What Black People Loved About Slavery

[King_Kamala61]

"Religion is the one thing Black people didn't hate about slavery"

 

[Elle Seven]

Not directly related, but looking at your post reminds me of something.

My kids and I are learning about the medieval kingdoms of Africa; we are finishing up Ghana. At the end of our book's chapter, we get a quick summary of the conditions which ultimately led to Ghana's fall before the rise of Mali.

While the king of Ghana and many of Ghana's people still held their traditional spiritual beliefs, they were also having to deal with the influence of the Berbers who'd brought Islam there. The king allowed both spiritual systems to exist in his kingdom at the same time.

While the two spiritual systems existed in the kingdom together, you'll know this likely could not last because Abrahamic religions (well, I'm not sure if this applies to Judaism) requires followers to proselytize to others. Because of this setup, it makes the religion capable of being weaponized by those in leadership. Thus, it was likely never going to be a way Ghanaians were not going to have some kind of issues at this point, now that they'd let these people settle in.

In a discussion, I was asking one of them to consider all the resources that Arab leaders would need to muster to launch an attack at a country like Ghana, in terms of mobilizing the soldiers, getting them across the Sahara, feeding them, arming them, keeping them healthy and everything else that goes into financing a war.

Then I asked them how much easier it would be to launch the same war with the same people but after you'd softened them up first with religion. If half the people of the nation now has different spiritual beliefs than the other, then it benefits the conquering nation - at best because now natives will actively work in ways that help themselves be conquered or, at worst, they passively sit aside and do nothing to fight against the conquest.

Had never thought about Christianity, at least in the way it is often taught and practiced with many here in the USA, being used that way before then.

 

[King_Kamala61]

Not directly related, but looking at your post reminds me of something.

My kids and I are learning about the medieval kingdoms of Africa; we are finishing up Ghana. At the end of our book's chapter, we get a quick summary of the conditions which ultimately led to Ghana's fall before the rise of Mali.

While the king of Ghana and many of Ghana's people still held their traditional spiritual beliefs, they were also having to deal with the influence of the Berbers who'd brought Islam there. The king allowed both spiritual systems to exist in his kingdom at the same time.

While the two spiritual systems existed in the kingdom together, you'll know this likely could not last because Abrahamic religions (well, I'm not sure if this applies to Judaism) requires followers to proselytize to others. Because of this setup, it makes the religion capable of being weaponized by those in leadership. Thus, it was likely never going to be a way Ghanaians were not going to have some kind of issues at this point, now that they'd let these people settle in.

In a discussion, I was asking one of them to consider all the resources that Arab leaders would need to muster to launch an attack at a country like Ghana, in terms of mobilizing the soldiers, getting them across the Sahara, feeding them, arming them, keeping them healthy and everything else that goes into financing a war.

Then I asked them how much easier it would be to launch the same war with the same people but after you'd softened them up first with religion. If half the people of the nation now has different spiritual beliefs than the other, then it benefits the conquering nation - at best because now natives will actively work in ways that help themselves be conquered or, at worst, they passively sit aside and do nothing to fight against the conquest.

Had never thought about Christianity, at least in the way it is often taught and practiced with many here in the USA, being used that way before then.

I have and I stay preaching that shyt to black women. Truth be told what I'm fenna say isn't a bashing black woman thing, it's the truth ...black women are keeping all future black generations on the jesus treadmill.

Only a black woman talks about jesus like he is their man and he fukks them to sleep nightly.

Christianity was literally weaponized against us like Islam too.

But you can't tell a Negro nuttin...we are defeated and still spiritually enslaved.