All The Excuses In the World

[IM2]

Here they are, excuses used by racist whites because they cannot deal with the truth.

“Africans sold their own people as slaves” is a stock argument White Americans use when the subject of slavery comes up.

First, simply as an argument of fact it fails:

• Africa was not a country. Africans were not selling “their own”, they were selling their enemies, just as the Greeks and Romans once did. Africa, then as now, was made up of different countries. They were no more selling “their own” than, say, “Europeans” were killing “their own” during the Holocaust.

And it overlooks a few other things:

• Most African countries did not sell slaves and some even fought against it. But because Europeans back then could control the supply of guns there was little Africans could do to stop it.
• The Transatlantic slave trade was on a much greater scale than anything the Africans or anyone else ever did in the history of slavery. Countries were destroyed and millions died. Over 12 million were sold in less than 400 years, something so huge that it changed the genetic map of the world.
• The Transatlantic slave trade was racist. The African slave trade, for all of its other ills, was not that. Neither was the Greek and Roman slave trade. So slavery in places like Haiti, Barbados and America was much more cruel.

As a moral argument it fails too:

• It uses what I call the Arab Trader argument: it excuses an evil of one’s own past by finding the same sort of evil done by others. Whites sold slaves, but Africans and Arab traders did too! Which, morally speaking, is at the same level as an eight-year-old saying, “He did it too!” when caught doing something bad. We do not accept this argument from eight-year-olds, nor from bank robbers or wife beaters. “Africans did it too!” is no better.

But it is as a derailing argument that it comes into its own:
Its main purpose is to draw attention away from what whites did by turning the tables. That part of their past makes White Americans uncomfortable. But instead of facing up to it, they have built up defenses against it:

• Africans sold their own people as slaves.
• Africans are still selling slaves.
• Arab traders sold slaves too.
• Slavery goes back thousands of years.
• All races have practised slavery.
• Whites stopped slavery.
• My family never owned slaves.
• That was Ancient History.
• You are living in the past.
• Get over it!
• It was the times.
• Slavery did not make economic sense.
• Whites got to where they are by their own hard work
• Blacks are better off in America than in Africa
• Africans were savages.

And on and on.
Why not just face up to it? Because part of their sense of self worth is built on being white and how whites are better than everyone else, particularly blacks. But it is a huge lie, a lie that can only be maintained by not looking at their past – and present – squarely and honestly.

Africans sold their own people as slaves” really ?

“Africans sold their own people as slaves” is a stock argument White Americans use when the subject of slavery comes up. First, simply as an argument of fact it fails: Africa was not a country. Afr…

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[Meathead]

Here they are, excuses used by racist whites because they cannot deal with the truth.

“Africans sold their own people as slaves” is a stock argument White Americans use when the subject of slavery comes up.

First, simply as an argument of fact it fails:

• Africa was not a country. Africans were not selling “their own”, they were selling their enemies, just as the Greeks and Romans once did. Africa, then as now, was made up of different countries. They were no more selling “their own” than, say, “Europeans” were killing “their own” during the Holocaust.

And it overlooks a few other things:

• Most African countries did not sell slaves and some even fought against it. But because Europeans back then could control the supply of guns there was little Africans could do to stop it.
• The Transatlantic slave trade was on a much greater scale than anything the Africans or anyone else ever did in the history of slavery. Countries were destroyed and millions died. Over 12 million were sold in less than 400 years, something so huge that it changed the genetic map of the world.
• The Transatlantic slave trade was racist. The African slave trade, for all of its other ills, was not that. Neither was the Greek and Roman slave trade. So slavery in places like Haiti, Barbados and America was much more cruel.

As a moral argument it fails too:

• It uses what I call the Arab Trader argument: it excuses an evil of one’s own past by finding the same sort of evil done by others. Whites sold slaves, but Africans and Arab traders did too! Which, morally speaking, is at the same level as an eight-year-old saying, “He did it too!” when caught doing something bad. We do not accept this argument from eight-year-olds, nor from bank robbers or wife beaters. “Africans did it too!” is no better.

But it is as a derailing argument that it comes into its own:
Its main purpose is to draw attention away from what whites did by turning the tables. That part of their past makes White Americans uncomfortable. But instead of facing up to it, they have built up defenses against it:

• Africans sold their own people as slaves.
• Africans are still selling slaves.
• Arab traders sold slaves too.
• Slavery goes back thousands of years.
• All races have practised slavery.
• Whites stopped slavery.
• My family never owned slaves.
• That was Ancient History.
• You are living in the past.
• Get over it!
• It was the times.
• Slavery did not make economic sense.
• Whites got to where they are by their own hard work
• Blacks are better off in America than in Africa
• Africans were savages.

