390K to North America, 1.3M to Central America, 4M to the Caribbean and 4.8M slaves to Brazil Alone

[DabbinSauce]

THis is why i laugh when some black americans talk as if they had it worse than anyone else.

In North America, a slave was an investment. It was an asset. It was well fed and insured in some cases (AETNA) because the people that owned slaves in North America weren't all that rich. So they couldn't afford to just kill a slave just for kicks like that because they were expensive to replace.

Fresh slaves were coming off slave ships in the Caribbean on a monthly basis.

Who the fukk even said this though? What the fukk is up with you weirdo nikkas? Is you really that intimidated by African Americans?

 

[yardman]

I said "and whoever i missed in the list", didn't i?

I know bruh I just wanted to extend your list. It's all good. We good.

 

[sportscribe]

Brazil is much better than all those places (with maybe the exception of Angola where alot of Brazilians and Portuguese have been relocating) and EQ is a fukking mess its basically the private estate of the ruling family

That's why I said they have to think in terms of private sector opportunities. Trust me, there are lower middle class Indians and Chinese that end up going to these African countries and offering services the locals have not been enterprising enough to provide. Why not a well educated Brazilian or Colombian of African descent? Brazil is a fool's paradise for black people. There is no upward mobility for blacks whatsoever. Sure Brazil is an emerging economy, but while the middle class continues to expand, the black citizens are not seeing the benefits of this. They are still living in favelas and are still seen as a burden on society, treated as 2nd class citizens where they are living amongst drug cartels, and are victims of forced relocation. They can build cable cars for tourists to view them voyeuristically, but can't put money towards improved education for them.

 

[emoney]

The Slave trade was basically ran by the Portuguese, they set up shop in Africa in the late 1400's, and they were really the only Euros that really knew Africa, and African politics.

c/s and that's because the Portuguese (as well as the Spanish) were familiar with writings of Arabs and Berber historiographers and geographers (who were the first foreigners to write about West Africa)

 

[emoney]

Don't forget Denmark, The Netherlands and Sweden.

People forget those countries were involved in the slave trade as well and tend to only mention England, France, Spain, Portugal, etc.

 

[Ghost Utmost]

you know whats crazy, is that 1.3 million went to Central America and there's barely a trace of them left.

They was grinding them in the meat grinder breh. shyt gives me the chills.

 

[BigMan]

That's why I said they have to think in terms of private sector opportunities. Trust me, there are lower middle class Indians and Chinese that end up going to these African countries and offering services the locals have not been enterprising enough to provide. Why not a well educated Brazilian or Colombian of African descent? Brazil is a fool's paradise for black people. There is no upward mobility for blacks whatsoever. Sure Brazil is an emerging economy, but while the middle class continues to expand, the black citizens are not seeing the benefits of this. They are still living in favelas and are still seen as a burden on society, treated as 2nd class citizens where they are living amongst drug cartels, and are victims of forced relocation. They can build cable cars for tourists to view them voyeuristically, but can't put money towards improved education for them.

Actually in the last 5 or so years black brazilians have made tremendous progress with the advent of government affirmative action and the commodity boom. And like i said its plenty of Brazilians in Angola alot of those skyscrapers going up in Luandaare built by Chinese or Brazilian firms

 

[Yehuda]

nah

Why not? I could see myself living in Angola or Mozambique

Ride with me Malta while we bump the Panamanian GOAT:

Oh so this dude is from Panama, always thought he was Puerto Rican lol

 

[sportscribe]

Actually in the last 5 or so years black brazilians have made tremendous progress with the advent of government affirmative action and the commodity boom. And like i said its plenty of Brazilians in Angola alot of those skyscrapers going up in Luandaare built by Chinese or Brazilian firms

Where is this tangible progress? Do they have equal representation in the govermnet? Has their contribution to the GDP of Brazil increased? Perhaps you can cite some examples of this.

There are few expats from Brazil in Angola, and the majority of them are of European descent.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

When you look at the lingering social, political, and mental effect, The Atlantic Slave Trade might be the worst thing to ever happen in human history.

All the bloodshed, lost life, lost time, and the fact that racism is still taking lives today.

