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BigGuy2 you could go further back in time and query why BLACK PEOPLE {along with the Arabs} STARTED Slavery in the 1st place
To say “Black people started it” is historically inaccurate. Africans were among the people enslaved and also, in some regions, participated in capturing others, often under pressure or incentives from European traders. But the scale and brutality of chattel slavery in the Americas was designed, financed, and industrialized by European powers.
Stories like an older woman getting lynched, pale into insignificance
Saying lynching “pales into insignificance” erases the terror that kept Black communities oppressed long after “slavery ended.” Lynching wasn’t isolated, it was systemic, meant to enforce white supremacy and undo the supposed “freedom” Black people gained.
Slavery has existed across many cultures, but the transatlantic system was created and scaled by European powers. Africans didn’t ‘start’ it.
it was the WHITE MAN that STOPPED Slavery, 1st by the British in 1833, then America in 1864
And while Britain and the U.S. legally ended slavery, it wasn’t out of white benevolence, it was after centuries of resistance, revolts, and abolitionist work, much of it led by Black people themselves.
Lynching and racial terror weren’t insignificant footnotes, they were part of how white supremacy tried to keep power even after abolition.
