So now we have heard all the excuses about how no one today owned slaves. But what we never seem able to discus is the 100 years after slavery where blacks were denied equal rights ,equal protection under the law, equal access to public accommodations, education, housing and jobs. Many whites here benefitted from things that occurred during this time.
Bring your popcorn. Here comes more lies and excuses.
Have you looked into the benefits gained by the black people who hunted down and enslaved and sold their fellow black people to the white devil?
I must respond to this with part of Edward Ball's book "Slaves in the Family." He actually went to Africa and spoke to descendants of the tribal leaders who sold their fellow black people.
"Why did the chiefs allow people to be sold from here?" he asked. "It was a business everybody was doing. One can't say why a businessman does business," Deen Kanu said.
"If the chief of Maforki wanted to protect his people,' I said, "why would he allow them to be sold? Is that a stupid question?"
"No, not, it's not a stupid question." Then Madame Modu said, "It's an obvious question. They wanted money."
"The things the British gave your families in exchange for slaves," I said, "weren't unusual."
"Not special, no," said Kanu. Rum, guns, tobacco."
"Was it worth it?" I asked. "I wasn't," said Kanu.
"What would you say to black Americans who point out that Africans sold their brothers and sisters?"
"Well, that is the question. We say that it was a long mistake, a long mistake by our ancestors."
"It was evil, actually, to sell your brother," Kanu said.
"When someone does evil in your society, how does he or she compensate for it?"
"You pray for forgiveness to the Almighty, "said Kanu. "When we sit together, we sometimes pray for those things that our ancestors have done, two, three hundred years ago. When you discover this collective responsibility, this evil act which had been committed both by the Africans and the Americans, by your ancestors, what are you to do now to remedy it? We know slavery has been abolished, but the evil has already been committed."
The book goes on to explain a prayer ceremony that was held to pray for forgiveness for both families represented there.