Your argument is getting weaker and weaker. First of all the abuse started in Africa with Africans. Since people did not willing become slaves they meant that people had to be forced into slavery. A typical slave raid involved Africans attacking the villages of other Africans during which time people were injured or killed. The survivors were hauled away chained at their necks and with their hands either tied behind them or to the devices attached to their necks.
People were sold multiple times through middle markets owned by other Africans until they eventually got to the coast. So Africans had other Africans enslaved the whole time as their captives and those captives were not free to leave. So that was slavery in Africa and ultimate sale to the White men at the coast did not place you into slavery for the first time, because Africans had enslaved Africans during the whole process leading up to the sale to the Whites.
That Global Racial Hierarchy nonsense that you are discussing is due to Africans not seeing the big picture and being victims of their own shortsightedness, because they (Africans) were the ones that brought about their own colonization by the Europeans which put them (Africans in Africa) on the bottom of the Global Racial Hierarchy. The absurdity in your whole premise of trying compare human behavior to the manufacture of a product was lost on me.
Let's try again ..
The Germans were enslaved by the Romans.
The southern Indians were enslaved by the Northern Indians.
The Native Americans were enslaved by the Columbus insurgents.
The Gypsies (Romani) were enslaved by Romanians.
The Brits were enslaved by the Romans.
etc.
The difference between those enslavements and black transatlantic-enslavement is that black transatlantic-enslavement (in addition to scale) was not just "enslavement".
The above listed enslavements are in the past (to varying but significant degrees) because of the small footprint effect that they have on current
global life. The Romanian Gypsy who is looked down on in Western Europe can escape this in South America, Canada, Australasia or the Middle East. The native american who has issues in northern America can escape much of this within Europe.
Black enslavement effects are ever-present (everywhere) PRINCIPALLY BECAUSE of the stuff that happened
in addition to forced labour. A black man is considered inferior even if his bloodline was never enslaved. That is not because of slavery (forced labour) but because of 400-odd years of the manufacturing of a negative image of
all black people done by non-black people. Whites especially and Arabs worked for centuries (and continue to do so) to label all black people as
irredeemably genetically compromised.
If we removed the genetic and race concepts from humanity we would be left with the economic consequences of slavery and a clear free way for black people to extricate themselves from it unhindered by the burden of RACISM.
Instead what we have is a system that actively confounds
all black people, everywhere on the basis of the additional non-forced labour century-long focus by white scientists, politicians, sociologists, military and religious figures to establish that
ALL black people are deserving of their position indelibly because of
what we are.That mark from fake science is what means that nations which have had little to nothing to do with the slave-trade itself find themselves trading in this "science", which in turn serves to make the racial hierarchy
global and resistant to change.
Unlike economic, cultural or tribal slavery (as evidenced by the fact that past conquerors would often take the women and kill the men), this new European invention was of a more fundamental nature.
Remove that hierarchy and the world would be a very different place, and "slavery" would be far less "with us" than it is. It would no longer be the case that the richest black man could be brought lower than the poorest white man based on the colour of his skin. That stuff that happened to Oprah, Dre, Obama etc would not happen. As a black man your right to a good job, home or a position of authority would not be questioned. If you passed the exams, passed the interview and have the ability you would be as welcomed as anyone else. Unfair trade could no longer hide behind the race-hewn fig-leaf of the widely held and deeply buried assumption of "it is somehow their own fault" and "nothing to do with good old us".
Under those conditions slavery would largely be a matter for economic policy (reparations), remorse/contrition and would begin to recede into history, rather than be the ever-present 24/7 constant thrum of of day-to-day institutional and societal exclusion which blights HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of lives every day (including millions of africans) and which shows
little sign of improvement. In fact some might feel it reasonable to suggest that it is getting worse.
The blame for
this 24/7 war of psychological, mental, emotional and exclusionary attrition falls squarely at the feet of the people that created it and who propagate it daily, right the way up until today. The fact that they include Africans as targets as well, shows that while it is routinely conflated with the slavery timeline (and effects), in common parlance, it is a separate, larger and supplemental war that didn't have to come along with "forced labour".
While these deeds may have hitched-a-ride on the "forced labour" actions they are not targeted at the group demarcated by those who were in the victims of this "forced labour". It is an all-encompassing attack on
all black people, the driver of which in no way shape of form, can be attributed to the black victims of that attack - a group of victims which happens to include africans themselves.
"The absurdity in your whole premise of trying compare human behavior to the manufacture of a product was lost on me."
These definitions might help you:
abetting
enabling
In other words fitting analogies based on these commonalities. I know some have issues with analogical reasoning so ...
"shortsightedness"
Normal human gifts would not enable them to see 400 years into the future.
Gifted as they might have been the concepts of scientific race+racism, genetics etc were probably beyond them (and everyone else on earth) at that point in time.
