Why did blacks allow themselves to be enslaved and now today complain about it?

[Yuna]

Why were they not able to prevent the slave masters from enslaving them? There were no "evil white men" before that to hold back their development.

I'm still waiting for a real answer. I have time and I check back.

[Near]

I think I remember reading something about Africans enslaving each other through a competition where the loser becomes the winner's slave, and some sold them.

[SquareOne]

Go to hell.

[jendawg]

Damn thats a good one. Hats off.

[rthimble]

Do you really think that any one can really answer that question? They don't know what went on then any more than we do ! This is a ridiculous question.

[Retta]

You know it's people like you who make the human race look bad! Do us all a favor, and shut the hell up! Allow themselves to be enslaved, who have you been listening to?

[StephenJ]

Empathy : 2: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner ; also : the capacity for this.

© 1993 by Robert D. Hare, PhD.

Symptoms of Psychopaths :

Interpersonal traits :

• Glib and superficial
• Egocentric and grandiose
• Lack of remorse or guilt
• Lack of EMPATHY
• Deceitful and manipulative
• Shallow emotions

[mustalaf]

We all, blacks and whites, happily ignore the irrefutable fact that American blacks are living a life 80% of the worlds people would kill for. Nowhere else on earth comes even close. There are no "slaves" in this country, and it was white men who abolished the practice. Since then the direct support of it's descendants alone has amounted to trillions of dollars, and even now still continues at a rate of nearly $15,000,000 per hour. We don't need Rush Limbaugh to tell us something is wrong with this picture. Political correctness is threatening to sever this nations jugular, then who's going to support those who refuse to support themselves. Don't try to make me liable for the actions of people who've been dead for over a hundred years unless you're also going to make the descendants of the murderers rapists and robbers liable for their fathers actions also.

[RagingBull]

If you meant before, "the white man" was superbly armed and well trained, Triangular Trade. They had no shot, same thing with the Conquistas of the America, the gun, a powerful tool.

[BumfuqaNorthCarolina]

Please take Square One's advice.

You're a joke.