[Doctor Stochastic]

This was taught when I went to schoo. It's not hidden. Just because it was Blacks doing the enslaving, of course, doesn't make things right. The Europeans (and New Englanders) did the ferrying.

People weren't enslaved because they were Black but because they were weak. The slavers didn't say: "Let's find some Blacks to enslave." Rather they said: "Let's find some weak group to enslave." Historically, Africans were enslaved (often by other Africans or Arabs or Europeans for that matter) beacause they didn't have as many guns as the enslavers.

[Matchett-PI]

The GUN = "The Great Equalizer" and "The Peacemaker".

Some just seem to have a hard time adding 2+2. Those must be the ones Marx was talking about.

BTTT

[patriciaruth]

I wonder how many people know how common slavery was in the past? White people were also commonly enslaved in the Roman Empire among other places.

Thank heaven for labor slaving devices. I wonder if the reason slavery was relegated to history in most countries had more to do with the invention of the steam engine, etc. than to any increase in moral enlightenment.

[breakem]

If the Europeans were just looking to enslave weak groups, why did they have to leave europe to find slaves?

[Vineyard]

What do you mean "historically" ...

Slavery still exists in Africa.

Slavery in Africa is predominantly white Muslim Arabs enslaving black Christians and animists. It is dispicable, and what is even more disgusting is the unwillingness of so-called "black leaders" in the U.S. to condemn this slavery.

Seems that the "black-leaders" don't want to offend the Arab-Muslim ... and certainly the black-Muslims don't seem to be bothered by a little enslavement of Christians (even if the slaves are black!!)

Forget what happened 150 years ago ... look at what is happening RIGHT NOW.

Africa doesn't seem to be a very nice place to be.

And for those in this country who want reparations .. . if they get ANYTHING... they get the payment AFTER they return to "mother-Africa" (for good!!). America is a great country .. . and any those here who embrace the ideas (and don't ask for handouts) ... there is no better place. For those who think that they are "entitled" to something... just try to find a better place. [Ken Hamblin wrote a book ... "Pick a Better Country" ... a GREAT READ. And another black author wrote how thankful he was to be an American, after visiting the horror that is Africa. He realized the odds would be against him if he had been born in Africa.]

Mike

[nopardons]

The truth is, black Africans were enslacing other black Africans BEFORE there ere Arabs or white Europeans buy them, for th4eor own purposes, and PRIOR to their onwing , or ever seeing a gun ! The Zulus, for one tribe, wqadged war against other tribes, and used the conquered peoples as their slaves. Slavery , throughout the world, goes back several millenia . It is not the sole property of any one particular group or another.

[SauronOfMordor]

Historically, Africans were enslaved (often by other Africans or Arabs or Europeans for that matter) beacause they didn't have as many guns as the enslavers.

The word "slave" comes from "Slav". During the time of the Roman empire, the main source of slaves was the Slavic people in what's now Russia and Ukraine. They weren't armed and organized, and so were easy prey

beacause they didn't have as many guns as the enslavers.

It's ALWAYS a good idea to have at least as many guns as anybody who might have ideas about enslaving you...something to keep in mind the next time Chuck Shumer spouts off about more gun control being needed

[dcwusmc]

Anti-slavery, no reparations bump!