George Floyd - America so f**ked up

Without meaning to stir things up, but can someone tear the story that I keep hearing apart that the black slaves we traded in were actually rounded up and sold by other black men? I've heard this so many times.

Oldie that's a really biased answer to suit your story. They were sold to the Arabs by black African tribes. Which is hushed up in African history. Now where have I heard that before? As I continue to express, human behaviour is no different whether the skin is a different colour and to say or imply it is, is racism.

Al
For your edification.

www.dw.com/en/east-africas-forgotten-slave-trade/a-50126759

And I can assure you racism to this day is alive and kicking in the Middle East. Let's be perfectly frank, because racism is not confined to one race or skin colour (something I have asserted on this thread continuously) is no excuse for us or any less forgiveable.
Quite the opposite if we aspire to a higher ideas, which some of us do.

However, not necessarily the reasoned view of some on the BLM side as there was one of them at a recent rally  holding up a placard that said “The UK invented racism”. 

I'm glad you agree that people of all skin colours behave the same whether it's slave trading, drug dealing, violence we are all the same. BLM doesn't reflect that and gives a totally biased image which understandably a huge amount of white people resent. It will increase racism just like many other black organisations have done. Meanwhile those people who are not black or white extremists are happily living and working together. I only talk about this country because I haven't lived anywhere else. We are not Americans, we do not think or act like Americans. We are British, we welcome and enjoy diversity.

Naïve, probably. Dangerous, definitely. It's this kind of misinformation that touches the raw feelings that some people have and a group of demonstrators can get whipped up into a violent mob. It only takes someone to stand up and start spouting such false words and it starts spreading among those that want it to be true and then it becomes fact in the minds of some (reminds me of Gaschat rumours). Then one thing leads to another and shop windows start getting smashed.

Hi Bags
 It's been a problem since humans walked the earth, to start a bit back, the abolition of slaves in the uk was actually the second time slavery was banned, The people in mainly England at the time were taken by the Norse/Irish and sold into slavery in Ireland, this was then banned, so the Norse/Irish carried on taking people for some 20 years after the ban on slavery, you can look up the timelines on the net, it led to an invasion of Ireland by one of our kings ,cant remember which one.
Also it was the norm back then and for sometime after to make slaves of people captured during battles,(Religion still plays a part in the taking of slaves).

Initially tribe chiefs would swop or sell slaves for guns and alcohol  or cash, then everyone decided it would be easier to kidnap the slaves themselves, more profit, and set up slaving companies in Africa.
There are several parts of the story that is hidden but available on the net. Slaves that died on the ships were thrown into the sea, the sailors were treated a bit better as if they dies they had a short service before being hoofed into the sea, the French however used to keep the bodies in the hold of the ship(weird).
as for the abolition of slavery in the uk, a little known Bristolian called Hannah more and others constantly badgered William Wilberforce to do something to end the slave trade the upshot was it was abolished in the uk.
A freeman(name escapes me published a book which had a bearing on the abolitionist case.
Wilberforce( read up on it there's too much to put in a forum post) also had a hand in sierra leone.
A slave ship had either sunk or run aground on uk soil, under the law at the time they could not be taken into slavery as they were legally freemen, some did get stolen and became slave, this had a direct impact on some as a town called Freetown in sierra leone, which as it's name suggests was a place where freemen or escaped slaves could take sanctuary.
Some people also forget that press ganging was also slavery.

Bags that should give you enough info to look into the subject online it's a vast complex subject. You could also look into slavery in the us, slaves were owned buy presidents, there were also black freemen and women who owned slaves, in the us.

A related piece of info is on shows from the uk you occasionally see small black jockey ornaments on peoples gardens etc, these were used to inform runaway slaves that the owner of the house was part of the undergound railway which helped slave to get away.

Careful Clive
You are associating yourself with a "far left radical"
😂😂😂😂

He will never do that Oldie he's far too rational, logical and intelligent!