It won't be acknowledged as such because if people benefit from a crime in one way or another...is it really a crime? Will it be acknowledged as such?

It's estimated that if one took all of the manhours, labor, and residual fees from slave labor (ie slaves dying, getting their dead bodies thrown off of boats, and the slave owners receiving money from those bodies) in the Americas and abroad...it would total $71 TRILLION dollars.

A formal apology ain't gonna do shyt, black folks need REPARATIONS...but ofcourse that would lead to the conclusion that slavery was indeed a crime and a human rights disaster...the fact that hasn't happened has only been one of the many factors to cement a culture of anti-black cruelty that's still present today.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

Who the fukk even said this though? What the fukk is up with you weirdo nikkas? Is you really that intimidated by African Americans?

People need to stop playing the victim card and the "who had it worse" card. Black folks getting fukked royally daily...it's like a contest of who gets fukked worse. What's the point?

I swear if people dropped this...and the AA vs African vs West Indian card and just united we'd be in a better spot. Personally I hope that happens...lord knows all of these other peoples (spanish, asian, indians, lol...whites) ain't our friends and have shown it time and time again.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

Another thing (sorry to get too talkative, take up too much space)...this is why I have to when people say "get over slavery".

Sure...maybe you and your melanin deficient brethren would like us to stop talking about slavery so we don't bum you out and make you realize that everything you thought you worked hard for and your parents worked hard for you didn't earn and really don't deserve and it came from the blood sweat and tears of my people and ancestors. But it's not happening.

America is 236 years old. The transatlantic slave trade lasted 400+ years. That's almost DOUBLE the time that America has existed. Even though the current generation of black people were never enslaved, the mental scars from it's legacy are still prevalent. That's like having a 3000 pound weight on a 50 pound platform. Eventually that platform is going to buckle under the pressure of all of that weight. It's buckling now. When it collapses? Who knows.

 

[*L*E*G*A*C*Y*]

That's why I said they have to think in terms of private sector opportunities. Trust me, there are lower middle class Indians and Chinese that end up going to these African countries and offering services the locals have not been enterprising enough to provide. Why not a well educated Brazilian or Colombian of African descent? Brazil is a fool's paradise for black people. There is no upward mobility for blacks whatsoever. Sure Brazil is an emerging economy, but while the middle class continues to expand, the black citizens are not seeing the benefits of this. They are still living in favelas and are still seen as a burden on society, treated as 2nd class citizens where they are living amongst drug cartels, and are victims of forced relocation. They can build cable cars for tourists to view them voyeuristically, but can't put money towards improved education for them.

There was a video someone posted in @Angelic Servers thread about Brazil that stated that there has been NO progress for black people in Brazil. Blacks still make up less than 3% of college attendees, the police violence against blacks rivals (in fact it might even completely trump) the U.S., and yeah like you said, the majority of black people there are living in poverty.

David Banner was right on with his Vlad TV interview. White supremacy has ravaged the globe to the point there is no place where black people can prosper freely from it. NOWHERE. African countries been colonized since 1884, only 5 countries in the world have not been touched by European influence, South American countries getting on that or have been on that tip and are encouraging a whitening process to make it more European/Mixed/Less black (Argentina already succeeded in doing that). And where and when did white supremacy originate? With the transatlantic slave trade.

Whites and other non-blacks like to diminish the impact of the Transatlantic slave trade by saying "every country and world power had slaves" or that "africans sold africans into slavery" but it was never on the level of brutality or absolute inhumanity of the the Transatlantic slave trade.

I mean...sheiit....the Constitution had an amendment that had to be repealed that allowed the slave trade to continue for almost a 100 years by proclaiming through racist pseudoscience that black people were NOT full people...and other parts of it to make sure blacks/africans stayed as property and not people.

 

[BigMan]

Where is this tangible progress? Do they have equal representation in the govermnet? Has their contribution to the GDP of Brazil increased? Perhaps you can cite some examples of this.

There are few expats from Brazil in Angola, and the majority of them are of European descent.

Go to @Poitier 's thread on The Caribbean/Latin America in The Root for starters.

 

[Skooby]

Gotta read this thread later.