Was American slavery one of the greatest tragedies in the history of mankind?

[Chollo Vista]

Dats raycis cuh

Don't mind me pendejo

[Chollo Vista]

I'll buy you a one-way ticket to Zimbabwe or Congo.

Send me to the Bahamas, please

[boxingfan91]

Don't mind me pendejo

Aye u an african booty scratcher cuh

[Chollo Vista]

Aye u an african booty scratcher cuh

That African is scratching your Mexican girlfriend's booty... How does it feel knowing your Mexican women will always love the BBC?

Make you feel inferior?

[Sweet Pea 50]

But I never liked Tupac.

Boom.

Class dismissed.

[boxingfan91]

That African is scratching your Mexican girlfriend's booty... How does it feel knowing your Mexican women will always love the BBC?

Make you feel inferior?

Ayyye cuh, ur not even black

[Chollo Vista]

That's the problem with the slavery discussion.

In America, this is sugar coated and results in people trying to soften the reality or outright downplay the significance of it's occurrence in the US.

Was American Slavery THE worse tragedy in ALL history? No.

However, to cite the holocaust as a proponent against it, I wouldn't even rate the holocaust, in numbers, equal to American Slavery.
The significance of the holocaust is in time. In 5 years, 6 million are killed. That's staggering by amount of time. In 100 years, would every Jew have been killed? .....most likely.

However, 6 million doesn't compare to 100 years of slavery spanning pre-1776 to 1865 abolition.

People want to soften it by saying 300k-400k were purchased. Okay, doesn't seem like much.
How many had children? How many of those children had children? How many had more than 3 children both generations. Numbers are starting to increase heavily.
149 years post slavery, 3 generations removed right? As on poster said.
Okay, taking those same numbers. 100 years. 3 generations (generations aren't limited to 1 offsprings. If x parent has 7 children, all 7 children are apart of y generation) of 300k different people. That is much more than the 6 million of the holocaust. Easily.
All of this while forgetting the actual conditions of slavery. Which was beatings and killings, of which if a slave died the owner could be reimbursed for the "property".
Slavery wasn't exclusive to the US but reality of being a slave is still ever present. Period.

The real issue isn't even in slavery. It is in what occurs after slavery.
African Americans, blacks were still not considered human. Considered less than human, 1/8th of a human or something like that. Despite being "free" they were still persecuted, segregated, abused, killed for nothing more than skin color. (Jews in Nazi Germany were.... persecuted, segregated, abused, and killed for nothing more than Judaism.)
1860 to 1968... is a very long time. Slavery was abolished but African American, blacks were still treated to everything short of lining them up by the masses in gas chambers or ovens. For the most part from 1865 to 1968, African American, blacks were treated just like Ashkenazi jews before the actual liquidation of the ghettos in Nazi Germany.

That's. A. Lot. Of. People. Period.

This is THE major issue.

Slavery happened, yes. It happened worldwide, yes. It is still happening today, yes. Slavery has affected all cultures and people from Africans to East Asians to Scandinavians. American Slavery is NOT the greatest tragedy to the world. It is however, a stain on America.

The actual issue is... even after slavery was abolished, in America, the narrative was African American, blacks were nothing more than cattle. This in its self is a tragedy, that a group of people based on skin color (and origin) are persecuted for 200 years. That is a tragedy in the history of mankind.

So, stop using the holocaust talk. It really doesn't compare to 200 years of hatred and injustice towards African American, blacks for nothing other than having colored skin, in the United States alone. It doesn't.

Great post

Slavery started in the 1600's and lasted til 1860's or so. But the policy through the civil rights movement saw that the status quo was kept

How do you quantify all the racial policy that locked everything in place and made AAs a permanent underclass that were purposely kept illiterate for hundreds of years. Lives affected? 200 million if not more, I don't know.

We're talking 400 years of generations

[Elroy The Great]

https://gemreportunesco.wordpress.co...ree-education/

Can Africa afford free education?

''Today, BBC World Service (teehee )is holding a debate in South Africa around the question ‘Can Africa afford free education?’, which we have been helping them answer.

''....as of 2010, on average in the region, 20-24 year olds had only attained 6.6 years.''

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/artic...fricas-economy

High quality education is key to overcoming Africa's economic challenges.

''African education needs more of everything – more schools, more trained teachers, more investment.''

https://www.economist.com/news/middl...orst-education

South Africa has one of the world’s worst education systems

america's fault

[Prince Madison]

humans have committed atrocities throughout history so its hard to rank things, but the way them african americans were treated was ****ing despicable. It should certainly be considered a huge travesty of mankind.

[Elroy The Great]

humans have committed atrocities throughout history so its hard to rank things, but the way them african americans were treated was ****ing despicable. It should certainly be considered a huge travesty of mankind.

over 140 years ago.....
africa is still enslaving ITS OWN PEOPLE as we type.
no one seems to care about present day slavery

cest la vie