Posted on 09/09/2020 10:06:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
What if the roles had been reversed? What if it was White Americans who were sold into slavery in Africa? What if it was Whites who, to this day, many decades after their emancipation, had lower family incomes, diminished educational opportunities, and higher crime rates than the Black majority? How would we, as White Africans, view this?
Jewish historian Eli Faber, in his book 'Jews, Slaves, and the Slave Trade: Setting the Record Straight', which demolishes the lies of the Nation of Islam about the allegedly dominant role of Jews in the slave trade, paints a powerful picture of the monstrous nature of this horrid practice.
He writes: “Wrenched from their homes and their families, marched in chains to the coasts and transported across the seas during an era that lasted well over three centuries, millions were condemned to spend the remainder of their lives in servitude and to witness the enslavement of their children. Many more did not survive the Atlantic crossing, perishing instead on vessels swept by disease or from a profound depression that the historical record tells us frequently seized many of the captives in its grip. Still others died within a few years of arrival, toiling on the plantations and in the mines of Europe’s colonies in the western hemisphere.”
Now, read that again, but change the players. Over a period of three centuries, White Americans, as many as 10-15 million, were wrenched from their homes and families and marched in chains to be shipped by their Black captors to Africa. Several million would die at sea. The rest would be consigned to a life of slavery and oppression by their Black masters, with their own children born into wretched servitude.
As for the Black oppressors, many of whom claimed to be committed Christians, they were convinced by biology and theology that the Whites were both inferior and cursed. They were born to be enslaved.
Faber noted that, “African merchants brought caravans of slaves to the coast for sale, while African governments not only went to war in order to obtain captives to sell into slavery but also established the trading regulations, dictated the terms, and set the prices under which the Europeans were required to operate.”
Reversing the roles again, this would speak of White Americans selling fellow Whites to the Black Africans, even going to war to capture other Whites, all for financial gain. Such is the evil of humanity.
But either way, the end result would be the same: White Americans would become White Africans, virtually all of them the descendants of slaves.
Eventually, going along with our reversed-roles scenario, the slave trade and slavery would be abolished in Africa. But for another century, in many parts of Africa, Whites would remain an inferior class, treated with inequality under the law until Civil Rights reforms in the 1960s sought to level the playing field.
Still, in the year 2020, White Africans fell far behind in many statistical categories (in all links cited, I am reversing the stats for White Americans vs. Black Americans and applying them to my imagined scenario):
As of 2020, the average net worth of a Black African family was 10 times higher than the average net worth of a White African family.
The median annual income of Black African family was $65,902 compared to $41,511 for a White African family.
For every 100,000 White Africans, 2,306 were incarcerated compared to 450 Black Africans.
Funding for Black children’s schools was much higher than funding for White children’s schools. In addition, “about 72% of [Black] students who have completed high school enrolled in college the same year, compared to 44% for [White] students.” (Once again, I am reversing the actual data in these citations.)
Out of Africa’s Fortune 500 companies, there were only three White CEO’s.
As for births out of wedlock, 69.4 percent of White African babies were born illegitimately, compared to 28.2 percent of Black African babies.
Accordingly, since so many White Africans were raised without a father, this has resulted in higher rates of drug addiction as well as higher crime rates. And so, the cycle continues.
How does this make you feel as a White African?
Now, even if systemic racism no longer existed in Africa, would anyone dispute that the plight of White Africans was directly related to their history as an enslaved, then oppressed, minority? Would anyone dispute that, on some level, this tied in with the legacy of Black supremacy?
This would not absolve White Africans from taking responsibility for their own wellbeing and social improvement today. Nor would it justify acts of violence against Black Africans. But, if there was truly a continent-wide move to see biblically-based justice and righteousness for all citizens, then Black Africans would have to wrestle with these realities and find holistic ways to level the playing field as much as possible.
Coming back to the present reality here in America in 2020, as we look to make America great for all of her citizens, let us, as White Americans, do our best to be empathetic rather than defensive when it comes to race issues.
As I’ve stated before, there’s no reason for fragility or guilt (and I say this with full recognition of the very flawed nature of the bestselling White Fragility book). At the same time, I believe it’s very easy for us as White Americans to fail to grasp the degree to which we still have not overcome the legacy of our past, whoever’s fault that may be.
To me, this does not speak of systemic racism in 2020. Instead, it speaks of a very embarrassing past that still leaves scars today.
So, let’s keep asking big questions in order to find big answers in order that, together, we can fulfill our God-given potential as a people and a nation. Mixing in a healthy dose of empathetic understanding will go a long way in helping us achieve those goals.
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Michael Brown holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from New York University and has served as a professor at a number of seminaries. He is the author of 25 books and hosts the nationally syndicated, daily talk radio show, the Line of Fire.
What a craven sycophant.
How many animals did the Africans domesticate?
Did the author ever consider what happened to White Slaves in America during this time, called indentured servants.
What if my aunt had ‘nads? She’d be my uncle.
“What if White Americans had been sold as slaves to Africa?”
If things keep going the way they are, it could still happen.
I was reading about the Roma, or Gypsies, the other day.
They were used as slaves until the mid-1800s.
RE: What a craven sycophant.
Who? The author of this article?
The very word slave is derived from the white Slavs, who were preferentially enslaved at the time, and who filled a niche market within the muslim slave trade for more than a thousand years.
How many Irish were enslaved and shipped by the British to the West Indies?
Um, they were, for over a thousand years. Thomas Jefferson and the Marines stopped the practice. Why didn’t they accomplish anything enduring with after a millenium of that slave labor?
Shores of Tripoli
If blacks took white slaves to Africa, the average net worth and median annual income of a Black African family would still be lower than the average net worth and median annual income of a Black American family here today.
“You’re aware that we’re ALL descended from slaves - right?
Don’t give in to racist hate.”
That was kind of the point of the story of Adam in Genesis - to point out that we are ALL human, that none is better in God’s eyes than anyone else because of their position, because we are all descended from Adam and Eve.
As for me, I know that my ancestors were slaves - it’s in the Bible. So I don’t put up with the BS being shoved down our throats by the race baiters.
we still would be slaves then. Because it was the WHITE man who ended world wide slavery.
He forgot to throw in an LBJ type figure with a Democrat like political party creating a “great society” social welfare program that destroyed white(black) families by making the absent of a husband in the household a mandatory factor to get any type of welfare support.
“From the halls of Montezuma...to the shores of Tripoli.”
We have an entire generation who fail to understand who and what the Barbary Pirates were, how they held hundreds of Americans in slavery, and how the United States reacted to their acts of naval terrorism. Another fine example of the failures within our education system.
It is not what HAPPENS to a People-group that defines them.
It is how that People-group copes with it and where they go from there.
Makes muslims look bad so it went down the memory hole.
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