Unbelievable how people don’t know history. Do people have any idea how many Blacks sold other Blacks? Any idea how many Africans willingly sold their darker skinned brethren?
Call me cynical, but I think this is nothing more than an attempt by the Democrats at Slate to distract from a feckless Obama through the juxtaposition of the always handy evil George W. Bush.
Many Africans sold themselves and their children into slavery to avoid starvation. There are parents in Africa today who sell their children into slavery. Oprah had a show about it. I think it was Lisa Ling who did the documentary. I remember her saying we shouldn't judge the parents, or those that held the children as slaves, because it was part of their “culture”. I remember thinking how strange it was that she, and Oprah with her silence, would hold blacks, who currently engage in slavery, less accountable than the white descendants of those who owned slaves hundreds of years ago. I'm sure the white slave owners in Dixie thought slavery was a part of their culture too.
Africans hated whites for ending slave trading with them. Slave trading was how they got their guns and rum.
I’ve always been astounded by the misplaced anger of American Blacks.
Both sides of my family are German.
If a neighboring tribe of Germans had kidnapped me, sold me to Black slavers, and shipped me to Nigeria, I would not be enraged at Nigerians.
I would be enraged at GERMANS - the Germans who did it, AND the Germans who did nothing to stop it!