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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, and it's the reason I find its widespread inclusion in "diversity" events to be odd.[/quote]

I don’t follow this.  Why?   Humans are all deeply flawed regardless of race.  Black slave traders sold other blacks to the Europeans in Africa.  Look at child soldiers in Africa today being abducted drugged and brainwashed.  [/quote]

Slavery in Africa was nothing like New World  chattel slavery. There was no way that the Africans who sold slaves knew that they were consigning people to be property since that’s not how slavery worked in African societies. They had know way of knowing that the children of the people sold would be kept enslaved in generations because that’s not how African slavery worked either.

[b]It’s also important to recognize that whiteness and blackness didn’t really exist yet as identity categories. [/b]Africans involved in the slave trade didn’t view the people they sold as sharing a racial identity. Ethnicity and religion were what mattered for solidarity. And even initially, whites were focused on getting non-Christians regardless of skin colors. Remember, they tried enslaving the native peoples of the Americas first. Most died and the survivors converted as a way of getting the protection of the Church. [/quote]
?  yes it did.  White people back then still saw black people as inferior.  Actually, they saw all non white Christians as inferior.

And I'm a Christian.[/quote]

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