublemakers were lashed, hobbled or bits cut off or killed to show the rest an example.
Then they were forced to work until their death, their children taken from them also forced work once they could. They were not allowed to couple up, rape was common both by master and fellow slave. Until the Civil war in the US, there was no freedom of person or movement, and even then many had keep working unpaid as there was nowhere to go. Any black person who challenged the status quo, beatings, burnt down churches and homes, rape, hangings and lynchings all to keep a race in line.
During days of empire, whether British, French, Spanish or Portuguese. Even the Belgians who were the worst. Lands were ceased, new nations were drawn up, splitting tribes and families.
People were massacred, and forced to acknowledge the invaders as rulers, until the fight for independence started in India (see the mess there between India ^ Pakistan ). Forced to speak a foreign language, give up their religion and rulers as well as their resources.
Most sent food etc during the world wars, whilst young men joined up to fight.
Come through to today, people of Black heritage still have to face direct and indirect racism. We are still told 'empire' was for our benefit. We are told our experience of racism are not as bad as we think, by people who are not us. When we ask for reparations or debts to be cancelled there are umms and aahs and buts. But slave owners got compensation, and their heirs. Jewish people were able to see the Nazi leadership etc tried for crimes against humanity. And get their ancestors property back.
People of Black heritage can't. They can expect to have low educational outcomes and job prospects, they can expect the law and police to be tough on them. Even in Health, whether as a member of staff or a patient your experience maybe filled with indignities as a result of your colour. Employers see our names/or us and worry whether we'll fit in with the team. People are obsessed about our hair or hair styles. Although, our ancestors are/ were settled British citizens we suffer from Windrush deportations, despite living in Britain for all/most our lives.
Even, the police are killing Black people in and out of custody like the Americans. Many of our young men are well-represented in the Mental Health crises and under supported.
We are underrepresented in Politics, and those that do get through are maligned constantly for any slip, and their personal problems in the media especially the DM.
Please don't mention that we have not suffered enough. Don't mention that Diane Abbott doesn't understand our issues, or in response to a poor article, tried to raise how we people of colour (in fact, the darker, you are the worse) still suffer more racism, casual, institutional and direct (especially since Brexit) than we should, as opposed to those who are not.
Hope this helps clarify matters.