01-29-2018, 11:43 AM
(01-29-2018, 11:24 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: No, that's like saying the German killed their own people when they fought the Russians in WWI.
The fact that Europeans made up this concept that we are divided into races based solely on our skin color doesn't mean the rest of the world saw things so black and white (pardon the pun).
(01-29-2018, 11:39 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: The issue with this is that those tribes that did participate weren't selling their own "citizens". Slaves were from rival tribes.
Fred's example doesn't work because he's referring to countrymen killing each other but Africans were selling people from OTHER tribes. A better example is the systematic destruction of Native American tribes by the United States. Unfortunately, this example isn't a good one to use in this thread because Lucie says that it's a good thing because the US ended up being an awesome country and the Native Americans would have never have been that awesome.
Borders are irrelevant unless drawn by white western colonial powers.
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