The other kinds pale in comparison.
Hispanic on black ethnic cleansing has been going on for years in Southern California.
Is the same Armstrong Williams who said he voted for 0bama because he was black?
That's not exactly true...
Fellow Africans willing to sell one another, Arab slave traders, and by the way, wasn't the first person to change indentured servitude to slavery in the Colonial America, black?
True, as far as it goes. But other cultures had been taking slaves for thousands of years before the white colonists in the New World. Slavery was an institution as old as civilization itself. And less that a century after the United States was founded, a great war was fought to eliminate slavery, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives.
The debt is paid in full.
“After all, it was white colonists who forcibly removed Africans from their homeland and brought them to America to serve as slaves on plantations.”
As others have pointed out, that’s not the way it went. Africans were willing to sell other Africans to slave traders. Still are.
Mr. Williams needs to study up on his facts more before he writes such articles.
You can’t discuss african slavery without the muslim slave traders that sold blacks to europeans, and you can’t discuss the black tribal warfare that went on where the winning side slaughtered the losers, but only later did the losers get to live because the black tribal winners sold the losers into slavery.
You can’t discuss it without mentioning slavery still is well in existence in Africa and the middle east. Not here. Not in any european country.
Let’s get a more complete, objective, unbiased, non-propagandist view here.
Countries don’t naturally form with a diverse population, and when in the past they’ve occurred it’s usually been as a result of armed conquest. These unnaturally formed countries have either melded together into a single population made up of one mixed race with one language and one religion or they’ve come apart, and they’ve usually come apart with extreme violence. The longer these diverse populations are forced to coexist with one another without mixing and becoming one, the more the hatred grows among them and the more violently they break apart, but break apart they will, or genocide will settle the issue once and for all.
Why is this and why can’t we all just get along? The truth of the matter is that we (the human race) just aren’t as civilized as we would like to think we are. Our species, Homo-sapiens-sapiens, isn’t that long “out of the trees” and the veneer of civilization is very thin, to non-existent, upon us all. We’re all carrying the genes that got us here and some of those genes carry a very basic survival instinct that has allowed us to survive thus far.
This most basic of all survival instincts is self-preservation and it’s the one that warns us to be very wary of those who are different than us, our family, and our tribe. Those who possessed this survival instinct survived and reproduced, and those who had no fear/distrust of strangers didn’t survive. Over the years, this survival instinct has been referred to as tribalism, nationalism, ethnocentrism, racism, and various other isms, but it’s an inborn instinct carried in our genes whether we like it or not.
Mr. Williams might also mention the role of Muslims and Islam in the slave trade...
Actually, it was other native black Africans who sold them to white slave traders who used the real force when they captured them from other tribes.
Uhh.... I thought it was fellow Africans and Arabs who did this and then sold them to the whites.
It’s called the Balkanization of America.
Compared to America, the Balkans are racially very little diversified.
Yeah, well, it was their fellow Africans who rounded them up and sold them.
Besides, those colonists were not Americans yet, they were still Europeans.
It was Americans who began the effort to abolish slavery in America.
He’s a liar. muslims stole blacks from their homeland and enslaved them, other black Africans did as well. Few whites did this, although of course they played their part down the line.
Just get it right.
No need to read further. Apparently the Author chooses to IGNORE the FACT that it was blacks who sold blacks INTO slavery during the colonial period, and today STILL blacks sell blacks into slavery in Africa.
But those pesky facts get in the way of a good emotional argument ....
Portugese coffee growers in Brazil initiated the traffic in African slaves to the Western hemisphere. A South America-bound shipload of slaves, blown off course by a storm, un-intentionally brought the first African slaves to the English colonies, specifically Jamestown.
You got your troubles. I got mine.
Or not.
Blacks are the biggest racists!