Noketown said:
How do you think slavery was so successful and prominent here in the U.S and even South America(Most slaves where in South America not U.S)...If it wasn't for the help of Africans the white man wouldn't have been able to get half as many slaves as he did...And why did Africans help inslave other Africans?..It was for trade...Africans were trading us for guns and ammuntion so they could kill rival tribes...Blacks have been shooting and killing each other for 400 years
We are doing this shit to ourselves
Now this is one dumb assed assumption that just won't die. Peep this...
Euros killed and captured Euros, Asians killed and captured Asians, Africans killed and captured Africans
You know why Euros didn't sell their prisoners, because nobody offered to buy them, same with Asians. Had there been a buyer, they would have been sold too. There was no such thing as a Geneva convention back then, the modern rules of engagement did not apply.
Shit is called war
You see, there is no such thing as BLACK UNITY when everybody is black. There is no such thing as racism if everybody is the same color. So Africans at war with other Africans sold their captive ENEMIES to slave traders. That does not make them Uncle Toms, it makes them ruthless, but not sellouts. WE aren't doing shit to ourselves because the people you are blaming for slavery did not see every person with black skin as their brother.
Does this make sense to you?
You are applying your understanding of the world as it is now to a group of people that lived in a world where the past 400 years had not happened yet.
Does this shit make sense to you?
The slave trade was not the issue, hell when the slave trade first kicked off, it wasn't as much race based as supply based. The atrocity was not slavery itself, there had always been slaves. The atrocity was the genocide called the middle passage. The atrocity was the torture and rape of 100's of thousands of people of color. The atrocity was when Euros decided to CODIFY IN LAW that ANY person born with melanin in his skin was BORN A SLAVE. The atrocity was when they decreed that people of color were not human AND TREATED THEM AS SUCH.
I realize that the "new negro" spends much of his time trying to find a way to let the white man OFF THE HOOK and put the black man ON, but this twisting of history is bullshit. What the Euros did was evil, possibly the MOST evil thing ever done in history, what the Africans did was ruthless (evil too, but WAR is inherently evil). You want to give white folks a pass, just give it to them, but stop twisting shit.