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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.
Discuss.
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You will triumph over your enemy.
(Score: 1) by timbojones on Sunday June 21 2015, @01:27AM
The bucket "African" is a lot bigger than the bucket "Jew". Africans have more genetic diversity than all other humans combined.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday June 21 2015, @01:51AM
As I posted to AC above - hypocricy much?
All men are brothers, but in the case of Africans, you take the time to point out their diversity? Are all men brothers, or not? If you choose to take the position that Africans selling Africans into slavery is understandable or forgivable, then you MUST ALSO understand and forgive white people for using blacks as slaves.
Your position is untenable. You must either accept and condone slavery, or you must condemn slavery - you can't claim that slavery is alright in one circumstance, but not alright in another.
Unless, of course, you happen to be a racist who hates whites, but loves blacks. In such a case, then anything and everything that a white person does seems wrong to you, and anything and everything that a black person does is fine with you.
Old Shakespeare had it right.
"What's in a name? That which we call a racist
By any other name would smell like shit."
We're gonna be able to vacation in Gaza, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran and maybe Minnesota soon. Incredible times.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday June 21 2015, @02:01AM
The bucket "African" is a lot bigger than the bucket "Jew". Africans have more genetic diversity than all other humans combined.
What is your point in bringing that up?
The Africans selling other Africans into slavery were neighboring clans, sometimes long time rivals, sometimes just one warlord coveting another's farmland or cattle. Sometimes brothers. This wasn't a case of of one radically different ethnic group from afar invading new territories. They got paid by the head, and got to keep the lands, cattle, often the wives of the merchandise. In all, about 250,000 slaves were imported to the US, while about 4.9 million were imported to Brazil, mostly from Angola.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @04:17AM
The reason a lot of folks ended up in Camp Delta (Guantanamo) was that it was economically advantageous to that guy's neighbor.
Just make up a story about a competitor, "rat him out" to the gullible USA operatives, take all that guy's stuff after he's gone--and you get a bounty from the USA's fools to boot.
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Why don't double quotes work in Subject lines any more?
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 22 2015, @02:44AM
I usually read that this is only because of isolated pygmy tribes [wikipedia.org], in particular around the Congo. Do you have any other evidence handy? There is a lot of FUD around that particular statistic on the web and would be interested to read more.