1.6%

[airflite1]

25 minutes ago, SnowRider said:

Starts a thread about race and then gets butthurt when he’s made to look like a fool   Poor Jimmy MAGAt’s  

Actually he didn't, according to your link the only part of his post that was wrong(according to the fact checkers) was the number was 1.4% instead of 1.6%. Just because slave ownership wasn't legal in all states doesn't change the overall percentage of the nation.

Edited June 18, 2023 by airflite1

[Rigid1]

54 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

The statues that GOP’ers gush over. 

I don't think history should be removed no matter how awful it was, that's how we learn and gain from our mistakes..

[Rigid1]

55 minutes ago, SnowRider said:

So apparently white nationalists Repugs know better than 90% of blacks who support Dems….. sounds legit  

That's awfully racist, but also expected from you

[Jimmy Snacks]

1 hour ago, SnowRider said:

Starts a thread about race and then gets butthurt when he’s made to look like a fool   Poor Jimmy MAGAt’s  

Not butthurt at all and the only that looks like a fool here is you…Every Single Day.

[spin_dry]

19 minutes ago, Rigid1 said:

I don't think history should be removed no matter how awful it was, that's how we learn and gain from our mistakes..

Statues glorify. No need for that. 

[Rigid1]

12 minutes ago, spin_dry said:

Statues glorify. No need for that. 

In your opinion, my opinion differs, I think of them as reminders and educational pieces.. Obviously everyone could/can interpret them differently..I'm surprised with your past career you wouldn't know that........

[Sleepr2]

2 hours ago, SnowRider said:

Are you referring to the confederate statues of Dems that Dems want removed and Repugs are throwing a fit over?  Those statues? 

Does that change the fact that your heroes are slave owners?

[Sleepr2]

1 hour ago, SnowRider said:

Starts a thread about race and then gets butthurt when he’s made to look like a fool   Poor Jimmy MAGAt’s  

Make a complete ass of himself with lies , hypocrisy and blatant ignorance , completely makes a fool of himself about a fuse on a sled and deflects when he’s made to be an ignorant fool,,,,poor lil toolkit. 

[XCR1250]

Researchers uncover Africans' part in slavery

 

From Correspondent Gary Strieker

CAPE COAST, Ghana (CNN) -- For centuries along the West African coast, millions of Africans were sold into slavery and shipped across the Atlantic to the Americas.

The middlemen were European slave traders based in forts like Ghana's Cape Coast Castle, now a tourist attraction and a somber reminder of a brutal crime against humanity.

That crime is usually blamed entirely on the European outsiders who inflicted slavery on African victims. But new research by some African scholars supports a different view - - that Africans should share the blame for slavery.

"It was the Africans themselves who were enslaving their fellow Africans, sending them to the coast to be shipped outside," says researcher Akosua Perbi of the University of Ghana. (88K AIFF sound file or 88K WAV sound)

Based on her studies, Perbi says that European slave traders, almost without exception, did not themselves capture slaves. They bought them from other Africans, usually kings or chiefs or wealthy merchants.

The question is, why did Africans sell their own people?

http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9510/ghana_slavery/chiefs1.gifFor a thousand years before Europeans arrived in Africa, slaves were commonly sold and taken by caravans north across the Sahara.

"Slavery did exist in Africa," says Irene Odotei of the University of Ghana.

In many African cultures, slavery was an accepted domestic practice, but it was slavery of a different kind. In Africa, the slave usually had rights, protection under law, and social mobility.

"Many house owners would call their slaves as their daughters or sons," says Perbi. "They became part of the kin or family or lineage of the owners." (100K AIFF sound file or 100K WAV sound)

 

The Atlantic slave trade grew at a time when many African states were at war with each other, taking prisoners that could easily be sold to traders in exchange for guns.

"It's the gun which was a deciding factor in the slave trade -- introduced by Europe," says Odotei.

But while Africans may have sold their own people into slavery, researchers say the kings and chiefs had no idea of the brutality of slavery on the other side of the ocean. If they had, they say, maybe the slave trade across the Atlantic would never have grown so huge, or lasted for so many years.

Sharing the guilt for slavery may be disturbing and painful for Africans, but researchers say their objective is clear.

