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Originally Posted by sivic02
First of all racism didnt cause slavery. Secondly, white people didnt enslave blacks, the slaves were bought and were already slaves in the native lands of Africa. White people didnt go over there and capture a bunch of people, they were bought from other African kings and people of that nature. Blacks were enslaving other blacks since about 460A.D. So as far as slavery being used as a reason for racism people who know the facts know that if they should be mad at anyone it should be the group of people who took over one tribe and enslaved them until they sold them, not white people who just bought them.
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Such may be true that Africans enslaved other africans, but whites did come to Africa and TAKE groups of Africans. And to say that blacks shouldn't be mad at whites or blame them for slavery and racism is ridiculous
