Hmm, I hate to inform you, but Blacks here are more racist, than Whites are on the whole.
Every single Black here is racist towards Whites, yourself included, despite being the (5% slightly racist) Black.
No black person is coming coming into white nations in Europe and slaughtering white people and installing systems of apartheid like they did in South Africa
I'm not so sure I'd indefinitely call it "Racism"
Fact is South-Germanics who terrorized South African Blacks, also terrorized Whites like Irish, Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, etc. etc.
If you think Poland was in the Partitions in a heck of a lot of better position than South African Blacks were, you're greatly mistaken.
Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions - Wikipedia
In 1819 the gradual elimination of Polish language in schools began, with German being introduced in its place.
[6] This procedure was briefly stopped in 1822 but restarted in 1824.
In 1825 August Jacob, a politician hostile to Poles, gained power over newly created Provincial Educational Collegium in
Posen (Poznań).
[6] Across the Polish territories Polish teachers were being removed from work, German educational programs were being introduced, and primary schooling was being replaced by German one that aimed at creation of loyal Prussian citizens.
[6] Already in 1816 the Polish gymnasium in
Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) was turned into a German school and Polish language removed from classes.
In 1825 the Teacher's Seminary in
Bromberg was Germanized as well.
[6] While in 1824 a Provincial Parliament was invoked in Greater Poland, the representation was based on wealth census, meaning that the end result gave most of the power to German minority in the area.
[6] Even when Poles managed to issue calls asking for enforcing of the guarantees formulated in treaties of Congress of Vienna and proclamations of Prussian King in 1815 they were rejected by Prussia.
[6]Thus neither the attempt to create Polish University in Posen or Polish Society of Friends of Agriculture, Industry and Education were accepted by authorities.
[6]Nevertheless, Poles continued to ask for Polish representation in administration of the area, representing the separate character of the Duchy, keeping the Polish character of schools.
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From 1825 the increase of anti-Polish policies became more visible and intense.
[6] Prussian political circles demanded end to tolerance of Polishness. Among the Poles two groups emerged, one still hoping for respect of separate status of the Duchy and insisting on working with Prussian authorities hoping that in time they would grant some freedoms. The other faction still hoped for independence of Poland. As consequence many Polish activists were imprisoned.
[6] A joint operation of Russian and Prussian secret police managed to discover Polish organizations working in
Breslau (Wrocław) and
Berlin, whose members were arrested and detained in Prussian jails.
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1830–1848[edit]
Intensification of anti-Polish policies started from 1830 onwards.
[6] As the
November Uprising in Russian-held
Congress Poland began, Prussians closely worked with Russia in regards to stopping any Polish independence drive. A state of emergency was introduced in the Duchy, police surveillance started on a large scale and 80,000 soldiers were moved into the area.
[6] The Prussian Foreign Minister openly declared that Prussia would oppose independence of Poland as it would mean territories taken in the Partitions of Poland could be claimed by it.
[6] Russians soldiers fighting Poles received food supplies, equipment, and intelligence from Prussia. While Prussian generals even wanted to march into
Congress Poland, the threat of French intervention stopped those plans.
[6] The administrator of the region became Eduard Heinrich Flotwell, a self-declared enemy of Poles, who openly called for Germanization and superiority of German culture over Polish people. Supported by Karl Grolman, a Prussian general, a program was presented that envisioned removing Poles from all offices, courts, judiciary system, and local administration, controlling the clergy, and making peasants loyal through enforced military service. Schools were to be Germanized as well.
[6] Those plans were supported by such prominent public figures such as
Carl von Clausewitz,
August Neidhardt von Gneisenau,
Theodor von Schon,
Wilhelm von Humboldt.
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By 1830 the right to use Polish in courts and institutions was no longer respected.
[3] While the Poles constituted the majority of population in the area, they held only 4 out of 21 official posts of higher level.
[3] From 1832 they could no longer hold higher posts at the local administrative level (Landrat).
[3] At the same time the Prussian government and Prussian King pursued Germanization of administration and judicial system, while local officials enforced Germanization of educational system and tried to eradicate the economic position of Polish nobility.
[3] In Bromberg the mayors were all Germans. In Posen, out of 700 officials, only 30 were Poles.
Flotwell also initiated programs of German colonization and tried to reduce Polish landownership in favor of Germans.
[6] In the time period of 1832–1842 the number of Polish holdings was reduced from 1020 to 950 and the German ones increased from 280 to 400.
[6] Jewish minority in the Province was exploited by Prussians to gain support for its policies, by granting Jews rights and abolishing old limitations the Prussians hoped they could integrate Jewish population into German society, and gain a counterweight to Polish presence. As a result, many Jewish saw in Prussia a free, liberal state and were opposed to Polish independence movement.
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