"They're trying to uncover the facts so that people will take a lesson from the evil of the past and say 'no more,'" says Kwame Arhin of the Institute of African Affairs.

http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9510/ghana_slavery/gunguy1.gifAnd there is one thing they insist they are not doing.

"I'm not trying to shift blame or to make the Europeans feel less guilty," explains Perbi.

For what many believe was the world's greatest crime against humanity, there is more than enough guilt to share.

[SnowRider]

 Racists justifying being racists  

[Steve753]

1 minute ago, SnowRider said:

 Racists justifying being racists  

That's you!

[spin_dry]

2 hours ago, Rigid1 said:

In your opinion, my opinion differs, I think of them as reminders and educational pieces.. Obviously everyone could/can interpret them differently..I'm surprised with your past career you wouldn't know that........

They’ve been relegated to museums. Just like nazi memorabilia. Perfect place for them. 

[ArcticCrusher]

40 minutes ago, XCR1250 said:

Researchers uncover Africans' part in slavery

 

From Correspondent Gary Strieker

CAPE COAST, Ghana (CNN) -- For centuries along the West African coast, millions of Africans were sold into slavery and shipped across the Atlantic to the Americas.

The middlemen were European slave traders based in forts like Ghana's Cape Coast Castle, now a tourist attraction and a somber reminder of a brutal crime against humanity.

That crime is usually blamed entirely on the European outsiders who inflicted slavery on African victims. But new research by some African scholars supports a different view - - that Africans should share the blame for slavery.

"It was the Africans themselves who were enslaving their fellow Africans, sending them to the coast to be shipped outside," says researcher Akosua Perbi of the University of Ghana. (88K AIFF sound file or 88K WAV sound)

Based on her studies, Perbi says that European slave traders, almost without exception, did not themselves capture slaves. They bought them from other Africans, usually kings or chiefs or wealthy merchants.

The question is, why did Africans sell their own people?

http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9510/ghana_slavery/chiefs1.gifFor a thousand years before Europeans arrived in Africa, slaves were commonly sold and taken by caravans north across the Sahara.

"Slavery did exist in Africa," says Irene Odotei of the University of Ghana.

In many African cultures, slavery was an accepted domestic practice, but it was slavery of a different kind. In Africa, the slave usually had rights, protection under law, and social mobility.

"Many house owners would call their slaves as their daughters or sons," says Perbi. "They became part of the kin or family or lineage of the owners." (100K AIFF sound file or 100K WAV sound)

 

The Atlantic slave trade grew at a time when many African states were at war with each other, taking prisoners that could easily be sold to traders in exchange for guns.

"It's the gun which was a deciding factor in the slave trade -- introduced by Europe," says Odotei.

But while Africans may have sold their own people into slavery, researchers say the kings and chiefs had no idea of the brutality of slavery on the other side of the ocean. If they had, they say, maybe the slave trade across the Atlantic would never have grown so huge, or lasted for so many years.

Sharing the guilt for slavery may be disturbing and painful for Africans, but researchers say their objective is clear.

"They're trying to uncover the facts so that people will take a lesson from the evil of the past and say 'no more,'" says Kwame Arhin of the Institute of African Affairs.

http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9510/ghana_slavery/gunguy1.gifAnd there is one thing they insist they are not doing.

"I'm not trying to shift blame or to make the Europeans feel less guilty," explains Perbi.

For what many believe was the world's greatest crime against humanity, there is more than enough guilt to share.

Who do you think sold the slaves in the first place.  Reparations should start there.

[Highmark]

Ah yes slavery.....another topic we select to categorize people into groups to pit the races against one another for actions not one person in the US is personally responsible for.

We love to do that in America....call groups "communities" when it fits an agenda until the group or community is doing something bad then well its not a group its bad individuals.  

Got to love when Wallace goes "well I'm Jewish" to somehow cover that he's not "white."

This was occurring in the 80's and 90's and it was working.  MSM and the democraps are the reason "racism" is in the forefront of todays society. 

  

Edited June 19, 2023 by Highmark

[Skidooski]

11 hours ago, spin_dry said:

They’ve been relegated to museums. Just like nazi memorabilia. Perfect place for them. 

To be glorified 

[Snake]

Hillary hated slavery so much she brought it to Libya....