Black Slave Owners

Originally posted by Lestov16
The thing about the enslavement of blacks vs the enslavement of other races is the level of dehumanization. Unlike other ethnicities, blacks were COMPLETELY stripped of their African cultural heritage.

And as far as African nations owning slaves, all those countries were tribal. The European nations that enslaved blacks were much more culturally and technologically developed and thus used their superior intelligence not to help but to exploit the less intelligent Africans. This horrific exploitation is the source of disproportionate anger towards whites compared to other slavery-practicing nations.

oh my god. just look up the barbary slave trade that only occurred a hundred years earlier. blacks sold 1.5 million people. the women were exclusively used as sex slaves. this is every bit as bad. do you think those white europeans kept their heritage etc.

I think the issue is moreso that slavery is used as a catch all term for the state sponsored oppression of Africans domestically (U.S.) and abroad. It's not simply the ownership and sale of individuals (which Africans also took part in), it's the subsequent social institutions of Jim Crow and Apartheid which were resultant of Trans Atlantic Slave Trade. The term gets simplified to human trafficking and ownership on one side and gets a false equivalency/equivocation of the term on the other.

Primarily, though, when people are talking about the ills of American Slavery and it's legacy they're talking about state sponsored segregation, unequal laws based in race, and racial oppression, which is beyond the definition of simple slavery. For example, my parents had to drink from "For Coloreds Only" drinking fountains in their childhood in the 50's.

Originally posted by Robtard
Oh boy

Originally posted by krisblaze
Being completely stripped of one's cultural heritage is not a trait exclusive to the America when it comes to the trans atlantic slavery. Worse than Viking slavery or Aztec slavery, but I doubt the slaves kept in Britain were seeing far better treatment than the American ones, culturally or...physically.

Basically the moral of the story is: everyone is equally shitty and everyone has blood on their hands from one time or another.

What's wrong with owning slaves if the majority of society accepts it?

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
What's wrong with owning slaves if the majority of society accepts it?

This almost sounds like excusing someone for racism because hey everyone at the time was racist.

bump

Please talk to a Romanian about slavery before pretending that slavery was exclusive to one race.

Yep, more or less every race in history has had a portion of it enslaved at one time or another and yep..the truth of the matter is a decent chunk of these slaves were treated far far worse then the slaves were in America.

Black slavers was briefly touched upon in django unchained Tarantino style.

The way Jamie fox portrayed the black slaver seemed like the lowest of the low. I know, he was an actor playing a character pretending to be another character for dramatic effect, but after reading the article, watching a crash course on slavery and rewatching django unchained, it makes me think how bad black people really had it to try and integrate in a white society that they stole from the native Americans just to make a buck or improve their own lives.

If only William Ellis Jr. Was a schindler.

white people in America during the 1800's may have owned black slaves but the majority of those slaves were sold and traded to white Europeans from African tribe leaders.

I think in the 1800's the world was just chalk full of terrible people.

I think in general the world is chalk full of terrible people.

But we don't have history books telling us how bad Friedman was.

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx
white people in America during the 1800's may have owned black slaves but the majority of those slaves were sold and traded to white Europeans from African tribe leaders.

But...but...da white man is da only one to eva hab slaves!

Lol
Truth is blacks are more likely to be a descendant of a slave owner than a white person.
Guess who supplied us with slaves? Blacks. Guess who still practices it? Blacks.

Guess who ended it? Whites.

Originally posted by Mindset
And?

Originally posted by Peace Keeper
Its not that fact is taught in schools...and is absolutely not portrayed in the media.
If you were to base your idea of slavery on how its narrated by liberals itd be something like ""The evil white man, bent on conquest and blood lust, launched a full assault on the highly advanced african civilization, killing and raping his natural demonic way through the peaceful africans......who were nearing a cure for cancer. The satanic white man then enslaved africans for hundreds of years until the beautiful nubians revolted, defeating the blue eyed spawns of satan and attained their freedom."

Originally posted by ArtificialGlory
I think you're mistaking what Black Supremacists/Separatists say for what liberals say.