First off, the only reason I even saw this is because John replied to this pinhead. To wit, the pinhead wrote: > Walk down the street. You will notice that black Americans generally have smaller heads, reflecting smaller brains.. You'd have to be a moron ... ie. Pinhead, to actually believe that. My large jewish nose (sic) can smell the stench of this human shitpile all the way across cyberspace. Rr -------- Original message -------- From: John Newman Date: 2/15/18 8:27 PM (GMT-08:00) To: jamesd@echeque.com Cc: cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: AFRICAN HISTORY MONTH > On Feb 12, 2018, at 4:00 PM, jamesd@echeque.com wrote: > >> On 11/02/2018 11:21, John Newman wrote: >> Are you being purposely disingenuous? There were obviously also raiding parties and >> the sale of “prisoners of war” between and within different black Africans themselves, > > Dramatic, but atypical. > > Enslavement on the basis of war was generally result of pacification campaigns, rather than "slave raids" - kings enslaved those who were persistently causing them trouble, with the objective of deterring troublemakers and getting rid of them. As, for example, the Irish. > > And most enslavement was not on the basis of war. It was more typically for petty theft, particularly stealing from one's employer, and vagrancy. (Not having visible means of support.) > >> divisions exploited by European slavers anxious to fill the gaping maw hungry for free >> labor to subsidize the colonization and exploitation of the “new world”. > > Slavery was driven by supply, rather than demand. It was a way of dealing with problem people. And Africa had, and still has, more problem people. > You are so full of shit. Conversation with scum like yourself is utterly pointless. Slavery was driven by a SLAVE ECONOMY, which was obviously driven by demand. Do you actually believe the bullshit you spout? > Walk down the street. You will notice that black Americans generally have smaller heads, reflecting smaller brains. Thus require more supervision, and are less apt to voluntarily accept supervision. > > People who need supervision, and are disinclined to accept it, cause problems. Slavery was a way of dealing with those problems.