Confronting Racism

[BmorePat87]

(02-12-2016, 08:36 AM)Sovereign Nation Wrote: You are reaching here.

Blacks don't want reparations from the US, they want it from the White US.  If blacks were the majority leaders in the US, they wouldn't want reparations.

Alright, buddy, I gave you two chances to actually address my post but you want to double down on this, so here we go.

This first part was fine. You actually addressed what I said. I am going to suggest that my logic that you can't ask nations for reparations if they were established hundreds of years after the action you want reparations for occurred makes more sense than you saying "they only want reparations from white people".

Here's where it get's interesting

Quote:So are you denying that the slaves were not bought and paid for?

  I didn't even suggest something remotely close to that

Quote:You really think that white men were hanging around with nets, ready to grab unsuspecting blacks?

 Where the hell did you read that?
 

Quote:Europeans had slaves, the slaves they had were white, I don't think anyone denies that slavery has been a part of European history.  

Ok, that has nothing to do with a discussion of the involvement of Africans in the Atlantic Slave Trade.

Quote:However, slavery wasn't invented by whites.

Again, what does this have to do with my post?

Quote: The pyramids in Egypt weren't created by volunteers, nor where they paid workers either.

Again, huh?

Quote:  Slavery is a part of every races history.

So is war. But that doesn't mean you should bring that up when discussing one specific war.

 

Quote: Your analogy doesn't fit, since it implies that the African tribes and kingdoms were forced into providing slaves, and that they weren't just looking for a way to sell their own people to make a quick fortune.

In many cases, they were forced into supplying slaves. Even in the cases that they were not, that doesn't take away from my analogy that the African tribes that participated held far less power in this whole industry that was created. Your attempts to suggest they are equal partners is rejected.



Please go back and look at all the garbage I quoted from your post. This is why I suggested you go back and reread my post. A whole lot of strawman in there. Some of it is just asinine.