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the role Africans themselves played. And that role, it turns out, was a considerable one,

About da*n time someone put this in print. Very few people know this.

I wrote about this years ago - and my editor refused to print it - and anyone I talked to about it looked at me like I had two heads.

But now it's finally in print I think it would be hard for anyone to push through reparations...

We wouldn't have had the slaves had not the Africans captured them and brought them to the coast - whites were not about to go into the African mainlands back then.

And I said, way back, if you want to do reparations, let's start from the source of the problem - Africa, who sold her own people. (Talk about an 'inconvenient truth'.)

I would go farther: I'd say that the reason why Africans enslaved other Africans for "sale" to European ship captains was because, intially, trade was conducted by spreading a sheet on the ground and laying out your wares.

You waited for the other side to respond.

There was no language to translate; neither party could speak with and engage with the other side.

It probably didn't take long before the African side ran out of beads to trade for advanced crafted goods from Europe and simply offered women for pleasure, which any man might find difficult to resist. After that, it was probably easier to accept the rotten concept of having workers traded as well.

We live in an evil world...of our own making.

Sauron

And I said, way back, if you want to do reparations, let's start from the source of the problem - Africa, who sold her own people. (Talk about an 'inconvenient truth'.)

Thank you for your insight and speaking out.

These critical journalists might consider seeking an interview the recent owners of Houma House Plantation located on the "Mississippi River Road", south of Baton Rouge, about midway to New Orleans.

They, including the African Americans employed there conducting factual historical tours, have been working toward breaking the slavery myths in the New Orleans/Baton Rouge areas.

When we toured the Plantation in 2008, they explained these ongoing studies had uncovered, prior to the Civil War, there were more area plantation owners of African American descent than "white", and were in fact, enslaving their own race.

Don't hear much about that from the popcorn media.

As for "American slavery is the greatest crime in world history" accusations, I would say, open a factual history book, along with the some sound slave narratives, and read it.

Nearly every race has been a slave or a slave owner at some point in their history, either suffering and inflecting great crimes against humanity. Some, on a wide scale, had experienced such prolong abuse it would make the majority of American slaves look like they were seated in royalty.

Might want to ask some of the those still starving in Africa who, in the long run, got the best deal.