Why do Africans never get criticized?

[DillaTUDE]

Not all whites held slaves only the wealthy could. The majority of whites were not slave holders.

It's clear from this quote that your sole motive for creating this thread was to absolve white people of the blame for slavery.

What a pathetic Eurocentrist you are.

 

[Deluuxe]

It's clear from this quote that your sole motive for creating this thread was to absolve white people of the blame for slavery.

What a pathetic Eurocentrist you are.

B-b-but not all Africans sold slaves! Only the chiefs and kings!

Not all whites held slaves only the wealthy could. The majority of whites were not slave holders.

But pointing logic out is something afrocentrics hate. They're a very emotional victim based people. Their victimhood will always overcome their logic. African nations allied with Europeans in the sale of slaves and practised slavery before Europeans showed up. Of course this narrative doesn't fit A. Their victimhood towards whites. B. Their mama africa mentality C. This idea that all blacks lived in this big loving one another utopia before the evil whites came and broke up their unity

 

[ThatTruth777]

I suppose Africans never endured any hardships after losing a significant portion of their respective populations

OP = idiot

 

[Deluuxe]

I suppose Africans never endured any hardships after losing a significant portion of their respective populations

OP = idiot

So what? They're the a major reason why some of your ancestors are over here.

 

[MalikReloaded]

Africans were selling Africans from rival tribes. Before nationalism, people identified by tribe. There was no concept of race, of blackness. There was no unity. It was like Germans killing Jews or Japs killing Chinese or Aztecs killing all of the smaller Central American tribes. If you're smart enough to ask this question, you're smart enough to know that. Whites took advantage of the ethnic rivalries, and fueled it further, by offering riches and weapons to whichever side could capture the other. Even if one side didnt want to enslave Africans, they basically had to because if not the other side would end up with more weaponry and more resources to dominate them (i shouldn't say HAD TO but, that was the dirty game Europeans were playing). Plus, let's not pretend that Europeans were "asking". They had superior weaponry. It was still get down or lay down. They didn't bring massive ships to West Africa to go back empty handed. They would have gotten what they wanted one way......or another. Also, slavery in the old world wasn't chattel slavery. I'm not even gonna go into this. Look it up yourself. There's a huge difference between slavery in the Ancient World and what went on in America. Lastly, Africans paid dearly for their mistake. 10-20 million Africans were stripped from the continent. That's a catastrophic loss of manpower and brainpower. Think of all the inventors, leaders, thinkers, etc. that could have progressed Africa over the last 400 years that were lost to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade And its not like Europeans just took the slaves and bounced. They came back and colonized the continent. Carved it up like a thanksgiving turkey and gift wrapped every corner of Africa to their fellow cac brothers, drawing arbritary borders to divide up their share of the precious (stolen) resources. Africa paid dearly.

 

[AJaRuleStan]

Little bit off topic, but the entire argument about Africans being completely unaware of the European style of slavery sounds like complete and total bullshyt.

Africans were not morons, they understood that they differed drastically from the Europeans in terms of language, dress, technology, and customs. And all of this can be proven by recorded accounts. Yet i'm suppose to believe when it came to slavery Africans just assumed Europeans practiced it the exact same way they did, despite Africans understanding that the Europeans differed from them on every other category imaginable? Sorry, that doesn't even sound plausible.

Now, I'm not saying they were fully aware of the cruelty associated with cattle slavery in places like Brazil, but I seriously doubt that they assumed the European style of slavery was equivalent to theirs. Matter of fact, the African traders who made the exchanges at the coast could probably tell by the way Europeans handled the slaves that their concept of slavery was completely different from anything they knew.

 

[MrPentatonic]

Little big off topic, but the entire argument about Africans being completely unaware of the European style of slavery sounds like complete and total bullshyt.

Africans were not morons, They understood that they differed drastically from the Europeans in terms of language, dress, technology, and customs. And all of this can be proven by recorded accounts. Yet i'm suppose to believe when it came to slavery Africans just assumed Europeans practiced it the exact same way they did, despite Africans understanding that the Europeans differed from them on every other category imaginable? Sorry, that doesn't even sound plausible.

Now I'm not saying they were fully aware of the cruelty associated with "cattle slavery", but I seriously doubt they assumed the Europeans style of slavery was equivalent to theirs. Matter of fact, the African traders who made the exchanges at the coast could probably tell by the way Europeans handled the slaves that their concept of slavery was completely different from theirs.

Ofcourse. Just like people knew what Hitler was doing to the Jews.

Trade slave industry and how it balooned and its effects is human greed at its finest.

It reminds me of the prison industry a little bit. When having prisons become a way to make profit, there is always going to be pressure to have more criminals. We have prison industries and prison guard unions lobbying against giving people less time for non-violent crimes.....

Read about the prison industrial complex & penal, parallels definitely exist between that and slave trade

American Slavery, Reinvented

Some people know its going on right now, some dont...but ultimately, who can change it?