The You're welcome Neil. You're welcome to.

Take him back.

You're welcome, Neil. Thank you all want to know.

welcome now. This is not the media.

This is hell.

All right then.

This is not the media.

Hell and you can tell that this is not the media because what other podcast live stream or radio shows starting off the week with the

discussion on the normalized brutality that has been the foundation of

Empire so I'm certain you know that today we're talking about pearls, right?

That's what you guessed, right?

Yeah, pearls, not silver and gold.

Pearls were the original target for accumulation by the Spanish Empire in the America.

Massive oyster beds along the northern coast of South America, especially near Venezuela,

produced massive quantities of pearls, leading to a glut in Europe.

So many pearls were coming to Europe

from all over the world.

Europeans started becoming obsessed with their irregularities,

categorizing them in an indexing that would

portend a slew of cruel color-based determinations.

In art, Pearls would depict images of the cruelties of their exploitation was causing in the

new world, including the transatlantic slave trade.

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