Even the papacy endorsed the African-barbarism racial worldview

Evidence

The Diaspora loop is the vector-completion. What had been carried from Africa as enslaved labor returned to Africa as Christianity. What had been beaten into the enslaved African body in the Caribbean and the American South was transmitted back to the African continent as part of the ordinary operational substance of the African-American Christian tradition. The cycle closed. — , The Rod and the Child, 4397 (#complicates, via linked claim)

After him, for many ages, the city of Rome ceased to produce great men. But in its downfall it succeeded in fettering the souls of its conquerors: the reverence which they felt for the Chair of Peter was an outcome of the awe which they felt for the throne of the Caesars. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1512 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonizers justified African slavery’s persistence as evidence of civilizational backwardness; Barbarian conquerors transferred their awe of the Caesars to the papacy — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1512; The Black radical tradition springs from a conserved African worldview under enslavement (+3 more)

Related

• Barbarian conquerors transferred their awe of the Caesars to the papacy (similarity 0.85)
• Colonizers justified African slavery’s persistence as evidence of civilizational backwardness (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Enslaved Africans’ Christianity carried back to Africa the very discipline used on them #complicates (0.50) — , The Rod and the Child, 4397
• Barbarian conquerors transferred their awe of the Caesars to the papacy #responds-to (0.40) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1512
• The Black radical tradition springs from a conserved African worldview under enslavement #complicates (0.40)
• Medieval racial classification from Noah’s sons seeded later European denials of African achievement #expands (0.40)
• Augustine provided the theoretical justification for medieval papal supremacy #responds-to (0.30) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 1432