Upside to Slavery?
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Started by CAN Dancer
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Aug 2004
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.
R-Tistic wrote: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.
and i love how he stated it
