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| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 7:39am On Mar 28 |
basilico:+ I know all this. As per Obama, so what? |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by ribbit: 7:41am On Mar 28 |
Imagine asking how America will fund anything while it's busy spending 2 billion dollars a day to help Israel blow shit up in foreign countries. ![]() How are Republicans always funding wars that benefit no one? Ehn raumdeuter? |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 7:46am On Mar 28 |
DeepSight:BS on the bold. the Trans-Saharan trade was the institutional foundation of West African statehood for nearly a millennium. It was organized and institutional just differently conducted through established trade routes across the Sahara. It was controlled by states and empires, such like Mali Empire, Songhai Empire Kanem-Bornu Empire etc. Integrated into Islamic commercial networks Regulated by laws, taxation, and customs systems caravans were organized, financed, and protected. Its is not some pirates of the Carribean BS you are implying |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 7:49am On Mar 28*. Modified: 8:04am On Mar 28 |
DeepSight:If African did not refuse why did Britain bombed Lagos and forced chiefs to sign the treaty? They do guns buy back too. Americans fought a civil war over it. Britain paid to free the slaves. I don't get you people sometimes. |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 7:52am On Mar 28 |
GracieX3:So they paid slave owners to free the slaves. What is your point? Slavery was legal, people were properties. |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by GracieX3(f): 7:54am On Mar 28 |
benalvino3:Sources needed. Furthermore, not all tribes and villages in West Africa engaged in slave trade. This is one ommission racists always forget. They weren't countries, just differing tribes. |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 7:58am On Mar 28 |
GracieX3:True. Not all tribes. This is your source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction_of_Lagos My question is why people who were forced to end slave trade asking for reparations?
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| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 8:16am On Mar 28 |
benalvino3:+ What treaty? They do guns buy back too. Americans fought a civil war over it. Britain paid to free the slaves. I don't get you people sometimes.+ So you feel it was right for slavers to be compensated but not slaves. Are you aware that Britain only finished paying in 2015? |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 8:18am On Mar 28 |
benalvino3:+ Pls show me the corporation's involved. The lists and records of slaves and slavers, the records of transactions. The state to state records of diplomacy governing the trade. The records are simply not there or at worst so barely that you can never compare such records to that of the Trans Atlantic and thus you can never say that the institutional involvement was comparable. This is the point. |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 8:20am On Mar 28 |
He is the FBI. I think he should be able to get to the bottom of this with the help of.....oh wait, he fired all the competent people. I can almost hear them chanting “but Hilary’s emails” And the whole time it was nothing remotely close to any of this.
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| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 8:21am On Mar 28 |
My mind has been shutting down everyday I come here and see their putrid posts. IjeBos: |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 8:40am On Mar 28 |
DeepSight:What's right is paying to free the slaves. When abolition is forced without compromise, it can lead to massive violence. I already mentioned the American Civil War. Britain chose to pay to end slavery quickly and avoid that scale of destruction. Why do you have problem with that? |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:41am On Mar 28 |
W benalvino3:Should Africans whose ancestors were enslaved pay the British for stopping the trade. If it wasn't stopped we could still be slaves. Should Arabs pay Africans. Or have we moved on,no need to dwell on the past injusticea which will never reoccur BTW, All this is in jest. |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 8:45am On Mar 28 |
DeepSight:You’re confusing lack of surviving documentation with lack of institutional structure. W. African and trans-Saharan systems did not produce or preserve records in the same volume or format as European Atlantic systems, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t state organized. Mali and Songhai empires taxed trade, regulated routes, and controlled commerce across the Sahara. That is institutional involvement even if it wasn’t recorded through corporations, insurance contracts, and shipping manifests like the trans-Atlantic system. |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 8:49am On Mar 28 |
basilico:Africa problems too much. |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 8:53am On Mar 28 |
