re: Reparations "Imaginary country of New Colonia" vs Liberia

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i mean...as long as you keep saying shite like i wish my ancestors never brought the slaves over from africa in the first place, i'm going to keep pointing out that you're a bigot. sorry, not sorry

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So you're glad a subset of people were enslaved because of skin color?

and he's the racist...

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So you're glad a subset of people were enslaved because of skin color?

and he's the racist...

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Who enslaved them in the first place?

I'll hang up and listen.

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An actual African once told me they call people from Liberia "American-Africans".

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The official term is "Americo-Liberian" - but yeah, same difference. Liberia wasn't a homogenous country of freed slaves like some of you seem to think.

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Liberia wasn't a homogenous country of freed slaves like some of you seem to think.

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I never thought it was homogeneous. I just find it ironic that the freed slaves basically enslaved the locals by locking them out of the political system.

You'd think they'd be sympathetic.

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So you're glad a subset of people were enslaved because of skin color?

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saying you wish your ancestors never brought blacks to america to begin with, because of ones opinion of black culture in 2017, is very racist.

not rocket science here

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To be fair, we did kind of help with that.

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Kind of? We financed them well into the 1960s and in return used their natural resources. At one point Liberia was a popular American vacation destination. In the 90s it was hell on earth.

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They should've just worked them over in Africa and sent the goods on ships. Leave them there when they decided to abolish slavery. We wouldn't have to put up with all this BS over something we had nothing to do with now

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I am not an expert on the economics of trans atlantic slave trade. However, my guess is that in-house production of goods had more advantages

1) It probably would cost more to per load of cash crop to trade over the Atlantic.

2) Slave revolt/runaway would be much higher even with colonies set up in slave labor camps. In the US you could more easily get other states to return your slaves and fight with you to stop them.

3) The cost of maintaining the slave labor camps would not only have the expected cost of slave maintenance, but you would probably have to pay private soldiers/guards to keep your slaves and defend against possible attack from other African tribes.

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Liberia was not founded by white guilt. It was a place to simply send the blacks to and get rid of them. It was the opposite of white guilt, it was "get out of town (nword).

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^This. Lincoln and some other politicians simply wanted to get ride of Blacks. Liberia was just political maneuvering to give them their own country, so they would not longer be in the US. Thereby preventing another civil war from happening again.

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That's not analogous to reparations or whatever "New Colonia" is supposed to be, at all. We invaded another country and dumped former slaves there, just because it was the right continent.

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Holy shite!

Why does the asylum allow you access to a computer?

So, you have black friends. That's nice. I have a black daughter.