Bringing Africans to these shores was a catastrophic mistake that will likely prove fatal in the end. And yet those of African descent who are here now benefited from that slave trade or they would be living in mud huts dodging lions, crocs and cobras as we speak. They have the easiest lives of any African descendants in the world and hate it.
“Thank God My Granddaddy got on that boat!” - Muhammad Ali
We never should have participated in the centuries old African slave trade.
NEVER
Just because Africans were selling didn’t mean we should have been buying. It’s the same as a thief selling stolen goods. The thief is evil - but that trade would not exist if the stuff wasn’t being ‘bought’... We bear some responsibility for ‘buying’ what NEVER should have been sold.
Luckily we put a stop to that evil - to slavery - here in the US and then went toi Africa and put an end to slavery there.
Yes, Africans were selling people which was evil - but for our part we never should have allowed our citizens to buy them.
No civilized cultures sell their fellow citizens. It was so disgusting... Africans were to blame but we should never have participated in their evil.