We denounce and totally reject those claims that Africans are as guilty and complicit as those who masterminded this whole atrocity," he says.
They were buying and selling slaves before Europeans came along, and they were selling slaves after Europeans had ended slavery.
The supply of slaves to the Gold Coast was entirely in African hands. Most rulers, such as the kings of various Akan states engaged in the slave trade, as well as individual local merchants.[43]
If you want to be pedantic, the euro slavers upped the demand. Yes, local populations had slaves, they did not do it to the level that the white slavers did.
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney should be required reading for every Westerner. I hear this argument so often that it clearly points to a lack of education on the matter.
This is the morally repugnant and despicable (yet malevolently “clever”) nature of colonialism - it intentionally used beaureaucracy and macro economics to make its victims appear as if they consented to their own dehumanization and exploitation.
European colonists actively undermined African textile and iron smelting industries.
They intentionally created the conditions where slave raiding and military expansion became necessary for economic success.
Therefore, for centuries, the productive minds and bodies of young Africans were sold into servitude, removing any potential for innovation or development. For centuries.
The spoils of which went where? To Europeans and their descendants. A global imbalance that persists even to this day.
To turn around and say: Well, you brought this upon yourself is so morally tone deaf it brings to question whether humankind is even capable of humanity given the scale of the crime that was committed.
I urge everyone to please read outside of your niche interests and learn more about the world so that this type of misinformation doesn’t continue to disseminate.
I don’t care where you’re from, you were raised on some type of propaganda one way another. The only way out of the box is to read, expose yourself to and listen to the perspective of others. Otherwise your worldview will always be what it must not be - incomplete.
They were buying and selling slaves before Europeans came along, and they were selling slaves after Europeans had ended slavery.
Inconvenient truths eh.
If you want to be pedantic, the euro slavers upped the demand. Yes, local populations had slaves, they did not do it to the level that the white slavers did.
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney should be required reading for every Westerner. I hear this argument so often that it clearly points to a lack of education on the matter.
This is the morally repugnant and despicable (yet malevolently “clever”) nature of colonialism - it intentionally used beaureaucracy and macro economics to make its victims appear as if they consented to their own dehumanization and exploitation.
European colonists actively undermined African textile and iron smelting industries.
They intentionally created the conditions where slave raiding and military expansion became necessary for economic success.
Therefore, for centuries, the productive minds and bodies of young Africans were sold into servitude, removing any potential for innovation or development. For centuries.
The spoils of which went where? To Europeans and their descendants. A global imbalance that persists even to this day.
To turn around and say: Well, you brought this upon yourself is so morally tone deaf it brings to question whether humankind is even capable of humanity given the scale of the crime that was committed.
I urge everyone to please read outside of your niche interests and learn more about the world so that this type of misinformation doesn’t continue to disseminate.
I don’t care where you’re from, you were raised on some type of propaganda one way another. The only way out of the box is to read, expose yourself to and listen to the perspective of others. Otherwise your worldview will always be what it must not be - incomplete.
Wow. You are really annoying.
The feeling is mutual
Okay Mr. I have a complete worldview.
Miss me with the AI generated replies thanks.
Inconvenient truths eh.