Its seems you may not be aware of the Ashanti and Zulu wars of Africa. There were many, many wars before that between the Greeks/Romans and the Egyptians/Ethiopians/Arabs. Ever since Europeans made their way into Africa, from ancient to present, Africans have been trying to do their best to fight Europeans and get them off of their backs.
Last edited by Stereococktail on Jan 18th, 2006 at 12:29 AM
This is very much true. But, things really got out of hand when the Arabs took over Africa. And, I'm not necessarily taking about present day light skinned Arabs. I'm taking about ancient black Arabs, too, enslaving who looked like them. Such a shame.
When you boil the BS down, it's all about money. The question is, are we gonna do it to our own people, or the other people?
And the answer is: To both. Proof: Look back at History. I think every race that ever existed has been a slave during one era or another and out of that, most of these races had same-race slave owners.
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Ehhhhh???
AFrica cradled great civilisations in many different places. One problem is thinking that Africa is ONE big country... It isn't. It contains thousands of different cultures and many civilisations.
White europeans knew Africans for thousands of years... During the age of exploration europeans needed cheap labour in the new colonies out west. And slavery was nothing new in SOME parts of Africa... Heck Rome's economy was build on slaves. Back then skin-colour just didn't matter.
There were black slave-traders as well. But soon the need for slaves exploded, and europeans and americans started rading African coasts and abducted hundreds of thousand of people.
The first LAW against "inter-racial" marriages was made in Virginia in the... I think early 17th century... There were europeans who worked for slave-wages in the new colonies to pay their fare. And Africans abducted from Africa working along-side them.
Som historians believe the "racism" was born in the new colonies to keep white "slaves" and black slaves from mingling too much and getting the idea, that they needed freedom and better wages.
"Racism" as such, based solely on SKIN-colour, is a fairly new idea in human history. It was also needed to JUSTIFY the treatment of Africans in age of liberal ideas and "all men are created equal" (not just blacks and women at the time...).
Then watch Mississipi Burning...
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The whites were not "slaves" as such. They had signed working-contracts to receive passage to The New World, contracts that often meant working for years at extremely low wages... They were like serfs.
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