benalvino3:+ Once you recognise something as barbaric and inhuman you should not compensate for it. And if you do, you should also compensate the victims through whose blood and sweat unspeakable wealth was derived for you. That is what is fair. |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 8:54am On Mar 28 |
basilico:+ The only reason I have an issue with reparations is that it will be far too complex and well nigh impossible to determine who should get what. |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 8:56am On Mar 28 |
benalvino3:+ I told you from the onset that part of the reason is records. Didn't you get that. I said that is part of the reason that people today will focus on the Trans Atlantic. I also mentioned timeline. A thousand years ago was a different universe. The Trans Atlantic is closer in time and in civilizational continuity. |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 8:56am On Mar 28 |
DeepSight:Oga, why should brits fight and kill themselves when they can settle with cash? That's common sense. The Americans fought and killed themselves. |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 8:58am On Mar 28 |
benalvino3:+ Not a problem, I mentioned a second part. If you settle the oppressors with cash, you should also settle the victims. That would be consistent with logic since you abolished it on the recognition of its barbarism and inhumanity and also for the fact that you profited massively from their blood and sweat. |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 8:59am On Mar 28 |
DeepSight:All the aids the US has been given were all looted. They should pay reparations, especially Ghana and Nigeria. |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 9:02am On Mar 28 |
benalvino3:+ This is an absurd argument. In the first place it's a different matter. In the second place neo colonialism extracts far more than any aid the west gives or has ever given. Just go and see what France has been taking from Francophone West Africa till date. In the third place I still have to ask who appointed you lawyer for the West. Why are you fighting tooth and nail to argue their case. Why can't you at least argue a balanced case on both sides? HN. Kuuuuuuuuu. . . . . . . |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 9:06am On Mar 28 |
DeepSight:There is nothing absurd in what I said. Even when the government allocates cash for a program, it is looted. The level of corruption is too much. |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by DeepSight(m): 9:09am On Mar 28 |
benalvino3:. + I agree with that and it is a fact. My question is why can you only argue for your masters. Why can't you apportion blame in a balanced way? We all know the level of corruption and manipulation the west exercises up till today in Africa. Why do you defend them one hundred per cent and only accuse us? Are you being paid, HN? |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:13am On Mar 28 |
benalvino3:I didn't want to bring that up . America has given so much to blacks within it and to every African country. African leaders after looting the aid blame slave trade. Like that Ghanian President expecting a windfall of cash, debt write-off or investment spending. Since 1964 War on Poverty between $20-25 Trillion has been poured into American welfare programs of which blacks are disproportionately represented. . The issue has to do with guilt shaming. |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 9:16am On Mar 28 |
DeepSight:What I am doing is counter argument to the one sider UN resolution our brothers here who love the US vs THEM (white people) are pushing. My argument is slavery shouldn't be compartmentalize, it should be condemned and all involved should take responsibility. Ghana is pointing fingers on mainly the US and UK while acting like they were not part of it as well as the Arabs. bayelsaowei:How does this quote sound to you? 👆👆👆 Now compare that with this bayelsaowei:He saw something condemnable but he is waiting for tomorrow |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 9:17am On Mar 28*. Modified: 3:17pm On Mar 28 |
basilico:We Africans hate to hear the truth |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:21am On Mar 28 |
benalvino3:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Mauritania They ended slavery in 1981 but indentured slaves still work on the Arab estates. The criminalization of owning slaves was signed by the president in 2007. |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by benalvino3: 9:24am On Mar 28 |
basilico:The British end of slavery was followed by their colonial rule. So they ended one problem then started another. |
| Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by bayelsaowei(m): 10:48am On Mar 28 |
benalvino3:You’ve intentionally decided to lie by saying I haven’t condemned slavery in its entirety. See my previous post to Raumdeuter. I have chosen to speak about the transatlantic slavery system as a case in point and it got you and other vassals triggered. It is either you guys are being paid to defend nonsense or as usual you’re still slaves in real time to the white folks. You heap all the blame’s on your ancestors and absolve those who demanded for slaves and sustained one of the most sophisticated slave system in human history.
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