IBARW -- kind of a local topic I guess

Sometimes I see posts in fandom racism discussions from non-US fans that seem to think that the legacy of slavery was somehow just an US issue, and didn't have much relevance to racism elsewhere and the forms it takes.

Maybe there are places like that somewhere, I don't know, but the history of slavery is not an "US-centric" issue. ( the local example to accompany the global thought, cut for length )