I was chillin before class one day and I made a comment about slavery. Then this white guy, someones who fairly intellegent but still very ignorant, stepped in and asked me why black people are so worked up about slavery.
He said: It happened in the past and theres nothing we can do about it so we should just move on. Then he said that we should be thankful for slavery because living in North America is so much better than living in Africa right now (he used the example between Canada and SIerra Leone). If it wasnt for slavery half of us would be **** from fighting in wars as child soldiers or just victims or wars and the rest of us would be living in extreme poverty and dying from malnourishment or HIV/****.
I said: the reason why Africa is in such turmoil these days is because of the colonisation by Europeans and the fact that slavery had a huge negative impact on the continent because so many villages were devastated.
Personally, I was really offended but do u think he has a point? Should we be thankful that slavery brought us here? Just wondering what you guys think of this.
I've heard this arguement a lot of times, and I definitely think we could have been better off if we stayed in Africa and it hadn't been colonized. At the same time, this is one of those "what if" arguements that is impossible to really judge and predict how the different continents would have progressed. It's just like sayin "if Magic had never got HIV, what would the Lakers have done?" "if Pac never got shot, what would rap be like?" there is a lot of different possibilities.
I definitely don't think that America would have been at the level it is now without us here. Not only from what we did during slavery, but because of all of our inventions and our strong cultural influence that we had in America. Imagine if we could have done some similar things in Africa.
I was just thinking to myself, ' What if the chinese were the ones that were enslaved? Would America be the most technologically advanced country in the world?'
What if blacks never moved from Africa, and stayed there. Would the 'tribe' system work? You see how well it works for th indians :| things like this makes you wonder......
I've heard this arguement a lot of times, and I definitely think we could have been better off if we stayed in Africa and it hadn't been colonized. At the same time, this is one of those "what if" arguements that is impossible to really judge and predict how the different continents would have progressed. It's just like sayin "if Magic had never got HIV, what would the Lakers have done?" "if Pac never got shot, what would rap be like?" there is a lot of different possibilities.
I definitely don't think that America would have been at the level it is now without us here. Not only from what we did during slavery, but because of all of our inventions and our strong cultural influence that we had in America. Imagine if we could have done some similar things in Africa.
It's so sad that alot of them feel this way because I too have heard white people say some ignorant ****like that before and have of coarse had to check them. They have been so used to learning history from a eurocentric perspective and living in their kushy little eurocentric worlds that they know nothing about any other cultures and histories (which are more accurate) and they are blind to the fact that had their greedy, evil and sadistic ancestors not luded, plundered, colonialized, and **** the whole world, alot of the issues in the world today would not exist. In short, white people can't help their ignorance, so now it's up to us to shed some light on their stupidity.
and i love how he stated it
