This tweet spot on about the teaching of slavery

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

 

[luciddreamer]

You're just gonna hear the same useless rhetoric as always...

"Africans sold their own people..."
"We were once slaves too"

Wash rinse repeat.....

 

[invalid]

You're just gonna hear the same useless rhetoric as always...

"Africans sold their own people..."
"We were once slaves too"

Wash rinse repeat.....

Africans practiced slavery as well.

See the Igbo Osu, Ohu, and Ume systems.

Slavery among the Igbo | AHA

 

[Doobie Doo]

You're just gonna hear the same useless rhetoric as always...

"Africans sold their own people..."
"We were once slaves too"

Wash rinse repeat.....

That just reinforces what the OP is saying because that useless rhetoric comes from white people who don't really expound on the differences between American and African slavery.

 

[brandy]

I wholeheartedly agree. We never really discuss how white folks crafted and revise the narrative around slavery, as well as how they fabricated their authority and superiority.