Just watched the movie 12 years a slave and I found it very eye-opening when I saw the protagonist run into a group of aboriginals. I always thought of the racial issues among black and aboriginals as separate issues and never fully grasped the fact that these two racial issues were/are occurring simultaneously.
how do you quantify that? Both were hell since both were considered non-citizens, especially 'native americans'. But in general being black was worse since you were a slave, at least 'native Americans' avoided that, but on the other hand they witnesses the genocide of their people and the mass appropriation of all land their held and their happy egalitarian way of life demolished
I really don't see how one could be considered worse than the other. Both groups were treated as if they were less than human and repeatedly had their basic human rights violated. Is it worse to be kept as the property of another human being and forced to do back breaking labor without compensation for generations, or to be unwanted by another group of people to the point that they kill the vast majority of your people off and then force the rest to move to isolated reservations where you live in poverty while your way of life is destroyed? Both groups suffered horribly and it would be silly to try to measure their suffering to see who had it better or worse.