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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m in favor of reparations. (Wait for it...)

Reparations must be paired with mandatory repatriation of the descendants of those ‘wrongfully removed’ from Africa. After all, if they hadn’t been taken to America, they would have been in Africa. We should return those people demanding reparations to where they should be - Africa.

It’d likely be a lot cheaper than welfare...


61 posted on 08/06/2022 10:57:02 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

Maybe not. Once caught by slavers, their ancestors would more likely have been sent to the Muslim world, if they survived the trip there. And once there, if this is true, no reproducing was allowed for sub-Saharan Africans:


As to the Arab-Muslim slave trade, Ghanaian professor and minister John Azumah helped set the record straight in “The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa.” In an interview about his book, Azumah said the following:

“It is estimated that possibly as many as 11 million Africans were transported across the Atlantic, 95% of which went to South and Central America, mainly to Portuguese, Spanish and French possessions; only 5% of the slaves ended up in what we call the United States today. However, a minimum of 28 million Africans were enslaved in the Muslim Middle East. Since at least 80% of those captured by the Muslim slave traders were calculated to have died before reaching the slave markets, it is believed that the death toll from 1,400 years of Arab and Muslim slave raids into Africa could have been as high as 112 million.”

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/elder-why-dont-they-teach-about-the-arab-muslim-slave-trade


Now, his estimate of the numbers enslaved by Muslims is far higher than the usual, so I wonder...

But you don’t see blacks and mixed-race folks in Arab countries, do you? Aside from mixed-race people in Sudan, you don’t see them in most North African countries, either (Morocco, etc.) So yeah, I wonder ...

Anyway, if true,the descendants of slaves here likely would have never been born.


74 posted on 08/06/2022 2:04:32 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "All's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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