The US and UK should apologize for buying slaves when Africans in Africa apologize for selling them to us.
What really get me is the fact slaves were bought and sold in sub-Sahara Africa 800 years before the white man ever set foot in N. America.
The slave trade was a thriving enterprise run by Muslims since 700 ad.
White men were customers, just as Arabs were. Just for once I’d like to see a film, a book-anything thats traces slavery from its inception. And, criticize Muslims for their role.
But no, that wouldn’t serve the interests of race warlords like Jackson, Sharrpton and their cohorts.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I can’t get no Reparations...
(Of course the French -- not being racists [sarcasm] -- weren't into domestic slavery. They preferred to enslave Africans and Asians on French-owned plantations in their colonies...an arrangement that hoped to continue even after WWII.)
I agree with Jesse on this. I think all living slaves should be given reparations from living slaveholders. Its only right. Now I can’t fathom why somebody who is descended from generations of free people should get a cent.
No way. It couldn't be true (Is a sarc tag really necessary?)
Jesse Jackson has done more to perpetuate racism than any man living, with the possible execption of Al Sharpton.
I’m waiting for Jesse Jackson to approach Native Americans for reparations.
Indians had slaves, y’know, and their mistreatment of them extends to the present day. See http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17442676/ for example.