This week in class we learned about the Colonialization and Slavery in the Americas. In today’s society, we still deal with the ramifications that the colonization and a lot of underlying ideas of race as it intersects with social mobility and wealth. Throughout the Spanish’s varying systems of labor: encomienda, repartimiento, or the mission system, which main objective was to actively spread Christianity and stop purposeless violence, slavery and oppression have been rampant. Ideas of colorism have been indoctrinated and today we now see people of African or Aboriginal descent routinely shut out of politics, economy, and society collectively. Besides slavery, which was prohibited generations ago, we now deal with after math of colonization
