I want you to google the Barbary slave trade.

But the Mediterranean did have it:

Really? There was no slavery in the Mediterranean? No Hebrews enslaved by the Egyptians, no conquered peoples enslaved by the Greeks and Romans?

Let me introduce you the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. They had slaves like motherfuckers, and don’t give a shit about your preconceived notions that there wasn’t slavery in the Mediterranean.

The Arab slave trade was especially brutal because they would cut off the slaves nuts so they would never have children in the land they were taken to. Didnt happen all the time but was a much more common practice.

First, I work overnight and dont read the news throughout the week. my first “day” off starts tonight, so I’m catching up a bit before sleep. what happened sunday? I haven’t seen anything yet.

Second, and this is a personal answer for myself. This site exists as a space for black people to speak about whatever they…

As i explained in other part of the thread, I am not defending slavery. The article stated that africans “could not imagine that any civilized human being could possibly believe he owned another human being.”

I was pointing out that they, in fact, did imagine this. They had a system set up for doing this. Europeans…

Thats just it, I dont understand the frustration. I didn’t come in here and scream that AFRICANS DID IT FIRST SO THAT MADE IT OKAY SO STOP HOLDING ONTO THE PAST BLARGLGLGLGLG!!!!

I was simply pointing out that Africans DID imagine people being owned by other people, and that the europeans took advantage of the system…

Originally just a guy trying to point out a part of the article that was at best a sugar coating of the truth and at worst a straight up purposeful re-imagining of history. Kinda like when russians will tell you all about the horrible stuff the nazi’s did to them, but straight up deny the horrible shit they did to…

Taking advantage of a system in place doesnt mean you leave that system untouched. Yes, European slavery and african slavery were different. But the europeans didn’t create a whole new system to acquire the slaves. They paid the africans to do what they already did (grab war prisoners, raid other villages, etc etc)…

Well, considering this article is about white folks, you know like damn near every article Michael Harriot writes. That man dreams in Whypipo Technicolor.

Again I feel like a lot of this interpretation is simply looking for a message you wish to be found.

Ugh... I hate to think I might be defending someone defending the slave trade but... I don’t think that’s what this person was trying to say, at all?

Soo...yea...not true. I hate the idea of slavery on multiple levels, but this is a straight up lie. When Europeans landed in Africa, they pretty much took advantage of a system that was already in place. Yes, we cranked it to 11 with little regard for anything but profit and efficiency as we are wont to do, but we…

Always that one douche that has to bring trump and politics into it. Umpire blows for doing that to him. But for everyone’s sake you should be ejected from life

Are you implying that stealthing is a black or white issue? Please explain in detail and provide supporting evidence.

Again, atheists take the logical stand that there is no god until you can prove there is one. That’s logic. There is no evidence of it’s existence, so until then, there is no god.

Pilots are supposed to keep their cool and get the plane safely in. Please tell me how making people panic because hes asking them to pray to their makers helps anything?

Agnosticism and atheism aren’t mutually exclusive, you can in fact be both an agnostic and an atheist

Eh. Lots of atheists back down and call themselves agnostics for the sake of having a reasonable conversation with evangelists and believer zealots who wouldn’t give us the time of day otherwise. That’s all it is. Being open to presentation of opposing evidence if it exists doesn’t make one an agnostic. It just…