ThaChozenWun
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of that particular colonial, chattel slavery situation that existed between Africans and Europeans. We now believe nothing based on fact but rather men who tell us it's lies and trickery.
Servitude systems that existed in Africa, and in other indigenous communities can be compared to racist slave systems in the Western world and to this day we attempt to try to see this slavery in a different context. There is no difference but one, NO OTHER SLAVE SYSTEM has created the damaging cycle as the Atlantic Slave Trade. West Indian poet Derek Walcott has stated his feeling that our penchant for forgetting is a defense mechanism against pain, that if we were to take a good hard look at our history, at centuries of victimization, it would be too much for us to handle and we would explode. Well I say we are exploding anyway and in many cases from bombs that are our own. We have begun the long hard road of rewriting our ancient history, of rewording our old and noble legacy. Let us not stop and get cold feet now when the enemy now appears to take on a slightly darker hue. We must however separate the two and look at the slave trade in its OWN context, complete with all the historic and psychological peculiarities that have made it the single most damaging and enduring system of exploitation and hatred ever perpetrated in the recent memory of mankind. Until we do we will not escape its legacy.
of that particular colonial, chattel slavery situation that existed between Africans and Europeans. We now believe nothing based on fact but rather men who tell us it's lies and trickery.
Servitude systems that existed in Africa, and in other indigenous communities can be compared to racist slave systems in the Western world and to this day we attempt to try to see this slavery in a different context. There is no difference but one, NO OTHER SLAVE SYSTEM has created the damaging cycle as the Atlantic Slave Trade. West Indian poet Derek Walcott has stated his feeling that our penchant for forgetting is a defense mechanism against pain, that if we were to take a good hard look at our history, at centuries of victimization, it would be too much for us to handle and we would explode. Well I say we are exploding anyway and in many cases from bombs that are our own. We have begun the long hard road of rewriting our ancient history, of rewording our old and noble legacy. Let us not stop and get cold feet now when the enemy now appears to take on a slightly darker hue. We must however separate the two and look at the slave trade in its OWN context, complete with all the historic and psychological peculiarities that have made it the single most damaging and enduring system of exploitation and hatred ever perpetrated in the recent memory of mankind. Until we do we will not escape its legacy.
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