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Oh goodness!😱 I just realized that descendants of slaves were made to pay their former owners for their freedom. In 1833 when Britain so-called abolished slavery, they took out huge loans from the world's biggest banks to pay slaveowners and pushed the debt on the people who paid it via taxes for about 180 years - ending in 2015. Essentially, the slaves paid reparations to their enslavers. 🤯 All the hypocritical somersaults these folks are doing to avoid culpability points solidly to one thing: We're not quite human enough.

@ma_smells Treating what king of Dahomey said as approval of the slave trade is, putting it mildly, unfair. Dahomey was trapped. By the time Ghezo spoke, Dahomey was firmly embedded in a system where European demand for slaves and the supply of guns had restructured the entire region. They had been compelled to refashion their entire economy around slave trade because, like I showed elsewhere, the European slave traders didn't simply say "awww, no problem" and turn back if you didn't sell them slave. Because they came to trade guns and other weapons for slaves, when rejected, they either deposed or assassinated the kings and replaced them with compliant ones that kept the 'goods' flowing or armed rival kingdoms with superior weapons to raid and sell you.

@la_matatona @CryptoMuse01 If Ghana gets money not a single thing in their country would change except that their leader would have a new car and probably a new mansion

This summarizes the most self-destructive analysis on transatlantic slavery I have ever seen. It contains a straw man, gaslighting, victim blaming, and historical erasure dressed up as tough love. The straw man: you reduced a demand for accountability for industrialized, race‑based chattel slavery and colonialism to “blaming Europeans for inventing slavery.” No serious person argues that Europeans invented slavery or that they should be held responsible for slavery everywhere. The gaslighting: you frame centuries of violent extraction - the slave trade, colonial plunder, imposed borders, continent-wide structural adjustment - as a mere “excuse” for African failure, as if the continent’s development occurred in a vacuum untouched by the powers now refusing to vote yes on a UN resolution. The victim blaming: you point to African intermediaries as if that transfers full moral responsibility onto the enslaved and their descendants, while ignoring who held and supplied the guns, the ships, the banks, the plantations, and the political power that made the system global. And the historical erasure? You omitted that right after slavery, came colonialism, after colonialism, came debt traps and IMF austerity; a continuous chain of external extraction that your “self‑actualization” narrative conveniently pretends never happened. If self‑actualization is the goal, then the first step is acknowledging the actual historical barriers, not dismissing them as an excuse. "Britain paid around 20 million pounds to free all slaves. The (sic) only fully paid the loan this 2015." Who did they pay it to? Slave owners! They were compensated for losing their property. The slaves received nothing - only forced labour under another name. Britain made their commoners who probably didn't own slaves pay rich fucks who did and you called it 'freeing the slaves'? Britain soldiers died equalizing the transatlantic slave trade, making sure others were not selling and buying slaves and gaining advantage over them. They basically used abolition as a tool to entrench geopolitical dominance - it was not a display of penitence or morality.

@Phay305 @lekan_olayinka1 🤣🤣

@CryptoMuse01 @lekan_olayinka1 PoC. "Some Africans" especially the ones who're malnourished from birth making their brains deficient in critical thinking so they tend to be easily persuaded. It'll gets better with time though.

90% of all the Africans that were enslaved were raided, captured, and delivered to the Europeans BY AFRICANS. Before that, Africans had sold 10 million Africans to the Arabs during the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade. The Arabs castrated their slaves. Holding Europeans “accountable” for slavery is gravely misguided, and another attempt to fabricate an illusion of existential excuse for the consistent self-inflicted failure of Africans to self actualize. Europeans didn’t invent slavery. Humans invented slavery. Egyptians had slaves. Babylonians had slaves. Persians had slaves. Greeks had slaves. Romans had slaves. The English had slaves. Africans had slaves. Humans were the first exchanged good amongst humans. But slavery didn’t remain after the Europeans. Britain abolished slavery. Britain lost around 2,000 naval officers on the sea enforcing abolition laws on African rulers who kept enslaving. Britain paid around 20 million pounds to free all slaves. The only fully paid the loan this 2015. No one should pay reparations for slavery. It is not the sin of any one group. Africans shouldn’t use an event that occurred 400 years ago as an excuse for lack of self actualization.

@Phay305 @lekan_olayinka1 The most painful part of this is the psychological blackmail that they used to reverse-engineer the narrative that helped them recruit Africans to their defense.

@CryptoMuse01 @lekan_olayinka1 Look at that. The selective criticism and emotional outburst from them on this is not surprising. Such a shameless individuals

@Hrhuffinstuff69 Chai!

@CryptoMuse01 So they still kept one very lucrative strand of their slaving empire alive and then just pivoted to colonialism to reclaim the other strand.

