pappadeux wrote:
So what does that have to do with "black Violence" in America? We would not have "Black Violence" had we as a new nation not allowed slavery. More so since we proclaimed freedom for all in 1776. For that one lie and mistake we are paying dearly for.
There was slavery in Africa for a thousand years before the first white European ever set foot there.
Europeans did not enslave Africans. Almost every single slave who arrived in what became the US was ALREADY a slave, made so by other blacks. This was an accepted practice, a result of the constant internecine tribal warfare that went on in sub-Saharan Africa.
White Europeans bought slaves from black Africans, and transported them to this country, where they were bought once more. Slavery, at the time, was an accepted practice all over the entire world, not just in the US. It was practiced, worldwide, in every country at one time or another.
You are probably unaware that from 1400 AD to 1800 AD, nearly 1.25 million white Europeans were kidnapped and enslaved by Muslims, many of whom were black, and at the time of the American civil war, there were several hundred thousand white slaves in Africa and the middle East.
You claim there would be no black violence if there had been no slavery. Canada has never had slavery, yet blacks in Canada commit about half the violent crime, in a country where they represent barely 3% of the population. This is how they repay Canadian generosity in giving sanctuary to escaped slaves. Their descendents murder their liberators.
Slavery was abolished in the US in 1865. It was abolished officially in Africa, (although it is still practiced unofficially ), in I believe it was 2005. So blacks commit violence all out of proportion to their numbers because of something that ended 150 years ago?
You might be interested to know that the very first officially recognized slave owner in North America was a black man who owned another black man outright, and whose ownership was recognized by the courts of what was then the colony of Virginia.
The 1830 US census listed 1,276 blacks as slave owners. About half "owned" one or two family members to protect them. The other half bought and sold their black brothers and sisters just like white slave owners did. There were a number of black slave owners who owned more than 50 slaves, and a few who owned more than 100.
By the way,my source for this information is MSNBC. I doubt you could call them "right wing."