Would you say that black and white people have more in common than they realize?

[KevinReijnders]

Nothing you just said disproves that the trans-atlantic slave trade happening was a massive event in history and it being scrubbed from the timeline impacting events.

You say yourself how reliant the Southern United States were on slavery. Imagine if that wasn't baked into the economy from the very start. Those states would have developed differently and there might not even have been an American Civil War.

[BoomerZ]

bedrock of the foundation of modern day America, not to mention the wealth it generated

This is the part I have a problem with.

[KevinReijnders]

What about that is wrong?

The slave trade made a small group of influential people ridiculously wealthy and it is foundational to American history. Some of the founders of the nation were slave owners and within the founding documents compromises were made to appease slave states. It led to mayor events such as the civil war and it is a defining factor for race relations in the country to this day.

It's not unironically called by some America's original sin without reason.

[IndigoShirtProd]

They were also enslaving their own people

Originally, I wasn't originally going to saying anything else, but I don't like this statement. I mainly don't like it because its wrong, better said: inaccurate. It’s a statement that is dismissive of the impact of chattel slavery by introducing a logical fallacy."Well, they did it too" even though, while no one every in history should have been enslaved, enslaving POWs and people from opposing tribes is not the same as using a continent to fuel an economic industrial complex the world over. I don't think you were trying to equate the two, but I have to question how much "African history" you know. I'll admit, I dont know much so I'm always willing to learn.

[ShidoDraws]

I sent you a DM. Hopefully we can learn from each other.

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