Posted on 10/14/2012 6:57:45 AM PDT by Milagros
Eat, or be eaten. But remember, some days the bear gets you.
And likewise, America has approximately zero friends out there. Starting with the fraud in the Oval Office.
In Arabic, the word for "black African" and "slave" are the same. In English, the word "slave" is derived from "Slav", reflective of the massive slaving operations of the Turkish empire.
It is incorrect, I think, to say that Musselmen introduced slavery to sub-Saharan Africa, but they certainly accelerated it and massified it; and once the European empires rolled away, they reintroduced it.
Credit actor Omar Sharif (who is Egyptian) and his friends Peter Ustinov and William Holden for making the commercial-loser movie Ashanti in the late 1970's with their own money, to bring the reintroduction of the trans-Saharan slave trade to the attention of the Western public.
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