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Why is our government spending tax payers’ money on this nonsense. Perhaps they should seek reparations also from the people who sold them into slavery. Then again, it’s much more convenient to blame all their ills on whitey.
The middlemen were European slave traders based in forts like Ghana's Cape Coast Castle, now a tourist attraction and a somber reminder of a brutal crime against humanity.
That crime is usually blamed entirely on the European outsiders who inflicted slavery on African victims. But new research by some African scholars supports a different view - - that Africans should share the blame for slavery.
"It was the Africans themselves who were enslaving their fellow Africans, sending them to the coast to be shipped outside," says researcher Akosua Perbi of the University of Ghana. (88K AIFF sound file or 88K WAV sound)
CNN - Evidence of Africans' part in slavery - Oct. 20, 1995
The root cause of the problems blacks face is white racism. And since that racism extends beyond slavery whites will be held accountable.
When you study the African role in slavery, the situation implicates whites even more.