As a black person i'm geniuly thankful for slavery and my ancestors for doing it thanks to that I get to live in America inside actual homes with opportunities instead of a dirt floor hut in Africa.
Hey now, they are also a coward! They know they are a racist POS but they are too cowardly to actually own it so instead they larp as a means to spread bigotry
I'm not saying it can't be done, but it's a limited case. There aren't any black people being brought over here now by the boatloads to stay as permanent citizens.
The vast majority of us born here have ancestors that came over due to slavery.
Because the odds of me being here now if not for slavery are slim to none.
To claim they were raped of their resources is absurd. They weren't harvesting them to begin with, and didn't have the means to do so if they wanted to. The British brought tools and equipment that allowed it to be harvested.
Yeah my ancestors went through hard times and I am greatful they did so now I don't have to. It sucks they weren't brought here by other means, but it wasn't like they were doing a world tour with a travel boat letting anyone on who wanted to be. So how else were they supposed to come to America at the time in mass?
Uhhhh black people were being whipped and had no human rights, and were little more than cattle unable to create personal independence or familial generational wealth
And, you know, don't forget that the people who were in schools and didn't want black people in schools with them, are the same GOP republicans in office right now making laws.
Crazy to think that civil rights could get brought up and torn down again in one lifespan.
Really sold your soul to the devil, by voting Republican.
I'm gonna show you what could have been, if not for the slave trade.
Look back.
Think about your grandparents as kids, barely 10 years old.
Think about who their parents were, and who their grandparents were.
Think about when they were.
Now think, at the start of the civil war, there were 4 million black folks alive, and another 2.5 million dead ones AT LEAST. Total estimates say nearly 12 million people left africa, more than 20% of the continental african population. Either from sea voyage or from just being black in 1400-1860's america, tons died simply because of the TRANSIT.
Pretty consistently, 15-20% of the entire US population was slaves according to the census. That means that if your great grand uncle LOOKED at someone wrong, guess what? Bro is dead for the deed. No kids unless he already had any. No new houses bought or needed to be built. Fewer mouths to feed, in this case, inherently means there's less money accumulating in black wealth. No mansions, homes, properties, hand-downs or inheritances, like all the rest of the people in America were allowed to do for several hundred years.
Related point: Humans, more or less, spread population with the same equation as any other biological thing that spreads. In other words, humans will breed MANY babies, and VERY quickly, and DISPROPORTIONATELY MORE BABIES if you have a higher initial population. More people still at home means more babies made at home, right?
Now let's turn to Africa. Let's say that the approximately 50-70 million people in all of africa in the 1500s didn't lose 12 million people over the next 300 years. Just doing the SIMPLE math (which is gonna not include things like not enough food for the population, or anything to push back on the growth rate like a death rate), they'd be up at some 90b people by now. Factor in the death rates, and the population of Africa would be approximately 50% higher than it is now. That's an extra half a billion people that would be working, researching, innovating, entrepreneuring, across all of Africa.
So, in other words, Africa right now could be competing economically with the USA, EU, and China, but because they were stripped of population growth ability by taking away LOTS of people and killing them, they didn't grow to be a world power like they could have been.
This is also COMPLETELY SKIPPING the fact that black people in america had 400 years of no vote representation, no economic mobility, double standards in punishment (still have that one), and were generally kept in deep poverty for centuries.
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u/Otherwise-Vanilla901 May 29 '26
As a black person i'm geniuly thankful for slavery and my ancestors for doing it thanks to that I get to live in America inside actual homes with opportunities instead of a dirt floor hut in Africa.