White People Rationalizing Slavery with "You sold them to us" Unappreciation

[AAKing23]

I just don't understand it brehs



I hate when white people try to exonerate themselves of all responsibility when it comes to slavery by saying "Africans sold their own people into slavery" which I can say is true, but definitely not to the extent that they paint it as:obamaohhh:


The majority of slaves were captured by Europeans and that's just the truth, these nikkas act like the white man came all peacefully like "Are you interested in selling us slaves"


This excuse is the equivalent of buying a known stolen car from someone, it still doesn't make it right

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Being a slave and being brutalized and treated like filth are two different things.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

This makes me want to choke people out. "Oh, well... I just couldn't resist! Someone was selling something to me and I just didn't have the wherewithal to say no! Therefore I have no responsibility for the centuries of oppression that happened thereafter!

 

[Brofato]

It's the argument that lets you know the person you're talking to is an idiot.

 

[Lavish]

what also bothers me is when they say "white people were slaves too"

 

[Majestyx]

It's worse when black people say that shyt.

 

[King P]

 

[mozichrome]

what white people you be around says this

 

[LurkMoar]

now i agree with what OP is saying but if you look into history black people did sell eachother for guns and alchohol


But to say white people had to part in it is ridiculous, they were capturing Africans up and down the western coast of Africa. And they bribed,payed or intimidated other blacks to go deeper into Africa to get them some slaves.

 

[jfkennedy]

The concept of slavery exonerated by us, and by white people is completely different.

Many societies in Africa with kings and hierarchical forms of government traditionally kept slaves. But these were mostly used for domestic purposes. They were an indication of power and wealth and not used for commercial gain. However, with the appearance of Europeans desperate to buy slaves for use in the Americas, the character of African slave ownership changed.

They didn't know when it started that for the most part they'd be on plantations and going through what they went through.

 

[Grams]

It's worse when black people say that shyt.

2010 on during the World Cup, Ghana vs USA. It was a thread talking about "if you root for USA over Ghana then you're a c00n". It's still one of the most embarrassing things I've ever seen on the internet. Fake militants running rampant on one side and the other side it was dumb asses talking about "they sold us into slavery in the first place fukk em"

Embarrassing

 

[QuintessentialBM]

They are trolling...... That is the second excuse white people give after "I didn't own any slaves."

I don't pay it attention anymore because cac's are gon cac. What are you doing right now to fix the injustices of the past?(Talking to black folks)

 

[LordTaskForce]

The concept of slavery exonerated by us, and by white people is completely different.



They didn't know when it started that for the most part they'd be on plantations and going through what they went through.

exactly, ownership of a person for commercial gain was really abstract to them. Same thing happened with the native americans. They believed that you could not "own" the earth, it was communal. So when the englishmen came through and said here we'll give you all this money and jewels and guns if you give us some land and the Indians were like these motherfukkers are dumb as hell. And then the cacs became cacs

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

The concept of slavery exonerated by us, and by white people is completely different.



They didn't know when it started that for the most part they'd be on plantations and going through what they went through.

this

 

[LurkMoar]

exactly, ownership of a person for commercial gain was really abstract to them. Same thing happened with the native americans. They believed that you could not "own" the earth, it was communal. So when the englishmen came through and said here we'll give you all this money and jewels and guns if you give us some land and the Indians were like these motherfukkers are dumb as hell. And then the cacs became cacs

Indians would take the money and be back on the land the next day