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Originally Posted by Black Peter
I'm not sure the white man invented it, or was the sole inventor. I think Africans need to also look into their hearts. They sold each other to the white man. They sold each other to Arabs. While the Western culture was obviously sick in this regard, the African culture helped to perpetuate it. I think we all, as humans, need to look more deeply into our own hearts.
While we're talking about Africans and slavery you might need to be a bit more nuanced about the different conceptions of slavery. There certainly wasn't the racial solidarity we would want to project onto them in the past because to them being black wasn't as consequential as being from this or that tribe, etc., but we shouldn't sell them as short to imagine their conception of slavery was the same as ours was.
You are right that hopefully we can overcome the part of human nature that wants to unjustly take advantage of each others.
Last edited by Huehuecoyotl; 07-11-2017 at 09:23 PM.