The black folk in Africa were an equal partner with the whites in this trade and equally to blame for slavery just like drug dealers are equally responsible as drug users in the drug trade.
Conceptually, it is not much different than bringing Mexican day laborers to work on farms or even bringing Indian IT engineers to work here on H1B visa.
I often ask myself the question: “If you find out one day that you are really an African-American, how would you really feel?” I believe that I would feel thankful that my ancestors were brought to this country as slaves by white people.
Even if black slaves in the seventeenth or eighteenth century had succeeded in taking over by killing/imprisoning their white masters, the country would have evolved, at best, like a prosperous nation in Africa, Nigeria, for example. The life that blacks enjoy in USA is certainly better than living in a country like Nigeria.
It is indeed difficult, if not impossible, to get out of this mold of “inner city blacks” or “southern blacks” once you are born there, but it seems that a majority of black folks have not tried hard enough to break out. Various opportunities have been handed out to them, starting with voting rights, “equal opportunity” quotas at college admission and workplaces, fair housing programmes, equitable education through forced busing, but without success.
They were not killed or tortured as a rule. Yet, it seems that black folks today feel that the country owes them continuing and never-ending preferential treatment which amounts to financial compensation amounting to billions of dollars through social programmes.
In other words, the blacks seem to prefer to present themselves as victims instead of trying to change their lives.
