Africa a little 100 years ago.

[pete clemenza]

I'm talking about racial unity. If we had that, I don't believe we would have sold each other into slavery, which set the stage for colonization. Every group of people has their beefs, but you set aside beefs when there's a common enemy trying to destroy both of you.

Too much tribalism. Alot of them still beef to this very day

 

[TheSpook]

People thinking Ethiopian citizens didnt take a L is typical smart dumb coli.

"They were independent "

 

[newworldafro]

Can you imagine Africans speaking German in Kenya?

Arbitrary borders, but it is what it is.

Now they are working on an African Union....for good or bad.

 

[Emoryal]

I'm talking about racial unity. If we had that, I don't believe we would have sold each other into slavery, which set the stage for colonization. Every group of people has their beefs, but you set aside beefs when there's a common enemy trying to destroy both of you.

Not how it works. You only think like that because you feel some special way about white people now.

 

[loyola llothta]

Can you imagine Africand speaking German in Kenya?

Arbitrary borders, but it 8s what it is.

Now they are working on an African Union....for good or bad.

With least 34 US military base in africa and with the US military presence in 50 out of 54 African countries....

 

[Cobalt Sire]

Not how it works. You only think like that because you feel some special way about white people now.

That is how it works. You have a common enemy, you band together and put aside your differences..

 

[MischievousMonkey]

May this forever be a reminder of what happens when you're not united. You have to unite against a common enemy. Not war with each other even more. Not sell your people to the common enemy. The whole world was coming to destroy our ancestors, and they couldn't squash their beefs to fight the common enemy.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

If there was unity, the trans-atlantic slave trade wouldn't have happened. Africans were only united by tribes, countries, and religion. The world was trying to destroy black people, they didn't care about the details.

There were tribal lands, kingdoms and chiefdoms. saying because we didn't shape our world the same way Europeans did their means we didn't have unity is false. The world just changed and we got swept up in it and had to adapt rapidly. Trans Atlantic Slave trade applies to a minority of Africa. Yet Colonialism applied to a vast majority.

They bought and stole people and enslaved others right at home. Whatever happened was going to happen regardless. We didn't have the artillery power or the foresight to predict the level of malicious intent demons carry. There was no memo going out saying the world was trying to destroy us.

Today there is a race consciousness that didn't exist back then.

 

[Peak]

That is how it works. You have a common enemy, you band together and put aside your differences..

The white man wasn't the common enemy then, the ruling tribes were. Most of the tribal issues predate white arrival on the continent.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

And Liberia.. until the US started to fukk with it

Liberia was independent because of the US.

 

[Freedman]

May this forever be a reminder of what happens when you're not united. You have to unite against a common enemy. Not war with each other even more. Not sell your people to the common enemy. The whole world was coming to destroy our ancestors, and they couldn't squash their beefs to fight the common enemy.

Nobody did

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

exactly

this is revisionist history like brehs was just sitting and anticipating white dominance. the entire world learned the hard way.

Nobody did

 

[Secure Da Bag]

May this forever be a reminder of what happens when you're not united. You have to unite against a common enemy. Not war with each other even more. Not sell your people to the common enemy. The whole world was coming to destroy our ancestors, and they couldn't squash their beefs to fight the common enemy.

I agree with your sentiments but Africa is fukking huge; it's way, way bigger than what you see on a conventional map. Unity did exist in regions but not as a whole and by neatly drawn borders like in Europe.

Even the Europeans fought for centuries before they got there. To this day the French and English still beef from shyt centuries ago.

It wouldn't have made a difference. They didn't have guns.

Some countries weren't militarily or technologically advanced enough to stop the Europeans. Others were too into consumerism and manufacturing. For example, there was African nations who bought guns. But none who manufactured them. More importantly, none who tried. Also remember that slavery in Africa was very different than slavery in the Americas. In the Americas, it was far more cruel and brutal. Lastly, the US, China, and India can easily fit into Africa with room to spare. And that's 3 billion people.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Some countries weren't militarily or technologically advanced enough to stop the Europeans. Others were too into consumerism and manufacturing. For example, there was African nations who bought guns. But none who manufactured them. More importantly, none who tried. Also remember that slavery in Africa was very different than slavery in the Americas. Far more cruel and brutal. Lastly, the US, China, and India can easily fit into Africa with room to spare. And that's 3 billion people.

I don't wanna start comparing the levels and magnitude of suffering

other than that you on point.

 

[TEH]

May this forever be a reminder of what happens when you're not united. You have to unite against a common enemy. Not war with each other even more. Not sell your people to the common enemy. The whole world was coming to destroy our ancestors, and they couldn't squash their beefs to fight the common enemy.

The power of money.