WHITE HIS - STORY MONTH
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Probably the greatest act that crystallized the justification of European slave trading was the Catholic priest Bartholomo de las Casas' writing in his encyclical to the papacy that these people (the Africans) were without souls and suitable for the torturous work in the Americas. The result was carte blanche exploritation justified and sanctioned by the Western Church, marking the very beginning of racial prejudice. It was at this point in history that Western culture determined all evil as black and Satanic and all good was white and of God. Based upon the assumption of Padre de las Casas the Western Church for more than 300 years, without any compunction or intervention, practically authorized the massive trafficking in human cargo.