this post really is meant as a reply to bread fruit the mod but also applies to shemsi and the Psychopathic remark


There is a difference between acknowledging the struggles of acceptance that many Africans feel they deserve from white people/ the world, And acknowledging the effects your current environment has had on you, and the way it has determined all of us for good or ill.

And I had to make the title of pros/ cons slavery short. I couldn’t have said for example:

What are the effects, the legacy of slavery for good or ill, has had in the formation of who you are today… could I ?

And I’m sorry but you can be objective about slavery. Not one person here was born a slave… The problems of Africans today has more to do Europeans and indeed, all humans natural ‘fear of the other’ of any thing different. The reason people like Anthony walker had an axe in his head or Stephen Lawrence was murdered was because of simple hatred, plane and simple. Those sorts of people were naturally violent and already filled with hate, hate for any thing different….


I see black kids on the streets fighting at three o’clock in the morning and that’s not to do with slavery. That’s to do with dead beat fathers( here today gone tomorrow), mothers that are incapable…