01-07-2014, 06:04 PM
Quote]Originally posted by seventhreads
......you know, in africa, sometimes people there die of many different causes. it could be malaria, a hippo attack, you name it. so while it is true that anywhere from 5-50 million africans perished in the atlantic slave trade, that same amount would have eventually died of natural causes had they stayed on the african continent!
I readily admit that whatever point you are trying to make eludes me. You do realize that, numerically, there is a huge difference between 5 and 50 million anything including Africans. To actually believe that millions between the ranges you provided have perished due to hippo attack is incredulous and strange.
If you are somehow attempting to equate, or justify, the number of people who died in such a miserable fashion in route to an indefensible system of hell on earth because approximately the same amount of people would have probably died partially due to hippo attack if they stayed in Africa anyway - did you really think that one through?
I agree with one of the previous posters who advised you not to share your views with Native Hawaiians. I would suggest that you take that advice to heart and broaden it to include most living people, people of color and specifically the descendents of American slaves like me.
......you know, in africa, sometimes people there die of many different causes. it could be malaria, a hippo attack, you name it. so while it is true that anywhere from 5-50 million africans perished in the atlantic slave trade, that same amount would have eventually died of natural causes had they stayed on the african continent!
I readily admit that whatever point you are trying to make eludes me. You do realize that, numerically, there is a huge difference between 5 and 50 million anything including Africans. To actually believe that millions between the ranges you provided have perished due to hippo attack is incredulous and strange.
If you are somehow attempting to equate, or justify, the number of people who died in such a miserable fashion in route to an indefensible system of hell on earth because approximately the same amount of people would have probably died partially due to hippo attack if they stayed in Africa anyway - did you really think that one through?
I agree with one of the previous posters who advised you not to share your views with Native Hawaiians. I would suggest that you take that advice to heart and broaden it to include most living people, people of color and specifically the descendents of American slaves like me.