peace and hotep,

in response to "Did we sell each other into slavery):

selassielive, that arguement is not valid because my ancestors were not captured and enslaved out of some sort of economic or social conflict in africa. my ancestors were born into an immoral 'peculiar institution'. one which the world has never known. an institution that made and held innocent children for the crimes of their fathers? they called the children chattel.

slavery was obviously different away from the native's soil. europeans never allowed for the inhereted "life" subjugation of their own children.

selling your conquered enemy was never a crime. if you can not subdue a lethal opponent you only have two options:

1. kill it
2. enslave it

but unless the child take up arms against you, there is not reason to persecute future generations. the white man's burden is to resolve the inequity produced by 'white' supremacy's mental and spiritual lapse in judgement and morality.

nothing speaks to this better than this narrative:

‘I was born about forty-five miles from the city of Richmond, in Louisa County, in the Year 1815. I entered the world a slave---in the midst of a country whose most honoured writings declare that all men have a right to liberty---but had imprinted upon my body no mark which could be made to signify that my destiny was to be that of a bondman. Neither was there any angel stood by, at the hour of my birth, to hand my body over, by the authority of heaven, to be the property of a fellow-man; no, but I was a slave because my countrymen had made it lawful, in utter contempt of the declared will of heaven, for the strong to lay hold of the weak and to by and to sell them as marketable goods, thus was I born a slave; tyrants--- remorseless, destitute of religion and every principle of humanity----stood by the couch of my mother and as I entered into the world, before I had done anything to forfeit my right to liberty, and while my soul was yet undefiled by the commission of actual sin, stretched forth their bloody arms and branded me wit the mark of bondage, and by such means I became their own property, Yes, the robbed me of myself before I could know the nature of their wicked arts, and ever afterwards---until I forcibly wrenched myself from their hands---did they retain their stolen property.” HENRY BOX BROWN----

TODAY WE MUST USE A PRODUCTIVE FORCE(FOR AFRICAN AT HOME OR ABROAD) TO WRENCH OURSELVES FROM THEIR HANDS.

freedom is a hapi slave