https://www.expressen.se/kultur/sverige-har-varit-vithetens-hogborgBilan Osman
Trying to translate for the Getburglars.
I am sure there will be some errors, things lost in translation and "Morton Harkets" in the text.It is absurd to live in a time where racists compare their plays to the speeches of Martin Luther King.
And where demonstrations in Sweden are considered appropriation of American culture.
The impact of the protests in Sweden is a recognition of Sweden's heritage, not the United States.
It was not American culture that gave the world the find of science to measure skulls.
It was not in the US that the progenitor of racism was born - Carl von Linné.
Sweden together with Denmark shipped hundreds of thousands of slaves across the Atlantic.
It is not the United States that colonized Sápmi or waited until the end of the 1950s before the Roma gained voting rights here.
It is not the United States that founded the world's first state racial biology institute and since then made type zero to seriously settle it.
Instead, they have continued in the same way as before: been the stronghold of whiteness and exported the image of Sweden as the homogeneous country that had recently discovered multiculturalism.
1. In Sweden, black people have been lined up as living exhibits at Gröna Lund, at the same time as my parent generation was born.
It is in Sweden that every fourth person exposed to a hate crime is Afro-Swedish.
In Sweden, minorities are not allowed access to the labor and housing market. And if they get it, their pay is lower than that of the majority population.
It. Is. In Sweden. Racial profiling. Is In progress.
It is from Sweden Louis de Geer, who is regarded as the father of Swedish industry, went for the first Swedish slave trade expedition to Africa.
He who used black people as a commodity, bodies that were worth no more than sugar. It was to Stockholm De Geer later brought four black slaves, as a gift to the Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna.
2. It is not the United States that has affected Sweden, it is Sweden that has an impact on the outside world. Not least by being a leader in race biology.
3. The least one can do is not derail the conversation, point in another direction, and have as blind approach to the story as one has to the skin color of others.
4. Black heroes in history were brilliant at formulating their contemporary challenges. As today's champions are brilliant at formulating their time.
5. There was a fairly large group of people who, during the civil rights era, felt that blacks demanded too much.
Those who want to reduce Black Lives Matters are the same timeless group.
Those who believe that others deserve less than themselves.
And think it gets too much when people want to avoid being murdered.
