Proud Antifas (anti fascist).
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Proud Antifas (anti fascist).
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Elijah McCoy Black Inventor of the 1800 and 1900s
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Nixon dismissed Coretta and made Black people switch sides. 
Nixon dismissed Coretta and made Black people switch sides.
Yeah, I think he was pretty racist. IIRC Mitt Romney's father was HUD secretary under his administration and was pushing some big reforms to help black people get housing and Nixon got rid of him because of it.
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Dispelling myths about African participation in TAST.
Africans didn't sell "their people". Same way when Germany invaded Russia, they didn't invade their own people.
Europeans refused to buy produce and products from Africa, because it would compete with Euro markets.
Africans as a whole didn't practice chattel slavery nor hereditary nor permanent.
Africans didn't sell "their people". Same way when Germany invaded Russia, they didn't invade their own people.
Europeans refused to buy produce and products from Africa, because it would compete with Euro markets.
Africans as a whole didn't practice chattel slavery nor hereditary nor permanent.
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Sistah Souljah vs Tony Brown and Cornel West on Donahue
The guy in the video qualifies a lot of what he says in a way that kind of undermines his intentions in my view. He largely makes distinctions without a real difference. Okay so they sold competeing tribes people into slavery so technically no it wasn't their own people but it's rather pedantic. It also makes me wonder if we want to be that technical about the identity of the sellers and sold then why are we pushing pan african ideology now in the diaspora? It is a continent with a multitude of distinct groups, languages, and religions then as it is now.
His argument about europeans not wanting to buy other goods from them after getting slaves from them for decades is kind of a no brainer. Why would you do that when you can use the free labor to get all of that for much cheaper from your colonies in the west? It seems to me the Africans who were doing the selling didn't realize what they were losing by engaging in the flesh trade.
Lastly the point that they didn't practice chattel slavery, ok great but this talking point is easily used to excuse or downplay the impact of slavery all the time. I don't think we need to rank different versions of slavery in this way to provide cover for the perpetrators. I would recommend reading into the different classes of people in west africa such as the osun in Nigeria and look at the lasting effects of slavery on them as a group for added context.
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Samana English? The AA culture and language that survived for 200 years in the DR.