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    The New Yorker‏Verified account @NewYorker Aug 17

    "African intellectuals tend to blame the West for the slave trade, but I knew that white traders couldn’t have loaded their ships without help from Africans like my great-grandfather," Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani writes.http://nyer.cm/UvaGzKg 

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      1. Tiago‏ @gatola_j Aug 17
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        Yeah like the moment slaves were no longer in the hand of African traders they had the Bill of Rights read to them, were given hugs and kisses, in the name of the intense humanistic values of the society which welcomed them with arms wide open.

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      1. Elnora Butler‏ @ButlerElnora Aug 17
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        There are always people who will betray their own people. Know this though-- without the market for slaves, there would be no trade. I know your disappointment is great. But lineage doesn't make the man -- character does.

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      1. JAYLOCK‏ @CarltonChilemb1 Aug 17
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        He has been whitewashed in believing that blacks helped in the slave trade....blacks fought those slavers and they where simply defeated

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      2. Cindy B‏ @CindyB13723 Aug 17
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        As repugnant as slavery is, you have to look at it through the lens of supply and demand. If there was no demand, slave trading would not have occurred.

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      1. Cecily Winter‏ @winter_cecily Aug 17
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        There's not a lot of innocence in play when it comes down to humankind's willingness to profit from the vulnerable these past few thousands of years.

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      1. J’aime Noel Badami (nee Mount)‏ @Jayenemi Aug 17
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        That’s not a commonly shared viewpoint though it’s probably more painfully honest and accurate than most would like to accept. Kudos to the author for being so objective about a very awful place in time.

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      1. vikas‏ @vikas6th Aug 17
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        Well said : difficult words to say. No colony cd b exploited without such willing or forced collaboration.

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      1. Peter S.‏ @psciao Aug 17
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        Actually, it’s an issue no longer relevant to today’s world. Except of course, for the exploitation and commercial value to certain peoples.

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      1. Magic Pants‏ @TheMagicPants Aug 17
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        He really got the short end of the stick, facing discrimination for being black and the historic guilt of being white

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