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Systemic racism in the USA: Are whites "guiltier" if they had slavery in their past?
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<blockquote data-quote="ImaginaryFiction" data-source="post: 77681388" data-attributes="member: 450917"><p>Well for one, everyone has been a slave to someone else at some point. This notion slavery only involves white people in America is ridiculous. </p><p></p><p>In Barbary the blacks owned more white slaves than America ever owned of black slaves </p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/white_slaves_01.shtml#:~:text=White%20slaves%20in%20Barbary%20were%20generally%20from%20impoverished%20families%2C%20and,starvation%2C%20disease%2C%20or%20maltreatment.[/URL]</p><p></p><p>What about native Americans that owned slaves?</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-native-american-slaveholders-complicate-trail-tears-narrative-180968339/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>We all know Jews were slaves.</p><p></p><p>What about the blacks in America that enslaved blacks?</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://cthl.org/americana/blacks-owning-blacks-the-story-of-william-ellison/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>And of course who sold black slaves? Other blacks that enslaved their own people to sell.</p><p></p><p>But at the end of the day it doesn't matter to you or me, we didn't own any slaves. Why should we be held accountable for something that happened a 100 years before we were born?</p><p></p><p>Let's say I found out I had an ancestor that was a Nazi child murder and rapist, killed animals and raped women. Ok, that has nothing to do with who I am as a person now. I don't do those things, I pay my taxes, work hard, love my wife and try to be a decent person. </p><p></p><p>So no one alive today in America has ever been a slave, and no one alive today has ever owned a slave.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ImaginaryFiction, post: 77681388, member: 450917"] Well for one, everyone has been a slave to someone else at some point. This notion slavery only involves white people in America is ridiculous. In Barbary the blacks owned more white slaves than America ever owned of black slaves [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/white_slaves_01.shtml#:~:text=White%20slaves%20in%20Barbary%20were%20generally%20from%20impoverished%20families%2C%20and,starvation%2C%20disease%2C%20or%20maltreatment.[/URL] What about native Americans that owned slaves? [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-native-american-slaveholders-complicate-trail-tears-narrative-180968339/[/URL] We all know Jews were slaves. What about the blacks in America that enslaved blacks? [URL unfurl="true"]https://cthl.org/americana/blacks-owning-blacks-the-story-of-william-ellison/[/URL] And of course who sold black slaves? Other blacks that enslaved their own people to sell. But at the end of the day it doesn't matter to you or me, we didn't own any slaves. Why should we be held accountable for something that happened a 100 years before we were born? Let's say I found out I had an ancestor that was a Nazi child murder and rapist, killed animals and raped women. Ok, that has nothing to do with who I am as a person now. I don't do those things, I pay my taxes, work hard, love my wife and try to be a decent person. So no one alive today in America has ever been a slave, and no one alive today has ever owned a slave. [/QUOTE]
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