East Africans, not West Africans are the biggest victims of the Arab slave trade. They are speaking out too but west Africans have more social leverage than them, so our voice is louder. Secondly, the West is the world's predominant culture and power, so joining issues with them will get more attention globally. On the issue of ending slave trade: The British did pay reparations... to the slave owners. Not the slaves. They made their taxpayers offset the reparations till 2015. Yes, that recently. It was not good conscience, penitence or morality that made Britain fight against the slave trade. It was becoming increasingly unprofitable to sustain because of constant slave revolts, dropping prices of sugar, increasing costs of insuring slave ships, etc. The Haitians successfully revolted and ended slavery, setting what may be a very dangerous precedent for slave colonies and the enslaved. I beg you to listen to the other side in this debate and you'll find that our worldview has been intentionally misshapened by the one-sided distortion of the history of the transatlantic slave trade.

East Africans, not West Africans are the biggest victims of the Arab slave trade. They are speaking out too but west Africans have more social leverage than them, so our voice is louder. Secondly, the West is the world's predominant culture and power, so joining issues with them will get more attention globally. On the issue of ending slave trade: The British did pay reparations... to the slave owners. Not the slaves. They made their taxpayers offset the reparations till 2015. Yes, that recently. It was not good conscience, penitence or morality that made Britain fight against the slave trade. It was becoming increasingly unprofitable to sustain because of constant slave revolts, dropping prices of sugar, increasing costs of insuring slave ships, etc. The Haitians successfully revolted and ended slavery, setting what may be a very dangerous precedent for slave colonies and the enslaved. I beg you to listen to the other side in this debate and you'll find that our worldview has been intentionally misshapened by the one-sided distortion of the history of the transatlantic slave trade.

@lekan_olayinka1 Arabs in North Africa still buy & sell slaves and they do nothing about it But it’s the people that ended slavery and went into debt coz of it that should still pay reparations If only their ancestors were castrated like the Arab slaves, they wouldn’t even exist to ask for £1

@Phay305 @lekan_olayinka1 In fact they just finished paying in 2015! Britain paid reparations. Only that they paid it to the slaveowners, not the enslaved themselves.

@lekan_olayinka1 Slavery “When Britain abolished slavery in its colonies in 1834, it made sure slave owners, NOT the enslaved, were compensated” what does that mean to you? Prof Lwazi Lushaba

@h2o360 @lekan_olayinka1 Thank you ❤️

@CryptoMuse01 @lekan_olayinka1 There's a huge difference between a we'll informed person and a person that, believes he knows, all because he, speaks the language of the colonial master fluently. Nice write up you've done your best to, inform uninformed mind.

@yeleywale @ugonnnna Honestly, slavery is an ancient atrocity. People have been slaves and enslavers for all recorded history. When people would go to war, they'd plunder and loot - pack men and women as slaves.

@ugonnnna @CryptoMuse01 There wasn’t slave trade in Africa prior to the 1500s when the Portuguese arrived. Most African history that stems from slavery are told in the last 500 years when the symbol of wealth and power shifted to slavery.

Exactly! They built an empire off slavery, and when it became too inconvenient to maintain, they paid themselves to stop. And commoners who didn't own slaves were made to offset their 'losses' for generations. They turned around and made it sound like they grew a conscience. And the African bought it. These people slid ever so slyly from open slavery and to colonialism. They were like "...instead of just packing and importing the people, why not own the entire continent: slaves, cocoa, timber, good and all. Plus, we could teach them that were the good guys and they're the bad guys - rape them agriculturally, materially, financially and psychologically" And that's what they did. Today, literate sons and daughters of Africa have been taught to hate themselves and their forebears.

Exactly! They built an empire off slavery, and when it became too inconvenient to maintain, they paid themselves to stop. And commoners who didn't own slaves were made to offset their 'losses' for generations. They turned around and made it sound like they grew a conscience. And the African bought it. These people slid ever so slyly from open slavery and to colonialism. They were like "...instead of just packing and importing the people, why not own the entire continent: slaves, cocoa, timber, good and all. Plus, we could teach them that were the good guys and they're the bad guys - rape them agriculturally, materially, financially and psychologically" And that's what they did. Today, literate sons and daughters of Africa have been taught to hate themselves and their forebears.

@CryptoMuse01 The slave owners effectively paid themselves to stop slaving and then gave the bill for compensation, which they had calculated themselves, to the non voting proletariat.

@gman1671 Thank you, fam.

