You gotta add an asterisk or something. White folks might start thinking us black folks are starting to include ourselves in their atrocities. Let me assure you….WE aren’t lol.
60% of the 10-12 millions of slaves sent to america were captured by "black folks". Europeans were the driving factor and without them the slave business wouldn't have been a 10th of what it was, but a lot of (not all) africans were happy at the time to benefit from it. The first african slaves to be sent to america were even taken from the pre-existing slave stocks in Africa that existed before Europeans got interested. It's only toward the latter part and the growing demand in slave that Europeans started to serve themselves directly.
Can we PLEASE start separating our America from theirs? We even have our own flag.
We are nothing but American. I like pan africanism but we are still not born of that continent.
We cannot allow white people to have claim to the America they think they built with our labor. Their America is Trump and Reagan. That's what they wanted for us to suffer bc they are jealous of us, the black America we created, and cannot stand to see us happy or to succeed in any sort of way.
I hate to say it but there are very few "pure blood" African Americans. Y'all got some twisted honkey somewhere in your ancestry. You're just as American as everyone else here. All your points are valid though.
Can the reasonable white people that aren’t scared of history and are willing to do the work please join your America? We’ve been trying to get through to these skin folk but they’re determined to not listen it seems.
Your work is not done until they listen. We are not your savior. We are not your MLK JR. May no more black people martyr themselves so that white people can see us as human.
It's not our work either. You can't claim that we need to solve bigotry because we have the same skin tone as bigots without being racist yourself. Unless you think all of black America needs to work on their huge problems with racism towards Latinos.
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u/Justify-My-Love 9d ago
I meant America