Posted on 05/24/2010 9:34:34 AM PDT by Starman417
A month and a day ago, Henry Louis Gates wrote a remarkable op-ed for the NYTimes, "How to End the Slavery Blame-Game".
"Remarkable" because of who wrote it (and I suppose remarkable whenever the NYTimes prints something that actually makes us believers in American exceptionalism stand up and cheer).
If the Nation of Islam is booing it, then you know the Harvard professor must have said something right.
Here's part of what he wrote:
While we are all familiar with the role played by the United States and the European colonial powers like Britain, France, Holland, Portugal and Spain, there is very little discussion of the role Africans themselves played. And that role, it turns out, was a considerable one, especially for the slave-trading kingdoms of western and central Africa. These included the Akan of the kingdom of Asante in what is now Ghana, the Fon of Dahomey (now Benin), the Mbundu of Ndongo in modern Angola and the Kongo of todays Congo, among several others.For centuries, Europeans in Africa kept close to their military and trading posts on the coast. Exploration of the interior, home to the bulk of Africans sold into bondage at the height of the slave trade, came only during the colonial conquests, which is why Henry Morton Stanleys pursuit of Dr. David Livingstone in 1871 made for such compelling press: he was going where no (white) man had gone before.
How did slaves make it to these coastal forts? The historians John Thornton and Linda Heywood of Boston University estimate that 90 percent of those shipped to the New World were enslaved by Africans and then sold to European traders. The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.
Read more at floppingaces.net...
So, how many of the African Slave Traders were of an Islamic persuasion?
Blame game? I’ve never played it, only because I neither refuse to accept responsibility for nor will I apologize for things which I have NOT done.
Is it possible, unlike the Zero, Henry Gates learned a lesson from his experience.
Virtually every American who defines himself as Black has white ancestors. Maybe we should two shares of the reparation be deducted for each white ancestor - one for the part of him that isn’t black and therefore doesn’t “deserve” a share, and one part to pay for the debt “owed” by that white ancestor.
Maybe we should DEDUCT two shares....
I meant to say.
Another good question for the Nation of Islam:
So, how many of the African & Middle-Eastern Slave Traders ARE of an Islamic persuasion? As in NOW...
To be honest, I think most of it was just tribal. Give an aggressive tribe some gold or better weapons, and they’ll gladly crush their rivals for you.
So Henry Louis Gates, obnoxious elitist neighbor, is trying to rehabilitate himself in the neighborhood.
The greatest slave trader of all time was an Egyptian named (are you ready?) - Muhammad Ali. The Arabic for black and slave is the same. The good professor should give credit where credit is due.
Mark
Wow - a telling picture...But of course, “Skip” Gates is a close friend of Obama’s, or so we’re told.
Wow, a Harvard Professor discovers the obvious and its considered sensational. Is the NYT that ignorant of history that they didn’t know Africans enslaved Africans? Shoosh, the amount of new discoveries must be great if you are a fool.
ping for later
Sure Racist Gates and while you are at that Crock of Obama, how about paying back all the white money you have Pigged out on all your filthy life for starters.
is this a shock to anyone? of course africans sold africans into slavery. it has been well known for many, many years. usually the winning tribe in a tribe war would sell the losers into slavery.
now, the real question:
does 0bama have slave blood... or slave trader blood?
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