@CryptoMuse01 Great writing brother 🔥

One very bitter irony in these reparations talks is that Britain essentially paid reparations till 2015. Only that they paid it to slaveowners, not the slaves. In a self-crippling paradox, they acknowledged that slavery constituted a significant economic booster for the slaveowners but turn around and denied (and continue to do so) that it caused lasting economic harm to the enslaved and their descendants. So, they paid slaveowners. Guess what they gave the now so-called 'freed' people... Guess! Another type of slavery. They called it apprenticeship, but it was really indentured servitude. The slaveowners were paid for the loss of their slaves. But the so-called 'freed' slaves were made to continue working for them for free. So today, when you claim that modern generations are not culpable for the slavery and therefore not responsible for the reparations, remember that they made taxpayers pay reparations to the oppressors till 2015. Remember that what the West is today was built off the back of slaves. Mò n bọ̀ ná

You're welcome, bro. I used to say the things these guys say too, especially when I was listening to a lot of Republican thinkers. But it's what Chimamanda called the ' danger of the single story'. The rhetoric has stripped history of nuance and told the story from the European perspective exclusively.

@CryptoMuse01 @lekan_olayinka1 This is a valid point and the difference is clear because as Africans we know - for a fact - how the western nations have actively worked hard to undermine our "self actualization" and they various tools they utilized in accomplishing this Thanks again for your points

@Ifeoluwa_x If you are able to, drop invectives, jé ká fó respectfully and let's hear each other out. Because ó ṣe, kò ṣe, we are both Nigerians and God forbid bad thing, if the shit hits the fan, we're very likely all we've got.

Oponu eda

This summarizes the most self-destructive analysis on transatlantic slavery I have ever seen. It contains a straw man, gaslighting, victim blaming, and historical erasure dressed up as tough love. The straw man: you reduced a demand for accountability for industrialized, race‑based chattel slavery and colonialism to “blaming Europeans for inventing slavery.” No serious person argues that Europeans invented slavery or that they should be held responsible for slavery everywhere. The gaslighting: you frame centuries of violent extraction - the slave trade, colonial plunder, imposed borders, continent-wide structural adjustment - as a mere “excuse” for African failure, as if the continent’s development occurred in a vacuum untouched by the powers now refusing to vote yes on a UN resolution. The victim blaming: you point to African intermediaries as if that transfers full moral responsibility onto the enslaved and their descendants, while ignoring who held and supplied the guns, the ships, the banks, the plantations, and the political power that made the system global. And the historical erasure? You omitted that right after slavery, came colonialism, after colonialism, came debt traps and IMF austerity; a continuous chain of external extraction that your “self‑actualization” narrative conveniently pretends never happened. If self‑actualization is the goal, then the first step is acknowledging the actual historical barriers, not dismissing them as an excuse. "Britain paid around 20 million pounds to free all slaves. The (sic) only fully paid the loan this 2015." Who did they pay it to? Slave owners! They were compensated for losing their property. The slaves received nothing - only forced labour under another name. Britain made their commoners who probably didn't own slaves pay rich fucks who did and you called it 'freeing the slaves'? Britain soldiers died equalizing the transatlantic slave trade, making sure others were not selling and buying slaves and gaining advantage over them. They basically used abolition as a tool to entrench geopolitical dominance - it was not a display of penitence or morality.

@lekan_olayinka1 There’s no amount of gaslighting of victims fomented by your paymasters will erase the atrocities organized by a structured govt, Africans sold slaves,yes. Through War and Conquest but not by an Organized Syndicate sponsored by “Democratic government” to cut cost on plantations

This summarizes the most self-destructive analysis on transatlantic slavery I have ever seen. It contains a straw man, gaslighting, victim blaming, and historical erasure dressed up as tough love. The straw man: you reduced a demand for accountability for industrialized, race‑based chattel slavery and colonialism to “blaming Europeans for inventing slavery.” No serious person argues that Europeans invented slavery or that they should be held responsible for slavery everywhere. The gaslighting: you frame centuries of violent extraction - the slave trade, colonial plunder, imposed borders, continent-wide structural adjustment - as a mere “excuse” for African failure, as if the continent’s development occurred in a vacuum untouched by the powers now refusing to vote yes on a UN resolution. The victim blaming: you point to African intermediaries as if that transfers full moral responsibility onto the enslaved and their descendants, while ignoring who held and supplied the guns, the ships, the banks, the plantations, and the political power that made the system global. And the historical erasure? You omitted that right after slavery, came colonialism, after colonialism, came debt traps and IMF austerity; a continuous chain of external extraction that your “self‑actualization” narrative conveniently pretends never happened. If self‑actualization is the goal, then the first step is acknowledging the actual historical barriers, not dismissing them as an excuse. "Britain paid around 20 million pounds to free all slaves. The (sic) only fully paid the loan this 2015." Who did they pay it to? Slave owners! They were compensated for losing their property. The slaves received nothing - only forced labour under another name. Britain made their commoners who probably didn't own slaves pay rich fucks who did and you called it 'freeing the slaves'? Britain soldiers died equalizing the transatlantic slave trade, making sure others were not selling and buying slaves and gaining advantage over them. They basically used abolition as a tool to entrench geopolitical dominance - it was not a display of penitence or morality. @JayMacron2233

@lekan_olayinka1 Post your sources... I'm trying to see something