No , i dont think its true. If yall recall from history class the Portuguise stopped in numerous ports from the North Western tip of Africa and rode all the way around the continenent to the Eastern shore. They almost universally got arrows shot at them everywhere they docked. The few times they disembarked, their own journals note that locals feared them as ghosts and bad omens.
This was the norm until they encountered some swahilii city states at war whom eagerly welcomed the Portuguise in exchange for guns. And the rest is history.
They did the exact same gameplan in the kingdom of the Kongo and even lost a few wars to locals. EVen once the slave trade began, It was entirely controlled by local africans and it stayed this way until infighting occured and guns were traded and history repeated itself.The brits and french follwed the same playbook, starting with the brits taking advantage of Morroco's war and the rest is history
It really is all about guns and divide and conquer. We were not that welcoming originally, it was a matter of them having something we needed badly for our goals.
Even with those Pawgs in the village, they were only welcomed because of the money they came with. If they entered the village and immediatley announced that they would buy no food, give no gifts, and hear no sob stories then they would be quickly evicted for loitering. Black people are effectively looking for benefits from white poeple, the exact same way they seek them from us.