- More pressing than Democrats’ quest for reparations.
"...In 1856, British Army officer John Hanning Speke set out to find the source of the Nile.
Speke’s massive Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile documents the African societies he found, and the widespread practice of slavery.
- “To catch slaves is the first thought of every chief in the interior,” Speke wrote, “Hence fights and slavery impoverish the land.”
- Many Africans were “caught in wars, as may be seen every day in Africa, made slaves of, and sold to the Arabs for a few yards of common cloth, brass wire, or beads. They would then be taken to Zanzibar, resold like horses to the highest bidder, and then kept in bondage by their new masters.”
...Black Africans were not the only target for Arab slave traders.
...Mohammed did not condemn slavery, which had been standard practice in Africa centuries before any European set foot there.
So contrary to the composite character president, the “original sin” of slavery was not America’s.
Leftist Democrats, so eager to condemn the United States, seem unaware that slavery continues in African nations such as Mauritania, where as much as 20 percent of the population is enslaved...
... Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson that America, while flawed in race relations is “now the least racist white-majority society in the world; has a better record of legal protection of minorities than any other society, white or Black; offers more opportunities to a greater number of Black persons than any other society, including all those of Africa.”...Read all.
