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posted by takyon on Saturday June 20 2015, @11:30PM   Printer-friendly

"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 frojack on Sunday June 21 2015, @02:01AM

    by frojack (1554) on Sunday June 21 2015, @02:01AM (#198896) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @04:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @04:17AM (#198934)

    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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