And on and on.
Why not just face up to it? Because part of their sense of self worth is built on being white and how whites are better than everyone else, particularly blacks. But it is a huge lie, a lie that can only be maintained by not looking at their past – and present – squarely and honestly.

Africans sold their own people as slaves” really ?

“Africans sold their own people as slaves” is a stock argument White Americans use when the subject of slavery comes up. First, simply as an argument of fact it fails: Africa was not a country. Afr…

blackliberationlovenunity.wordpress.com

Oh shut up.

There are real things happening now like Afghanistan and Chicago.

 

[IM2]

There's nothing to disagree with here desperado, face the truth.

 

[Meathead]

There's nothing to disagree with here desperado, face the truth.

No one cares. Hundreds of years have past. You got black thugs killing black thugs in Chicago and a Biden catastrophe in Kabul - now.

As you said:

• Africans sold their own people as slaves.
• Africans are still selling slaves.
• Arab traders sold slaves too.
• Slavery goes back thousands of years.
• All races have practised slavery.
• Whites stopped slavery.
• My family never owned slaves.
• That was Ancient History.
• You are living in the past.
• Get over it!
• It was the times.
• Slavery did not make economic sense.
• Whites got to where they are by their own hard work
• Blacks are better off in America than in Africa
• Africans were savages.

 

[bluzman61]

Here they are, excuses used by racist whites because they cannot deal with the truth.

“Africans sold their own people as slaves” is a stock argument White Americans use when the subject of slavery comes up.

First, simply as an argument of fact it fails:

• Africa was not a country. Africans were not selling “their own”, they were selling their enemies, just as the Greeks and Romans once did. Africa, then as now, was made up of different countries. They were no more selling “their own” than, say, “Europeans” were killing “their own” during the Holocaust.

And it overlooks a few other things:

• Most African countries did not sell slaves and some even fought against it. But because Europeans back then could control the supply of guns there was little Africans could do to stop it.
• The Transatlantic slave trade was on a much greater scale than anything the Africans or anyone else ever did in the history of slavery. Countries were destroyed and millions died. Over 12 million were sold in less than 400 years, something so huge that it changed the genetic map of the world.
• The Transatlantic slave trade was racist. The African slave trade, for all of its other ills, was not that. Neither was the Greek and Roman slave trade. So slavery in places like Haiti, Barbados and America was much more cruel.

As a moral argument it fails too:

• It uses what I call the Arab Trader argument: it excuses an evil of one’s own past by finding the same sort of evil done by others. Whites sold slaves, but Africans and Arab traders did too! Which, morally speaking, is at the same level as an eight-year-old saying, “He did it too!” when caught doing something bad. We do not accept this argument from eight-year-olds, nor from bank robbers or wife beaters. “Africans did it too!” is no better.

But it is as a derailing argument that it comes into its own:
Its main purpose is to draw attention away from what whites did by turning the tables. That part of their past makes White Americans uncomfortable. But instead of facing up to it, they have built up defenses against it:

• Africans sold their own people as slaves.
• Africans are still selling slaves.
• Arab traders sold slaves too.
• Slavery goes back thousands of years.
• All races have practised slavery.
• Whites stopped slavery.
• My family never owned slaves.
• That was Ancient History.
• You are living in the past.
• Get over it!
• It was the times.
• Slavery did not make economic sense.
• Whites got to where they are by their own hard work
• Blacks are better off in America than in Africa
• Africans were savages.

And on and on.
Why not just face up to it? Because part of their sense of self worth is built on being white and how whites are better than everyone else, particularly blacks. But it is a huge lie, a lie that can only be maintained by not looking at their past – and present – squarely and honestly.

Africans sold their own people as slaves” really ?

“Africans sold their own people as slaves” is a stock argument White Americans use when the subject of slavery comes up. First, simply as an argument of fact it fails: Africa was not a country. Afr…

blackliberationlovenunity.wordpress.com

Oh, Brother.................

 

[MarathonMike]

IM2 = I am too = I am too immersed in hatred for White people to care about anything else.

 

[The Irish Ram]

IM2, You hate being black, don't you. You're jealous.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

OP makes me glad that my black friends are capable of higher critical thinking.

 

[Oddball]

Here they are, excuses used by racist whites because they cannot deal with the truth.

“Africans sold their own people as slaves” is a stock argument White Americans use when the subject of slavery comes up.

First, simply as an argument of fact it fails:

• Africa was not a country. Africans were not selling “their own”, they were selling their enemies, just as the Greeks and Romans once did. Africa, then as now, was made up of different countries. They were no more selling “their own” than, say, “Europeans” were killing “their own” during the Holocaust.

