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"At some point as a country, we have to reckon with what happens. It's not enough to express sympathy. You don't see this kind of murder, on this scale, with this kind of frequency in other advanced countries on earth." - President Obama.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday June 21 2015, @03:00PM
Yes - it matters. It matters a lot. The people who TOOK the slaves are no less culpable than those who bought and sold the slaves. How do you think they GOT the slaves, anyway? A raiding party went into a village, killed off however fighting age men was necessary, raped the women, tied/shackle/chained the captured survivors together, and marched those prisoners for miles and miles with inadequate food and drink, then drove them into pens like animals. Let's not forget that the weak and infirm would have been killed off along the way - toddlers, the elderly, people suffering from disease. Then, the auctions, separating mothers from children, etc ad nauseum. Man's inhumanity to man started with raiders destroying the lives of people in neighboring villages, not with pirate vessels raiding the coasts.
Maybe worse than raiding neighboring villages, were the political maneuverings. The shaman can't get along with the chief, so one or the other has his opponent captured and delivered to a coastal town as a slave. Or, a jealous lover has his/her rival kidnapped, and sent to the coast.
I don't know how the hell you measure evil, but the locals who traded in slaves are equals with the sea captains and their crews in every way. And, neither was one whit better than the end buyers in the Americas.
Evil is evil - and you can't excuse those Africans who engaged in the same evil that the white men were doing.
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