Actually no one ever forgets about American slavery. What people forget is that it occurred in parallel with an almost identical situation throughout the world... including Africa.
Actually, the first references I can find to America in this thread is your post No.129 and 132
In fact, I'm having a hard time understanding why you're trying to bring America into the discussion at all, except as a way of diverting the thread, once more, to how evil white people are.
We see many countries exist today with people who were not originally there. Why should any exist?
Many countries are not recognized by enemies but there is lack of armed conflict to boot. Many of these countries simply don't talk to each other. Israel does for the most part support a 2 state solution while Hamas supports wiping Israel off the map.
Saying that the white man killed off the indiginous people is ridiculous. We are just one step in a long group of people to currently control north america. First it was (if you believe the theory) asians from china, then 'native' american indians who were distinctively different in appearance depending on what area of north america they lived in. Then the white man came, next will be the latin americans who will push aside the white man as the dominant ethnic group.
So the colors were (will be?) yellow to red to white to brown.....kind of a simplistic view, but its there none the less.
Oh, and I am waiting for your response about the ongoing slave situation in Africa, black on black. Blacks have owned more slaves than the whites have by far......
The slave trade went on for thousands of years and there are still slaves today to try and restrict it to the European enslavement of Africans which you seem to be doing is an example of bigotry and will only wash with guilty liberals.
If those civilians are aiding, housing, or supporting even as much as by failing to report the presence and activities of Palestinian terrorists, then yes; I have no problem.
The sad truth is, I just don't give a rat's ass about what happens to the Palestinians. The violence of the intafadah, or however you spell the ridiculous word, brought me to the point where I just don't care. The Israelis could move in force and exterminate them like the vermin they are tomorrow and I wouldn't bat an eyelash. I feel the same way about the Chechens ever since the school attack in Beslan.
There was a time I wanted to try and understand both the Palestinians and the Chechens. I want to know why they were angry, why they were fighting, what their causes were. I wanted to understand their culture and their history. But because of their violence, their hatred, and their lack of respect for human decency, I feel they've forfeited their own right to be treated with decency. I know longer care about their cause and whatever needs to be done to prevent them from launching another attack against civilians who are actually innocent is fine with me.
Palestinians dancing and praising their moon god after 9/11 showed me who's side they were on, even at a time when I was still sypmathetic to their cause. The realiziation that most Palestinians would just a soon see me and my family dead does not engender compassionate feelings from me. Their own barbarity has dehumanized them in my eyes and frankly, I don't care if they don't have a homeland, are treated as second-class citizens, or are run over enmass with big tanks. I just am not capable of empathizing with those people anymore and I take pleasue in seeing them suffer at an emotional level. Again, damn them and their moon god.
its called context, i am merely reminding people of some of the more unpleasent apsects of European and American history, apsects such as slavery and genocide, aspects people prefer to forget
personal attacks are against the TOS of MAP are they not, i consider being called a bigot a personal attack, i suggest you desist with personal attacks.
I have seen the argument that Africans owned slaves before, used as some sort of attempt to justify the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The fact is that slavery as traditionally practised in parts of Africa was more like the system of indentured labour which was common in parts of Europe. It bore no resemblence whatsoever to the industrial-scale slave trade practised by certain European nations using African slaves.