The Atlantic slave trade is not singled out because other slavery didn't exist.
It is singled out because it built the world we currently live in.
The financial institutions.
The insurance markets.
The shipping routes.
The racial categories.
The colonial borders.
The wealth distribution between continents that still defines the global economy today.
The Atlantic slave trade is not studied with particular intensity because historians are biased.
It is studied with particular intensity because its consequences are not historical.
They are present.
You don't single it out to assign ancient blame.
You examine it to understand current reality.
The reason your argument wants to dissolve that specificity into universal human wickedness is precisely because universal human wickedness requires nothing from anyone today.
Specific, traceable, present consequences do.
Had to Gas up the Jet 🛩️ To PERSONALLY see FAMU’s @TheMarching100 who killed the #PullOverChallenge 🤯🤯 BUT which college is NEXT?? Tag them in the comment section! 🥁🏎️💨
The University of Missouri has stripped its historic Black student governing body, as well as at least four other minority affinity groups, of all annual designated funding starting in July
"Mizzou has been the canary in the mine"
https://t.co/s8ixqsNnNQ
As @JayBilas correctly points out, there’s a lot of hypocrisy in college athletics right now.
It’s only when athletes begin to get paid that it’s necessary to have a federal law to “save college sports.”