re: Fun Fact: There is more Slavery in Africa today than during Colonial America

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Does that somehow make America’s history of slavery OK to you???

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Slavery actually happening today is relevant. Slavery that happened many generations ago isn't. Sorry.

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Only about 388,000 were shipped to North America.

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The slave import trade was banned by Congress in 1808, but the slaves who were already here reproduced, plus there was smuggling.

The total slave population in the South eventually reached 4,000,000. By way of comparison, the total population of Mississippi today is less than 3,000,000. That's a lot of slaves.

That number only includes direct shipments from Africa to North America.
Not included: the indirect trade via the Caribbean.

Oh, and the fact that those people had children for generations over hundreds of years after arriving- all who suffered under slavery. So the number is in the tens of millions, Einstein.

Yes, many aspects of the Atlantic slave trade are ignored or distorted to support Leftist narratives, but your counter argument is dumb.

We have no involvement there either, so we’re just as much on the hook for reparations there.

What/where is the "New World"?

Why is that fun?

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Fun Fact: There is more Slavery in Africa today than during Colonial America

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I would not call this a "fun fact", but a "horrible fact"



Also, slaves weren't exclusively shipped from Africa. Slaves were forced to have sex and have children and that wound up being a significant percentage of the slave population

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Ok. Does that somehow make America’s history of slavery OK to you???

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The point is that America is persistently described as an oppressive place to live. That we are in dire need of social justice. That we are infected with "whiteness" and that BIPOCs are under constant threat of annihilation. That our economic system was intentionally structure to reinforce white people. That we need a systemic overhaul. That we are uncultured, uncouth, and immoral. That our history books need to be erased and rewritten. That our educational system needs to be used to reprogram nearly half of the country's population.

But the fact remains and will remain for a long time that people of color around the globe perpetuate absolutely vile, disgusting, and oppressive regimes compared to first world Western nations that were founded by white people. Everything you read about what's bad in America can be found in exponentially worse forms in countries around the world.

DAmn that sucks.

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If you don’t know what the point of the thread is, how do you know the reasoning is faulty?

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I should say: It seems like the point of this thread is to imply colonial slavery "wasn't that bad" based off this modern standard, which would be totally asinine. That's why I hope it's not the reason, because this reasoning makes no sense.