I love white girls.

[Rasterburn]

Originally Posted by Taxi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So what youre trying to say is that the only people responsible for the slave trade are the africans?

Facts:

African chiefs were capturing and enslaving other blacks from rival tribes for centuries before white people ever set foot upon their shores.

The slave trade in Africa worked more or less like this: white traders arrived along the west coast of Africa and traded textiles, rum and other such goods for human slaves. In the vast majority of cases, those slaves were NOT captured by white people... they were captured by other blacks. And then sold, for a profit. If they had not been sold, they STILL would have been slaves. But instead of picking cotton in the Americas, they would have been tending goats and doing hard labor in Africa instead.

The image of Kunta Kinte being chased down by evil white men in "Roots" was good for ratings, back when that mini-series was made. But it is far from being historically accurate. Blacks in Africa began the slave trade on that continent and they also profited from it.

None of this is meant to marginalize the involvement of white slavers. I am simply pointing out that to toss all or even most of the blame for black slavery upon whites is simply not congruent with the actual facts.

[Harrison]

Originally Posted by Rasterburn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Facts:

African chiefs were capturing and enslaving other blacks from rival tribes for centuries before white people ever set foot upon their shores.

The slave trade in Africa worked more or less like this: white traders arrived along the west coast of Africa and traded textiles, rum and other such goods for human slaves. In the vast majority of cases, those slaves were NOT captured by white people... they were captured by other blacks. And then sold, for a profit. If they had not been sold, they STILL would have been slaves. But instead of picking cotton in the Americas, they would have been tending goats and doing hard labor in Africa instead.

The image of Kunta Kinte being chased down by evil white men in "Roots" was good for ratings, back when that mini-series was made. But it is far from being historically accurate. Blacks in Africa began the slave trade on that continent and they also profited from it.

None of this is meant to marginalize the involvement of white slavers. I am simply pointing out that to toss all or even most of the blame for black slavery upon whites is simply not congruent with the actual facts.

I bolded this so the retards wouldn't skip over it in their frothing rageposting against "The Man(tm)"!

[Hasbinbad]

Originally Posted by Rasterburn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Facts:

[Lots of things meant to marginalize the involvement of white slavers]

None of this is meant to marginalize the involvement of white slavers. I am simply trying to justify the American enslavement of Africans.

fix'd

[Bubbles]

lol @ you guys being such aggressively delusional trolls that instead of jumping at the chance to post pictures of hot women, you spend pages arguing the semantics of slavery's muddled and ugly history.

do *any* of you get out of the house much? I'm seriously starting to worry. I usually don't play the "out of the house" card either, but it's especially valid here.

[Rasterburn]

Originally Posted by Bubbles [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

do *any* of you get out of the house much?

...asks the guy with 350 posts on a minor EQ-related forum board. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]