" Your name is Toby! What is your name?" They are going to make him say toby!!
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From the ADL website regarding Kyrie's remarks on slavery:
"... allegations that Jews are in part responsible for the transatlantic slave trade"
From Wikipedia's page on the Atlantic Slave trade regarding the "Asiento de Negros" ("a monopoly contract between the Spanish Crown and various merchants for the right to provide African slaves to colonies in the Spanish Americas."):
"Most Portuguese contractors who obtained the asiento between 1580 and 1640 were conversos."
Sounds like Jews were in part responsible, as were European whites and even Africans.
"We didn't say it's not true. We said you can't say it!"
All Jews who did not convert were expelled in 1493, and many had converted in the century before. So they were at best third generation converts to Christianity. It would be incorrect to state that they were religious Jews (though they had as few scruples about engaging in slave trade as Christians did), but ethnically those conversos would be in part Jewish.