And it overlooks a few other things:

• Most African countries did not sell slaves and some even fought against it. But because Europeans back then could control the supply of guns there was little Africans could do to stop it.
• The Transatlantic slave trade was on a much greater scale than anything the Africans or anyone else ever did in the history of slavery. Countries were destroyed and millions died. Over 12 million were sold in less than 400 years, something so huge that it changed the genetic map of the world.
• The Transatlantic slave trade was racist. The African slave trade, for all of its other ills, was not that. Neither was the Greek and Roman slave trade. So slavery in places like Haiti, Barbados and America was much more cruel.

As a moral argument it fails too:

• It uses what I call the Arab Trader argument: it excuses an evil of one’s own past by finding the same sort of evil done by others. Whites sold slaves, but Africans and Arab traders did too! Which, morally speaking, is at the same level as an eight-year-old saying, “He did it too!” when caught doing something bad. We do not accept this argument from eight-year-olds, nor from bank robbers or wife beaters. “Africans did it too!” is no better.

But it is as a derailing argument that it comes into its own:
Its main purpose is to draw attention away from what whites did by turning the tables. That part of their past makes White Americans uncomfortable. But instead of facing up to it, they have built up defenses against it:

• Africans sold their own people as slaves.
• Africans are still selling slaves.
• Arab traders sold slaves too.
• Slavery goes back thousands of years.
• All races have practised slavery.
• Whites stopped slavery.
• My family never owned slaves.
• That was Ancient History.
• You are living in the past.
• Get over it!
• It was the times.
• Slavery did not make economic sense.
• Whites got to where they are by their own hard work
• Blacks are better off in America than in Africa
• Africans were savages.

And on and on.
Why not just face up to it? Because part of their sense of self worth is built on being white and how whites are better than everyone else, particularly blacks. But it is a huge lie, a lie that can only be maintained by not looking at their past – and present – squarely and honestly.

Africans sold their own people as slaves” really ?

“Africans sold their own people as slaves” is a stock argument White Americans use when the subject of slavery comes up. First, simply as an argument of fact it fails: Africa was not a country. Afr…

blackliberationlovenunity.wordpress.com

 

[RodISHI]

Hell they still sell people into slavery even their own.

West African slavery lives on, 400 years after transatlantic trade began

Blessing was only six years old when her mother arranged for her to become an unpaid housemaid for a family in the Nigerian city of Abuja, on the promise they would put her through school.

www.reuters.com

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

IM2, You hate being black, don't you. You're jealous.

If I were a white man.....

 

[IM2]

IM2 = I am too = I am too immersed in hatred for White people to care about anything else.

Stop crying. As much racist hate black shit you and the other racist whites post in here, you don't have squat to say about what you get back.

 

[IM2]

OP makes me glad that my black friends are capable of higher critical thinking.

If they are your friends and you think they see race like you do, then they are not capable of higher critical thinking.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

If they are your friends and you think they see race like you do, then they are not capable of higher critical thinking.

What? How do I "see race"?

Beam me the fuck up, Scotty. There is no intelligent life here.

 

[IM2]

What? How do I "see race"?

You know how you see race. I don't have to explain it to you.

“In my view, racial gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse really because it makes the minority groups doubt their own instincts, and they become disenfranchised by continually feeling like an outsider. When you’ve been discriminated against throughout your entire life, you can recognize it in an instant, it’s like a sixth sense. So, when people turn around and ask you to prove your reality, it’s truly maddening.” — Dr. Pragya Agarwal

 

[alang1216]

“Africans sold their own people as slaves” is a stock argument White Americans use when the subject of slavery comes up.

I'd bet that if no one bought slaves there would have been no slavery. It is the buyers that create the market, not unlike illegal drug users. If there is a demand, it will be satisfied, one way or another, and that is where the blame resides.

 

[MarathonMike]

Stop crying. As much racist hate black shit you and the other racist whites post in here, you don't have squat to say about what you get back.

SAY HER NAME: SERENITY BROUGHTON!!!

 

[Jimmy_Chitwood]

You sir are whiney.

 

[asaratis]

IM2, You hate being black, don't you. You're jealous.

Michael Jackson hated it, too.

Where else but in America can a poor black boy grow up to be a rich white woman?

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

You know how you see race. I don't have to explain it to you.

“In my view, racial gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse really because it makes the minority groups doubt their own instincts, and they become disenfranchised by continually feeling like an outsider. When you’ve been discriminated against throughout your entire life, you can recognize it in an instant, it’s like a sixth sense. So, when people turn around and ask you to prove your reality, it’s truly maddening.” — Dr. Pragya Agarwal

Ahhhhhhhhh.....................

We got "one of those". Isn't this fun, folks??