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Eh, not sure any more than most other mostly white nations. England is responsible for spreading like a fungus around the globe, and brought her own brand of white supremacy with it (which the US was an offspring of).

Spain, England and France brought European imperialism and white supremacy to the Americas:

Akala on The UK Being Responsible for Slavery in America

The economic, technological and military dominance of Western Europe is foundationally based upon this crime:

“Columbus didn’t set off with this big old plan to create in the 21st century the industrialized world that we see before us today, of course he didn’t,” Akala says.

“He wasn’t that clever a man. He set off, he murdered a whole bunch of people, committed genocide, and out of a whole series of historical circumstances, and accidents, and some planning, this world system of European-based capitalism evolved – along with white supremacy.”

Fundamental in all of this was the kidnapping and enslavement of Africans, Akala says: “There was an interesting program on the BBC of all places a few weeks ago, called ‘Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners,’ by David Olusoga, which outlined something historians used to consider controversial. Eric Williams wrote a book in the 1940s called ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ and he put forward the thesis that Transatlantic slavery was really the foundational moment in the formation of European capitalism.”

The BBC’s program effectively confirmed Williams’ thesis, drawing on extensive research by banker-turned-historian Nick Draper.

But, as Akala puts it, “It’s not rocket science. Imagine if Apple Macintosh didn’t pay a single one of its employees. It’s already the richest company in the entire world.

“Imagine it only paid the most senior management and it didn’t pay anyone else – no-one who worked in the stores, none of the people who made the products – no-one, only Steve Jobs and his cohorts. It would be an infinitely richer company than it is today. Now imagine a whole nation of companies that applied that principle. So it’s not difficult to see how Europe became so wealthy.”

Military resistance by enslaved people in the Caribbean eventually ended the Atlantic slave trade:

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But while the Caribbean slave revolts eventually forced the Europeans to abandon slavery, the more successful suppression of resistance on the US mainland allowed it to persist:

Akala: If I Rapped About Killing Crackers I'd be Racist, Even Though I'm Mixed

(relevant bit at 7:00, should be pre-cued)

Then, of course, the Slaver’s Revolt. That was a chance to really fix the problem, but it was thrown away in 1877:

Compromise of 1877

From Paxton’s Five Stages of Fascism.

The power of the slavers rebuilds, transforms into a more modern proto-fascism via the second-wave KKK, and then gets locked into place in 1919:

The Birth of a Nation | Based on a True Story

The 1919 Red Scare - the craziest year in American history

That gets us to the suppression of US socialism and the establishment of the nationwide security state. The US almost went full fascist in the 1930’s, but Pearl Harbour and Roosevelt’s scheming put a stop to that.

After the war, Cold War competition forced a few decades of Bismarckian social concessions. The end of the Cold War dropped that limitation, and it’s been brewing towards the current catastrophe ever since.