Not according to Steven Spielberg…

As I understand it, while the movie ends with him sailing back to Africa, in real life, he moved to the West Indies and traded in slaves himself, so, yeah.

There is debate over this, however. I’m not sure I trust the University of Oklahoma, since such organizations can clearly have a great big axe to grind when it comes to this sort of thing. I’d want to know a lot more about the author’s background and academic honesty.

If true, though, it also puts paid to this claim:
> Excuses run the gamut, from “Africans didn’t know how harsh slavery in America was”

Clearly, he did. Indeed — far more so than any white man. And yet he still chose to engage in it.

“North African” has significant overlap with “Moslem,” BTW. Perhaps the most enslaving people in the history of the world – and there’s significant competition for that dishonor.

Seriously though, my Armenian parent is still mad at the ottoman empire…

Also, isn’t Britain still mad about being invaded by the Romans?

It’s been about four hundred years since the slave trade came to what became the United States. Christian persecution of Jews stretches back about four times that long. So any Christians reading this weblog who feel guilty enough over the slave trade to support reparations for American blacks…you owe me first.

Check is fine but I prefer cash.

And by the way, we’ve already had decades of reparations. Affirmative action as it developed, minority set-sides by government and private business, scholarships to universities and expensively-funded support programs for such students…African-American “themed” dormitories…lots more. Why doesn’t this count?

Man accused of duping Harvard pleads not guilty

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/18/delaware-man-accused-duping-harvard-pleads-guilty/?test=latestnews

“Just as Europeans enslaved Africans, North Africans enslaved Europeans; more Europeans than there were Africans enslaved in the United States and in the 13 colonies from which it was formed.

The treatment of white galley slaves was even worse than the treatment of black slaves picking cotton. But there are no movies or television dramas about it comparable to Roots, and our schools and colleges don’t pound it into the heads of students.”

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-sowell_02edi.State.Edition1.284716c.html

So, when are we going to get our reparations from North Africa?

It’s still bad, sayeth Skippy. But I, too, will grant you honkies absolution if it will get me what it did Barack.