Well obviously, the Blacks who were enslaved aren't to blame. However, I think slavery needs to stop being looked at as White people enslaving Blacks. As we all know now, Whites bought Black slaves from Black slave owners.

Did you know that "Pygmies" were traditionally vassals to African (bantu/negroid) tribes and had to work for them in the forests like jungle helots? Take your Afrocentricism and stick it. No one denies the wrongs done to Africa but at the same time it is about time the Africans grew up and took a long hard look at themselves as well... Childish blaming each other gets nowhere and it doesn' help those poor souls dying of cholera in Zimbabwe, whose president the African union refused to oust..qed.

Continuing...But then again there is always the black nation of Zimbabwe. There we have a black President Robert Mugabe who with his brilliant economic planning, for the first time in world history, has made every single citizen of this nation A MULTI MILLIONAIRE!!! LOL!!!!

Reply to AtumUnit: Africa today is the poorest continent in the world because of the various black government's corruption, incompetence, war, Aids, lax work ethic, crime, modern day slavery and other human rights abuses, starvation, lack of proper sanitation, poor education and spirilling out of control population explosion. I never said there was nothing of value in Africa for Europeans and other Westerners. That would be false indeed to say such a thing.

Lets get one thing straight bub, your not fooling anyone except yourself. Don't be so fucking moronic. Q. If Africa as a continent has the most resources in the WORLD. Then why is it the poorest one in the world? Q. If there is nothing of value in Africa then why do europeans and others make it their business to be in such a place?

Of course Africans helped in the slave trade. NO ONE SAID ANY DIFFERENT. Just because they were black doesn't meaning some weren't greedy self serving bastards. 1. The tribes which sold off other Africans were mainly ones which practiced islam. Arab influence, (a peaceful religion which promotes violence and servitude) ;) 2. ALL of the countries you've mentioned have inextricable links in history with islam or european colonialism. ;) To say black people have THEMSELVES to blame is laughable.

Continuing...THERE ARE BLACK SLAVES IN AFRICA TODAY. In Sudan, Mauritania, The Democratic Republic of Congo and closer to home, Haiti!!!!

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Reply to AtumUnit: Who put them in their situations in the first place!!?? Well,listen up. During the slave era, Europeans usually bought slaves who were captured in tribal wars between African kingdoms or by black African slave traders!!! In return, European sold African slave traders, muskets, cloth or alcohol!!! So you see, AFRICANS PLAYED AN ACTIVE ROLE IN SELLING THEIR OWN PEOPLE INTO SLAVERY !!!! Europe and the rest of the world was never dependent on Africa to keep them fed.

Reply to NECHOII. After reading a comment like yours it's evident that you think black people are incompetent children and should be grateful and indebted to the europeans, WHO PUT THEM IN THEIR SITUATIONS IN THE FIRST PLACE. Moron. How dare you. The fact that you have the audacity to say such a thing highlights your naivety/stupidity. Europe and the rest of the world should show gratitude to Africa for keeping outsiders fed! Africa is RAPED by the western world and you expect THANKS!? Fuck you

Reply to AtumUnit: Oh yeah. After reading a comment like yours, I think back to 1961 when President Kennedy created the Peace Corp and from that time, all the tens of billions of dollars donated by white people in North America, Europe and elsewhere to help the wretched starving poverty stricken Black people of Africa. And billions of dollars more are needed now to fight hunger, Aids, you name it. Ah well, that's gratitude for you.

Their time is up. They do the unimaginable crimes and are zoophiliacs.

It gives me great pleasure to see that the mutant cave men show such great interest in our history. They know that their time is coming to an end. The raping, murdering, pillaging, child molesting savages that they are. Don't get mad with the genetic defects lacking in all that which is human. Their claims that they are superior are proven wrong everyday. All that they excel at is the aforementioned, that's the only reason they are in the position they're in today, but that's not gonna last.

That's weird, I meant that comment for somebody else, but yeah it's an interesting read.

I'm surely will check out that article, it sounds very interesting.

"The reason why they should have been characterized by that particular hue is a different matter that will be considered shortly. For the moment, however, what this tells us is that it takes a lot longer than 10,000 years for the selective effects of UV-B in tropical sunshine to produce the intensity of pigmentation seen in the skin of such modern people as the inhabitants of New Guinea or tropical Africa." h t t p : / / multiracial . com / site / content / view / 134 / 39 /

"The ancestors of the modern inhabitants of the tropics in Southeast Asia, Polynesia and South America all came from the non-tropical portions of eastern Asia no earlier than the latter part of the Pleistocene. We can assume, then, that the skin color of those ancestors was not significantly different from that of the inhabitants of the temperate parts of eastern Asia today..."

People migrated out of Africa 80,000 years ago and were in India by 74,000 years ago judging by the types of stone tools found in the region. That means they were in Asia prior to any great civilizations being founded. The development of lighter skin is thought to have come about in the Pleistocene.

cont.5:is on the rise. You can look at C-Span, the financial markets, etc to see this. Anyway, I say this so ya'll can see that all things go into descent at some point. What goes up, must come down, thats karma, and All religions teach it, just differently. So Black Egypt was a REALITY, and just take a look at Egypt, its slowly turning back black, especially for the one's who have been there for generations. The skin is darkening to combat the sun's rays. Just like mine had lightened a little.

cont.4:other people's belief, and ideology to control them now, what makes you think they didn't do it back then. Thats just common sense peoples! It even says so in the Bible, Quran, Vedic, Torah. Using this method, the whiter skinned people came in control and for some reason, wants to discredit and disenfranchise the darker races of their former glory. But the whiter races have been doing so much dirt, that now, in the present, they are starting to go into desent, and the darker race's power

cont.3: those who developed away from africa. If you want to combine that with christian religion, when God split the languages at the tower of babel, mis-communication ensued, people left to where they were understood. So with a fragmented religion and languages, people's ideology was also fragmented and everything evolved into something different. Not to mention, the amount of melanin in the skin was also changing. Like always, you have good and bad people, so if people could really manipulate

cont.2:goes to your hair. If you don't believe me, then explain why many African Americans (who are not mixed) are lighter than both parents, and has hair that is less kinky than their parents? Evolution people! Also in Asia, you have many very brown asians, almost my completion. So yes at one point, black people ruled. They invented and created, then they fell into descent. Using science, whatever way of thinking the egyptians and other black populations in control had, was verry different from

This is so simple unless you are racist, Its scientifically proven that everyone one comes from Africa, Its also proven that the amount of melanin in your skin changes depending on location, since Africa has harsh sun, yes, people would be black(take a look at present Egypt, people are browning naturally throught evolution.) White people exist because they left and went to an area with sun less intense. Its rumored that the excss melanin (after generations of evolution of course) goes to your

For the most part in my anthropological studies, I have come across pictures of wigs, dreadlocks, braids and cornrows. Dark skin women who were depicted as Egyptian in the movie Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor had afros. Saudi Arabia sees Egypt as cursed HARAM. Arabs claim Egypt for its glory and greatness but they do not respect or believe in the traditional spiritual beliefs of the ancient pyramid builders.

Good point!