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Originally Posted by Split
LOL
let's not have a pity pissing contest
fact is, once Europeans found blacks, they became a COMMODITY. not prisoners of war, not the lowest caste of society, just resources. no white people gone thru that
if you're telling me that somehow getting lifted out of your country and placed in a richer one, as a slave, somehow was a sweet deal, youre a retard. Friends. Family, ancestry stripped away.
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lol at "when europeons found blacks"
black people weren't some rare lebron james type people hiding in the jungles of africa, africans were known about forever yo. i mean hell the moors conquered into europe. they werent all black, but alot of their key figures were black. hannibal the fucking great was a black dude who was fucking rome up right in the italian peninsula. black people weren't "found" lol.
but yo
a slave is a slave. whether its white black middle eastern asian whatever. white people get demonised as these evil monsters who enslaved the black people. the reality is white people enslaved black people because they were easy to enslave. those who were living in minor tribes were easily captured like you see depicted in the movie roots. but one of the key things forgotten is most the black people were SOLD into slavery, by black kings and leaders of bigger tribes. a more accurate depiction would be a huge tribe of africans overruning a smaller tribe, tying them up and capturing them, and giving them to the white men for shit like booze and feathers. but thats neither here nor there
the point is every people has enslaved people. every single fucking culture in recorded history has a history of slaves. the greatest civilizations all were built on the backs of slaves, whether its rome egypt china america all of them slaves played an integral part.
basically what im getting at is at this point in time in history, black people are affected by the after effects of there ancestors being enslaved. but white people tend to forget that after the slaves were "freed" everything wasnt just happy and equal. lol. black people didnt even become viewed as equals in society until most of our fathers lifetimes. the 60's and shit.
but slavery was 200+ years ago get over it bros smh