Imagine bringing up who sold the slaves to westerners in the first place. That will quadrangle the woke's head. They likely believe white people stormed the beaches of West Africa and ripped babies from mothers arms.
This is the problem with this Marxist ideology, this oppressed and oppressor view of the world, this delineation of race as the governing factor in social affairs.
It renders the believer incapable of viewing reality and history and society as it is, rather it is broken down into a simple equation that relies quite heavily on scapegoat politics.
The world is complex, but many people are simple, they want a pill to fix everything, not a new routine that is healthy.
So you know slavery has been going on from the beginning of recorded history? That in the last couple of millenia Arab Muslims were leading the charge? That Africans were gathering and selling their fellow Africans? That only a fraction of the African souls were sold in the colonies - not yet America? That there were Africans on our continent who were themselves slave owners? That children are enslaved for sex in America TODAY but the media, this administration and the wokey wokes have show NO INTEREST in this travesty? Need I go on? I've had quite enough of disingenuous wokeness.
Your comment is so discombobulated I can not tell what your point is, outside of irrational assumptions, oddball questions and the typical scoffing that comes with the socially illiterate, I have no clue what you are trying to get across, other than purposefully embarrass yourself.
Trying to justify enslavement seems a sorry hill to die on. I want my child taught that slavery is wrong no matter the enslaver. I also want them to know the enslaved fought back..
From Howard French
It is often remarked that Africans themselves sold enslaved people to Europeans. What is less well known is that in many parts of Africa, such as the Kingdom of Kongo and Benin, Africans fought to end the trade in human beings once they understood its full impact on their own societies. Enslaved people resisted in numerous shipboard revolts, or by simply taking their own lives at sea rather than submit to bondage.
Imagine bringing up who sold the slaves to westerners in the first place. That will quadrangle the woke's head. They likely believe white people stormed the beaches of West Africa and ripped babies from mothers arms.
This is the problem with this Marxist ideology, this oppressed and oppressor view of the world, this delineation of race as the governing factor in social affairs.
It renders the believer incapable of viewing reality and history and society as it is, rather it is broken down into a simple equation that relies quite heavily on scapegoat politics.
The world is complex, but many people are simple, they want a pill to fix everything, not a new routine that is healthy.
Sorry to disappoint you. Woke people know about slavery in Africa.
The Civil War was fought to maintain the Union, not to free the enslaved.
Have you read Barracoon by Zora Neal Hurston or see the movie “Warrior King”?
Conservative arrogance is hilarious.
Edit to add:
Ever hear of the female warriors of Dahomey?
So you know slavery has been going on from the beginning of recorded history? That in the last couple of millenia Arab Muslims were leading the charge? That Africans were gathering and selling their fellow Africans? That only a fraction of the African souls were sold in the colonies - not yet America? That there were Africans on our continent who were themselves slave owners? That children are enslaved for sex in America TODAY but the media, this administration and the wokey wokes have show NO INTEREST in this travesty? Need I go on? I've had quite enough of disingenuous wokeness.
I know the founders said that the United States would be where all men were equal even as they allowed slavery.
Ugh, what a painfully simplistic take.
Sorry to rekindle, but, ouch, this hurts. Yikes!
The original sin.
Define?
Your comment is so discombobulated I can not tell what your point is, outside of irrational assumptions, oddball questions and the typical scoffing that comes with the socially illiterate, I have no clue what you are trying to get across, other than purposefully embarrass yourself.
The point is no one forced the colonists to purchase the slaves.
No one forced Africans to sell Africans into slavery either and yet it happened. Do you have any other "point"?
No, my point is made. Whites of the civilized world had the same morals as the Africans. Colonists burned women alive.
One might even say slavery is an historic norm. Kudos to White Americans for ending it.
You think he is socially illiterate. I want a definition of terms
You are hilarious. Your words only make sense to a Conservative audience full of apologists for slavery.
Peace Out
Trying to justify enslavement seems a sorry hill to die on. I want my child taught that slavery is wrong no matter the enslaver. I also want them to know the enslaved fought back..
From Howard French
It is often remarked that Africans themselves sold enslaved people to Europeans. What is less well known is that in many parts of Africa, such as the Kingdom of Kongo and Benin, Africans fought to end the trade in human beings once they understood its full impact on their own societies. Enslaved people resisted in numerous shipboard revolts, or by simply taking their own lives at sea rather than submit to bondage.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/12/africa-slaves-erased-from-history-modern-world#:~:text=It%20is%20often%20remarked%20that,impact%20on%20their%20own%20societies.