dilloduck
Diamond Member
Mariner said:Can't you imagine that if your grandparents were someone else's property, you might have a desire to identify yourself with the continent they were shipped from, and might be leery of adopting the slaveowners' religion? The slaves' indigenous religions, kin relationships, and culture were all wiped out by the "superior" cultural-absolutist Christians who imported them. It's pretty easy for me to see why Kwanzaa was created.
Did you know that a major impetus to the abolitionist movement was the "barbaric" Barbary pirates? These Arabs routinely captured and enslaved white people who passed by their north African coast. The intense account by the captain of one captured vessel of the horrors of being enslaved prompted many Americans to rethink the rightness of slavery--after all, if brown people could enslave white people, then dark skin couldn't be seen as inherently inferior.
All sorts of holidays and religions have been invented in America, from Thanksgiving to Mormonism. What's the problem?
Mariner.
Let's not forget the BLACK tribes who sold their enemies to the Arab slave traders. Pity for the ancestors of slaves is a joke. They have it better than any black people in the world.