Why do they whine about slavery?

Question

Why do blacks still whine about slavery? When the the evil white man went to africa they were sold to them by other africans who had enslaved them first. Why do they forget facts like that when they are whining?

Answer 1

Just an excuse they want it all handed to them so they don't have to earn it like everyone else. Affirmative action isn't enough for them. I still can't see why they whine, that was something they can't even relate to, they weren't even near existence the whiners are the young 20 somethings usually that have no drive, living impoverished. I have come across many hard working, educated, successful and driven black people and they never complain. The whiners in turn call them sellouts go figure, guess you can't please everyone all of the time.

Answer 2

Well, slavery is evil no matter how you put it. That it is done by whites or blacks or any race it is still wrong. Nobody should excuse slavery no matter what the circumstance. Why some black people forget such details? The answer is simple. Some extremist thinking black people want to argue reparations for such an injustice. So if you want to sue someone for something you are going for their money. As we know Africans are not exactly the richest people on earth. In order to get something you go for the people with money in the chain of events. In this day and age the people with money is the white people. I disagree however with reparations because no one alive today is there to claim injustice. No one alive today was enslaved so there can be no reparation and no white man can be personally accused of slavery. And if all peoples claimed some kind of historical injustice, what will we do? For example the Irish from the English, or the Greeks from the Turks, or the Romanians from the Roman Empire. So where would it stop, how far back can we go. It simply is impracticable.

Answer 3

First of all, lets remember what effect slavery had on American Society. In our constitution we are counted as 3/5ths of a person. It took the deaths of great men for us to obtain official equal rights, and racisim is still very alive and active in the US.

True Africans also had slavary, but they did not have it in the same way that white plantation owners had it. Most of the slavery in West Africa was more in the form of indentured servatude (similar to the slavery they had in Rome) where a slave still had rights and was considered a person. While in Chattel slavery the slave is considered only property with no rights at all.

As for US slavery vs the Holocaust (which has been thourally discussed). Yes the holocaust was a horrible event, but the world admits it and has repeated references and honorings of it. While Slavery, the horrors, and after effects are comparitively forgotten. 25 million people went through the Cape coast Castle in Ghana alone. It's estimated that more than 75 million people were lost from the continent and 15 % of those never made it to the Americas. There was a genocide of at least 11 million people. And yet how many movies, memorials, national events are held in honor of those who are lost?

Now I don't deny that I am glad to be born and raised in the US, inspite of how some part of my genetics got there. And I don't bring up slavery often (there are much better parts of our history to dwell on). Still, what else would you expect people to harp on when slavery is basically the only part of Black American History that is taught.

Answer 4

Not all black people whine about slavery, but the ones that do whine about it seem like they are are just really angry and pissed off at the world because of all the racism that exists and think the world owes them a favor. Do we hear Jewish people whining about the Holocaust? Noooooo and if you ask me - that was a far more heinous event in human history. I'm not saying slavery was any less heinous - I'm just trying to point out that black people are not the only people in the world that have been treated poorly by the world.

Answer 5

Might be the decades of torture, helping to build this country and not being allowed to have basic human rights in return.They might be a *little* sore about all the generations of families that were broken apart and sold. Might be the fact that people like to comment on slavery and try to play down what an atrocity it was, by using lame excuses like 'they were enslaved by other Africans first'.

Yeah, you now what, I bet that's why.

Answer 6

slavery existed throughout human history, throughout the roman empire and the islamic caliphates people would often become a slave by their own choosing to repay a debt, etc, but they were treated fairly humanely (of course, according to contemporary standards rather than our modern standards). but the transatlantic slave trade was the most brutal ever experienced by humanity. by all counts, it was a genocide. i doubt--though this is the most hypothetical proposition ever--that the african slave traders would have agrred to the deal if they knew what was in store for the slaves.

Answer 7

heres the thing that baffles me the leaders and the gunmen that built the trade and the routes were arabic traders and they had a supply line from east to west and north and south so why would any black person admire or imulate a moslem that caused the slave trade

Answer 8

For the same reason they join the religion that enslaved them and ignore their native faiths?

Answer 9

How can you act this questions. I guess you don't those nice places on the south that used to have signs white only entrance.
Ignorance is not excuse.

Answer 10

Watch "Roots", it is in DVD or video, an old TV series that might give you some insight.