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except for the usa of course, which had apartheid up til about the 1960s....
this flies in the face of all the so-called scientists who labeled ethiopians as 'caucasians'...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The growth of Fascist Racism coincided with the Italian Fascist invasion of Ethiopia - and was in large measure a result of it. Louise Diel, a German Nazi admirer of Mussolini, recalls that early in the invasion, Italian soldiers "went lightheartedly to war and sang of the '<span style="font-weight: bold">Little Black Face'</span>, the Facceta nera" - the "<span style="font-weight: bold">little black girl</span>" whom they would take back with them to Rome.
Within a fortnight of the Fascist occupation of Addis Ababa on 5 May 1936 the Fascist position on race had been radically transformed. This is evident from the controlled Italian press. On 21 May the Gazzeta del Popolo declared that the <span style="font-weight: bold">Fascist empire "must not be an empire of half-castes</span>', while the Messagero declared that Italian colonists and Abyssinian natives should be kept apart - and only married Italian men be sent to Africa, where their wives would help in the good work of colonization, cooking pasta for their men-folk or whatever.
Curiously, that very same day the London Times published a letter from the British biologist - and Communist! - J.B.S. Haldane to say that Mussolini's plan "<span style="font-weight: bold">to settle a quarter of a million settlers" in Ethiopia meant that we must… look forward to a considerable influx of African blood into Italy''</span>.
What, we wonder, gave him this idea?
The Rome correspondent of the British newspaper, the News Chronicle meanwhile reported at about the same time that "the picture postcards of [beautiful] Abyssinian women which have been prominently displayed in Roman shop windows have mysteriously disappeared".
A few weeks later, early in July, an important Italian Colonial Congress was held in Trieste, at which the racist theoretician and Minister Colonies, Alessandro Lesona, declared that Italy's colonial policy was a rigid one, designed to avoid promiscuity between the races.
Such was the background to Mussolini's Racial Laws, all of which - a shame to the Italian monarchy - were signed by the Italian King-Emperor Vittorio Emanuele III.
<span style="font-weight: bold">These decrees are historically interesting in showing that Fascist Italy was attempting to establish a kind of apartheid regime in Ethiopia a decade or so before one was officially inaugurated in South Africa.</span>
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The first of these decrees, signed by the King on 9 April 1937, prohibited conjugal relations between Italians and "natives". It was followed by a second decree, of 20 December 1937, which extended the above prohibition to "assimilated persons", i.e. to "natives", who had acquired a "European" way of life.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Another decree, of 5 September 1938 (which brought Fascist Italy more in line with Nazi Germany) excluded Jews from government or semi-government employment. This was followed by a decree of 17 November 1938 (which further increased the linkage with Nazi Germany) by prohibiting marriage between Italian Aryans (whoever they were) persons of Jewish race.</span>
A further decree, of 3 December 1938, provided for the expropriation of "natives" holding land in the vicinity of Italian places of residence, while another decree, of 29 June 1939, prohibited persons of whatever race from engaging in behaviour held to be "detrimental to the prestige" of the Italian race.
One last decree, signed by the King on 13 May 1940, a little over a year before Mussolini's declaration of war on Britain and France brought it all to an end, established that half-castes should have the status of their "native" parent, and be denied the status, or name, of their Italian one.
Such, dear Reader, were the major decrees signed by the King, and mentioned by Gabriella Ghermandi. They were supplemented by a series of lesser edicts, signed by the governors of the various segments of the short-lived Fascist empire.
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http://www.capitalethiopia.com/index.ph ...
this flies in the face of all the so-called scientists who labeled ethiopians as 'caucasians'...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The growth of Fascist Racism coincided with the Italian Fascist invasion of Ethiopia - and was in large measure a result of it. Louise Diel, a German Nazi admirer of Mussolini, recalls that early in the invasion, Italian soldiers "went lightheartedly to war and sang of the '<span style="font-weight: bold">Little Black Face'</span>, the Facceta nera" - the "<span style="font-weight: bold">little black girl</span>" whom they would take back with them to Rome.
Within a fortnight of the Fascist occupation of Addis Ababa on 5 May 1936 the Fascist position on race had been radically transformed. This is evident from the controlled Italian press. On 21 May the Gazzeta del Popolo declared that the <span style="font-weight: bold">Fascist empire "must not be an empire of half-castes</span>', while the Messagero declared that Italian colonists and Abyssinian natives should be kept apart - and only married Italian men be sent to Africa, where their wives would help in the good work of colonization, cooking pasta for their men-folk or whatever.
Curiously, that very same day the London Times published a letter from the British biologist - and Communist! - J.B.S. Haldane to say that Mussolini's plan "<span style="font-weight: bold">to settle a quarter of a million settlers" in Ethiopia meant that we must… look forward to a considerable influx of African blood into Italy''</span>.
What, we wonder, gave him this idea?
The Rome correspondent of the British newspaper, the News Chronicle meanwhile reported at about the same time that "the picture postcards of [beautiful] Abyssinian women which have been prominently displayed in Roman shop windows have mysteriously disappeared".
A few weeks later, early in July, an important Italian Colonial Congress was held in Trieste, at which the racist theoretician and Minister Colonies, Alessandro Lesona, declared that Italy's colonial policy was a rigid one, designed to avoid promiscuity between the races.
Such was the background to Mussolini's Racial Laws, all of which - a shame to the Italian monarchy - were signed by the Italian King-Emperor Vittorio Emanuele III.
<span style="font-weight: bold">These decrees are historically interesting in showing that Fascist Italy was attempting to establish a kind of apartheid regime in Ethiopia a decade or so before one was officially inaugurated in South Africa.</span>
***
The first of these decrees, signed by the King on 9 April 1937, prohibited conjugal relations between Italians and "natives". It was followed by a second decree, of 20 December 1937, which extended the above prohibition to "assimilated persons", i.e. to "natives", who had acquired a "European" way of life.
<span style="font-weight: bold">Another decree, of 5 September 1938 (which brought Fascist Italy more in line with Nazi Germany) excluded Jews from government or semi-government employment. This was followed by a decree of 17 November 1938 (which further increased the linkage with Nazi Germany) by prohibiting marriage between Italian Aryans (whoever they were) persons of Jewish race.</span>
A further decree, of 3 December 1938, provided for the expropriation of "natives" holding land in the vicinity of Italian places of residence, while another decree, of 29 June 1939, prohibited persons of whatever race from engaging in behaviour held to be "detrimental to the prestige" of the Italian race.
One last decree, signed by the King on 13 May 1940, a little over a year before Mussolini's declaration of war on Britain and France brought it all to an end, established that half-castes should have the status of their "native" parent, and be denied the status, or name, of their Italian one.
Such, dear Reader, were the major decrees signed by the King, and mentioned by Gabriella Ghermandi. They were supplemented by a series of lesser edicts, signed by the governors of the various segments of the short-lived Fascist empire.
</div></div>
http://www.capitalethiopia.com/index.ph ...
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