Why do people think the slave trade was racist and whites are to blame?

Question

Back in teh good'ol days, when 'lesser being' slaves worked the fields and masters oddly enough interbred with slave servants, we must not forget the equal opportunity of slave ownership. The slave trade at the time embraced equal opportunity for ownership of human property. White Slave owners gladly did business with Black Slave owners, who were happy to export their product overseas for use as laborers and servants, and to become family through procreation. Throughout all of history, we can read of whites being slaves all around the world, especially in the middle east, where white women were exported for use as sexy sex slaves. The world embraced cheep and free labor to build powerful national infrastructure, such as in Egypt, where Jews were imported for mass labor and compensated with Tax benefits for their craftsmanship and skill that so pleased the elite and common folks alike at the time.

Answer 1

Africans STILL sell their fellow Africans for slaves...NOW!

Answer 2

Im sorry, but my mind just rebelled at your statement about slaves "becoming family through procreation," and I could only wonder what substance you are using that causes your mind to work this way and to believe such arrant nonsense. Simply because interbreeding was taking place doesn't mean that the offspring were considered as equals and like real family members. There is no question that slavery is older than the Bible and that people of all races and creeds have been enslaved by some group or other. Heck, the Janissaries and the Mamluks were high status slaves and could wield great power. However, in the US, black slavery was accompanied by racism, the effects of which lasted more than a hundred years after slavery nominally ended in this country. It is that persistent racism, coupled with a lack of awareness of history that causes people to be unaware of the role of others in the slave trade. And simply because there were free blacks who also had slaves too doesn't change anything. Blacks couldn't vote and couldn't testify in court.



But DO libertarians support slavery? If that's the case then that's a pretty corrupt political philosophy....

Answer 3

Because the communist Board of Education decides what is put in the school books, they promote white guilt and racial collectivism, that is why American society is so ****** up. Im black but by no means am I an "African-American" my ancestors were indentured servants in the West Indies and they immigrated to the States in the early 20th century. Slavery is used as an excuse for the way most black people act(obviously not all) we need to learn that we weren't the only race that has been wronged throughout the years and think about the future.

Answer 4

Because the liberals write the history books.

There is a lot they leave out.



Black Africans were wholesaling them to the Arabs who were selling slaves around the world.

Answer 5

Of course it was racist. But anyone who thinks whites are to blame is just flat out ignorant of history. There were plenty of black slave traders. Don't take my word for it. Look it up.

Answer 6

It is what is taught in our schools. Even the triangle was entirely run by white europeans.

Answer 7

For starters there's zero evidence the Jews were ever even in Egypt.



Of course there's nothing racist about treating a race of people as property for centuries either, right? Or did you forget that part?

Answer 8

You say that now, but if you had chains on you, were whipped all the time, and forced to work, sleep and die in the field, you would have another opinion.



I'll bet you are a Republican.

Answer 9

Maybe they should have been sent back to Africa