"Slavery Was a Choice "

[Arma]

And he was absolutely spot on. A couple of months ago, Kanye West made some rather controversial comments about the 400 year long slavery in the Americas.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...avery-for-400-years-that-sounds-like-a-choice

The man got crucified for it. I totally agree with him. Theres soo much fake historical revisionism, that hides the fact that, Bantus were selling each other on both sides of Africa, to Europeans and Arabs.

Now, yes of course Europeans and Arabs came to the continent, and forced many into chains, but they stayed in the coastal areas, never did they go deep in the interior of west and east Africa. The bulk of those slaves were brought to them by their fellow Bantus.

People need to start being truthful with each other, and stop blaming others, for the hand that they themselves have had in the oppression of their people.

 

[RICH]

You’re just a white man in a black mans body who could’ve been a slave owner.

 

[Arma]

You’re just a white man in a black mans body who could’ve been a slave owner.

You what, love?

 

[RICH]

You what, love?

Whatever. It’s interesting to think about it though.. What did the slaves do to stop their (white) oppressors? Cause the amount of slaves that were brought to the West is insane.

 

[The alchemist]

That argument is stupid. Dude. Your point is that blacks sold black slaves, and that's why it's a choice? I don't see the logic.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

And he was absolutely spot on. A couple of months ago, Kanye West made some rather controversial comments about the 400 year long slavery in the Americas.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...avery-for-400-years-that-sounds-like-a-choice

The man got crucified for it. I totally agree with him. Theres soo much fake historical revisionism, that hides the fact that, Bantus were selling each other on both sides of Africa, to Europeans and Arabs.

Now, yes of course Europeans and Arabs came to the continent, and forced many into chains, but they stayed in the coastal areas, never did they go deep in the interior of west and east Africa. The bulk of those slaves were brought to them by their fellow Bantus.

People need to start being truthful with each other, and stop blaming others, for the hand that they themselves have had in the oppression of their people.

Stop smoking crack cocaine

 

[Arma]

That argument is stupid. Dude. Your point is that blacks sold black slaves, and that's why it's a choice? I don't see the logic.

Yes that's exactly why it's a choice. They betrayed each other. Whole African tribes sold their fellow tribesmen. They profited from that.

 

[Arma]

Stop smoking crack cocaine

It's the truth.

 

[onlyme]

And he was absolutely spot on. A couple of months ago, Kanye West made some rather controversial comments about the 400 year long slavery in the Americas.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...avery-for-400-years-that-sounds-like-a-choice

The man got crucified for it. I totally agree with him. Theres soo much fake historical revisionism, that hides the fact that, Bantus were selling each other on both sides of Africa, to Europeans and Arabs.

Now, yes of course Europeans and Arabs came to the continent, and forced many into chains, but they stayed in the coastal areas, never did they go deep in the interior of west and east Africa. The bulk of those slaves were brought to them by their fellow Bantus.

People need to start being truthful with each other, and stop blaming others, for the hand that they themselves have had in the oppression of their people.

Niggah....do you find yourself saying hee hawww a lot?

 

[simulacrum]

Kanye West is right. Harriet Tubman chose not to be a slave, so did Nat Turner.

 

[The alchemist]

Yes that's exactly why it's a choice. They betrayed each other. Whole African tribes sold their fellow tribesmen. They profited from that.

When Kanye West talks in his bipolar manner, he means mental slavery. The guy couldn't keep a deal with Nike and couldn't get in with the big boys in the fashion world and called that slavery. The guy can't communicate like a normal human being and can't differentiate his experience from real slavery. Talk about being a genius.

When you are born as a slave, get separated by your parents, live with uncle toms that police you, get whipped while picking cotton, and see others get hanged for running. I don't think there's much choice there. Especially when the whole nation is white and all blacks are slaves. What are you talking about man?

 

[Dalmoor]

I guess QABYAALAD WAS A CHOICE! too

 

[kaluumayste]

Kanye west comment does not make sense bro, How is slavery a choice? did those people decided to pack their bags and took a ship to america to work in the fields for no pay and on top of that get whipped and lynched.

Trump must have done some MK ULTRA or something on kanye, coz no sane person would say those things.

 

[Mckenzie]

Slavery was part of the economy and African Americans weren't the only slaves in the World. Jews, Chinese, Indians, Oromos, the Slaviks etc.

What was inhumane about slavery in the US was that children were taken away from their parents so they'd have their entire lineage and background removed and would grow up believing it was their normal way of life to serve a white man and his family. And no laws existed to give slaves basic human rights so abuse was common.

 

[kaluumayste]

When kanye west talks in his bipolar manner, he means mental slavery. It is clear and evident.

When you are born as a slave, get separated by your parents, live with uncle toms that police you, get whipped while picking cotton, and see others get hanged for running. I don't think there's much choice there. Especially when the whole nation is white and all blacks are slaves. What are you talking about man?

If you dwell on the past you will never move forward

 

[The alchemist]

If you dwell on the past you will never move forward

I never do.

 

[Always Lit]

Niggah....do you find yourself saying hee hawww a lot?

tell us why slavery wasn't a choice?

slavery is a choice just like how people choose to commit suicide.

oh and i do say hee haaw...
:siilaanyolaugh:

 

[911]

Kanye meant that remaining enslaved was a choice, and that slaves could have rebelled but chose not to. Not that being enslaved originally was a choice.
But how much choice did they have to escape?
Knowing that if they were caught escaping, they would be whipped and hung.
If they sucessfully escaped, their family and other remaining slaves would be punished.
And after they escape, where do they go? At one point every single black person in the US was a slave, so any sighting of a black man outside a plantation meant runaway slave and slavecatchers would catch him immediately
There was not much choice.

 

[4head]

I think He meant that the slave mentality -> being still in the plantation, depending on your master and not having a free mind. Many AA insult him because he lives the life he wants.
And he used that example with the slaves and nowadays blacks in America. Blacks that still vote for the same party for over decades and they still live in poor cities and people are avoiding black americans, which is shameful.

 

[Dalmoor]

I think He meant that the slave mentality -> being still in the plantation, depending on your master and not having a free mind. Many AA insult him because he lives the life he wants.
And he used that example with the slaves and nowadays blacks in America. Blacks that still vote for the same party for over decades and they still live in poor cities and people are avoiding black americans, which is shameful.

Black Americans in US hate him and when he wore MAGA hat; their hatred for him imcreased