The guy in chains... who put him there? Other Africans. Since you and Jeremiah are clearly ignorant of history, the vast majority of slaves were prisoners of war, captured by other blacks.
(Bypassing the obvious intention here that, since whites were not the original enslavers and merely perpetuated it, they were somehow less or even not respponsible for it...)
"Other blacks" didn't cart them across the ocean to the Americas, homey.
Your chances of escape, repatriation or even eventual agreeable assimilation are also drastically curtailed when you're a dramatically and obviously different colour, religion, language, and culture from those around you and said ocean separates you and your homelan
While our Islamic or Zoroastrian (and Christian / Jew hating) friend Jeremiah would like us the believe different, the reason Western Culture has grown to such lofty socio-economic stature is quite simply Christianity - which as you well know, condemns both slavery and racism. Which, as you know, Islam doesn't.
Christianity existed for almost two thousand years before it condemned slavery. Before the 18th century nobody condemned slavery. Well, except slaves and a few wierdos (defining "wierdo" as someone di
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V ybir lbh!
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You're useful. You're the classroom example. CLASS! This is a racist. Study carefully as he tries to tell us that black people enjoyed slavery.
Worth a thousand words (Score:2)
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The guy in chains... who put him there? Other Africans. Since you and Jeremiah are clearly ignorant of history, the vast majority of slaves were prisoners of war, captured by other blacks.
(Bypassing the obvious intention here that, since whites were not the original enslavers and merely perpetuated it, they were somehow less or even not respponsible for it...)
"Other blacks" didn't cart them across the ocean to the Americas, homey.
Your chances of escape, repatriation or even eventual agreeable assimilation are also drastically curtailed when you're a dramatically and obviously different colour, religion, language, and culture from those around you and said ocean separates you and your homelan
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While our Islamic or Zoroastrian (and Christian / Jew hating) friend Jeremiah would like us the believe different, the reason Western Culture has grown to such lofty socio-economic stature is quite simply Christianity - which as you well know, condemns both slavery and racism. Which, as you know, Islam doesn't.
Christianity existed for almost two thousand years before it condemned slavery. Before the 18th century nobody condemned slavery. Well, except slaves and a few wierdos (defining "wierdo" as someone di
Modern Sisyphus (Score:2)
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