You do know that the average slave had it better here than where he/she came from, right?

Question

Notice how many went back to Africa after they were freed and those that did, what happened?

Do any of you know the average life span of that free man in the jungle? Do you know how many children made it to maturity? Do any of you have the guts to face the facts about the killing, the disease that exists right now in these minority countries? Will any of you address what Bill Cosby told his race? You are really afraid of the truth? Is this what the pony tailed professor taught you?

Read "The End of Racism" by Dinesh D'Souza

Answer 1

Obviously, this question illustrates how lack of access to higher education can negatively impact a person's ability to think intelligently or morally. Slavery was and remains one of the greatest evils to ever plague humanity. And, it is still happening today. The ignorance that would suggest that slavery has any positive value is at the heart of most of the world's most grave problems. The mind that delights not merely in its own lack of understanding, but also in spreading hate can at best be pitied. Nonetheless, it must be fought, the way all ignorance and prejudice must be fought wherever it is occurs. Worse still than the poisoned mind is the poisoned heart that lacks empathy for those that have suffered.

Answer 2

How many freed slaves actually did go back to Africa? Do you have statistics, or were you just trying to fill up space?

Actually most blacks remained in the South after emancipation, not because they had it so much better there, but because it was their home, or they couldn't afford to leave, or they were being held for service by their former masters.

Anyway, you're missing the point. Living in freedom, even if also in poverty and degradation, is a hekuva lot better than living in slavery in the lap of luxury.

That really is one of the stupidest questions I've ever seen asked here.

Answer 3

That is one of the most ignorant questions I've ever heard. The slave trade stopped about 100 years before we outlawed slavary. So that means all of the slaves were born here. Why would you want to go back to a place where you didn't speak the language, didn't know the culture, and didn't have a place to live. When you could do all those things right here. I'm sure there isn't a single person who would perfer beatings, just about no food, and no freedom to living off the land, farming and being able to do just about what you want.

Answer 4

there were slaves before and after africa, in other parts of the world, read the human rights watch .org site, you dont know what the hell you are talking about, try going back to school and getting an education

Answer 5

Yeah, dumba**, being in chains and treated worse than dirt sounds A LOT BETTER than running free in your country. And oh, right, African-Americans have it GREAT here nowadays, even if they're still fighting for equality among us slave-traders of yore.

Answer 6

a bonded man in a posh household envies the freeman under the jungle tree.
Depends on your concept of 'having it better'.

Answer 7

Where did your family come from, and why did they leave?

Most slaves were forced to come to America by their own people.

Read up on your own history bucko.

Answer 8

you're an idiot, maybe you should have gone to school or read a couple of books

Answer 9

starving in freedom is better than a full meal in bondage.

Answer 10

How do you know? Were you there? Did you experience any of what they experienced?