re: #60 RealityBasedSteve

The blacks themselves were responsible for it, since there were black slave traders in Africa. /// (Believe it or not, that it’s an argument I’ve actually seen put forward)

Oh, of course. Slavery wasn’t racist because the Africans were sold into slavery originally by other Africans. And there were black slaveowners. And there were white slaves*.

When someone tries to tell me slavery wasn’t racist for one of those reasons, I ask whether a black person could own a white person, and his children. They generally stop responding at that point.

*No, they weren’t. They were really indentured servants whose indentures would expire and whose children were not born slaves