#onedroprule

if we look at Spain’s waves of expulsiones (aka deportations) and their use of eminent domain to take over the lands and properties of the deported, it’s clear they had expanded the definition of LIMPIA DE SANGRE and “one-drop rule” not for pedestrian racist reasons but because it was a quick way to make money. so even though LA LIMPIA didn't have in Spain the same white supremacist connotations that #blanqueamiento had in #Argentina and #OneDropRule in the United States 🧵…

what unifies #LimpiaDeSangre #Blanqueamiento #OneDropRule is how oligarchies in Spain, South America and USA used cockamamy #genetics to justify theft of property and money by deportations and, subsequently, the economic indentureship of the deported. this is where #ManifestDestiny kicks in, as the other side of the blanqueamiento coin. the whitening of the Américas hinged on the forced redistribution of europeans on our lands. guess who had the most colonial lands in Europe: Spain 🧵…