I know it shouldn’t but it boggles my mind how with all the hand wringing in the west over slavery that ended long ago nobody holds African nations accountable for ongoing slavery or past slavery. In one of Sowell’s books he talked about how the British worked very hard to end slavery in Africa and some kings or tribal leaders said they will meet all their demands but they will keep their slaves
History books have been trying to assign the blame to slavery to America almost exclusively for decades, for alot of reasons.
Almost twenty million africans were taken out of Africa as slaves(but only 3 to 6 % of them went to North America.)
Try researching about slavery in Central and South America and you'll find almost nothing(despite lasting alot longer, starting in the 1600s). Talk about the Arabic slave trade, and maybe you'll find more.
There's also the awkward question of 'Well, where did the slaves go, then?' The answer being, they basically worked them all to death(or gelded them and then worked them to death), which leads to the other awkward question of 'Wait, why does North America still have slave descendants around, then?'
Well, because, guess what - while still slavery, Southern slave owners treated their slaves alot nicer than others. Let them breed, let them have families, grow and sell their own crops, allowed for manumission...
But we can't have that discussion, can we? Gotta sell that propaganda...
Asians left alone: Create black powder, amass huge civilizations and cultural wonders
Whites left alone: create amazing inventions, philosophies, empires and cultural works
Arabs left alone: advance medical and mathematics, create many cultural works
Blacks left alone: start enslaving each other and selling them off to Arabs and whites for their stuff
Even the natives to South America with all their human sacrifice did better...
I know it shouldn’t but it boggles my mind how with all the hand wringing in the west over slavery that ended long ago nobody holds African nations accountable for ongoing slavery or past slavery. In one of Sowell’s books he talked about how the British worked very hard to end slavery in Africa and some kings or tribal leaders said they will meet all their demands but they will keep their slaves
History books have been trying to assign the blame to slavery to America almost exclusively for decades, for alot of reasons.
Almost twenty million africans were taken out of Africa as slaves(but only 3 to 6 % of them went to North America.)
Try researching about slavery in Central and South America and you'll find almost nothing(despite lasting alot longer, starting in the 1600s). Talk about the Arabic slave trade, and maybe you'll find more.
There's also the awkward question of 'Well, where did the slaves go, then?' The answer being, they basically worked them all to death(or gelded them and then worked them to death), which leads to the other awkward question of 'Wait, why does North America still have slave descendants around, then?'
Well, because, guess what - while still slavery, Southern slave owners treated their slaves alot nicer than others. Let them breed, let them have families, grow and sell their own crops, allowed for manumission...
But we can't have that discussion, can we? Gotta sell that propaganda...
Exactly. I’ve joked that they need to have a mandatory “world history of slavery class” where they just watch some Sowell videos about it.