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    The New Yorker‏Verified account @NewYorker Jul 27

    "My great-grandfather, the Nigerian slave-trader": http://nyer.cm/Wz4V59w pic.twitter.com/P7HWmKVCpm

    7:05 PM - 27 Jul 2018
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      2.  👁️‏ @FemiAbodunde Jul 27
        Replying to @NewYorker

        This headline is terrible. because it’s demand that drives slave trade, not the supplier. Humans who were ok using, raping and killing other humans in name of capitalism. If there was no demand for this horror, there would have been no supply, suppliers would have been hung.

        1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
      3. Karl Temple‏ @ktemple9 Jul 27
        Replying to @FemiAbodunde @NewYorker

        You do understand that inter-tribe slavery existed for centuries prior to the start of the Atlantic slave trade... and in parts of North Africa, it exists to this day. I hope you know that.

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Emmanuel Tavares‏ @vetemoms Jul 27
        Replying to @ktemple9 @FemiAbodunde @NewYorker

        i hope you understand the critical concepts of volume and scope.

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      5. Karl Temple‏ @ktemple9 Jul 27
        Replying to @vetemoms @FemiAbodunde @NewYorker

        I’m sure that’s of great comfort to those people currently enslaved in Africa. 🙄

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. Nick Preston‏ @Nick_Preston Jul 27
        Replying to @NewYorker

        There wouldn't have been Nigerian Slave traders without the demand for Slaves. It's incredibly naive to suggest these people weren't reacting to the situation

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      3. nigel  🇺🇸 🇳🇬 🇪🇸 S ⬆️2C‏ @PianoDeUtah Jul 27
        Replying to @Nick_Preston @NewYorker

        You need to not comment on a culture you know nothing about.

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      4. Emmanuel Tavares‏ @vetemoms Jul 27
        Replying to @PianoDeUtah @Nick_Preston @NewYorker

        this is a pretty generic and applicable statement about economics. it’s not specific to culture. it’s laughable and telling you say someone knows nothing about a subject and elitist/racist to gatekeep on educational grounds.

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      1. Desmond Orr‏ @DesmondOrr Jul 27
        Replying to @NewYorker

        There was no place known as Nigeria until the British conquest. This tale, while I assume full of at least half truths, is also replete with nonsense.

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      2. Michael Stevens‏ @mstevnz Jul 27
        Replying to @NewYorker

        @uilabila Apropos of what you mentioned before about Samoan burials

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      3. Teuila Faleuila‏ @uilabila Jul 27
        Replying to @mstevnz @NewYorker

        Thanks for this, quite a few similarities

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1.  👁️‏ @FemiAbodunde Jul 27
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        https://twitter.com/femiabodunde/status/1014122200809529346?s=21 …

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        ✔We have to change the world, for real. ✔The leaders, the systems and the mindsets needs to change. ✔This will happen via attrition - it has already started.. 🙌End of story, that is the volatility coming. Greatest period of change in human history headed our way. Amen.📿
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      1.  👁️‏ @FemiAbodunde Jul 27
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        If you look across the world today, anywhere there's #wealth was originally built on the back of #slavery & #convict #labor #LetsBeHonest
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      1.  👁️‏ @FemiAbodunde Jul 27
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         👁️ @FemiAbodunde
        It forces us to face certain truths. Otherwise it's like we are just hallucinating, and there's consequences for hallucinating in real life markets, espc in the late stages of a capitalist cycle, & as we begin a newer journey that will be more inclusive. We must face reality.
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      1.  👁️‏ @FemiAbodunde Jul 27
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        😓The hardcore truth¿ ➡Slavery is the labor that created global wealth over thousands of years....slavery, brutality, horror...sheer disregard for human rights all throughout history. The truth hurts.
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      1.  👁️‏ @FemiAbodunde Jul 27
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        https://twitter.com/femiabodunde/status/1012631246659342337?s=21 …

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        ✔Thinking gold and silver created the wealth the world has today has led to false conclusions about international commerce. A system that's broken today.
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      1.  👁️‏ @FemiAbodunde Jul 27
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        ✔Smith is writing 'against' one of the most basic tenets of business ✔Business & Political leaders are often confused about how value and wealth have been created in history.
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      1.  👁️‏ @FemiAbodunde Jul 27
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         👁️ @FemiAbodunde
        Wealth of Nations (@ASI ) is simply a representation of the birth of free-market economics. It is not without fault, but most modern free market economists point to its basic principles as a starting point for refining free market capitalism in modern day terms.
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      1. RiversideKitty‏ @OnTheHudsonNYC Jul 27
        Replying to @NewYorker

        eyes wide open

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