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-Great Cultural Revolution

Only 'White People' Ever Enslaved Others, Says Black Professor

2023-08-11

[American Thinker] In a recent article, we considered the claims of Brittney Cooper, a professor at Rutgers University. She believes that all "white people," whom she also refers to as "m------------" who are "committed to being villains" — in a word, racists — need to be "taken out."

One of her arguments is that, whenever non-whites try to have a "reckoning" with whites, the latter say, "It's just human nature. If y'all had all of this power, you would have done the same thing," right?

To this, Cooper insists,

No, that's what white humans did, white human beings thought there's a world here and we own it. Prior to them, black and brown people have been sailing across oceans, interacting with each other for centuries without total subjugation, domination and colonialism, right?

This must be the professor's most ignorant of claims — which is saying much — that non-whites somehow behaved with more tolerance and civility whenever they landed on the shores of others.

While we don't necessarily have historical records of black sub-Saharans "sailing across oceans," we do know that they savagely warred on and enslaved one another. It is enough to point out that, as Michael Omolewa, a Nigerian diplomat, once did:

[T]he bulk of the supply [of African slaves sold to Europeans] came from the Nigerians. These Nigerian middlemen moved to the interior where they captured other Nigerians who belonged to other communities. ... Many Nigerian middlemen began to depend totally on the slave trade and neglected every other business and occupation. The result was that when the trade was abolished [by England in 1807] these Nigerians began to protest. As years went by and the trade collapsed such Nigerians lost their sources of income and became impoverished.

These are not just historical observations. Despite Western efforts to abolish slavery, there are currently more than 50 million slaves — all of them in the non-Western world. To quote from one report,

Posted by:Besoeker

#28

Posted by: Bertie Lover of the Veps3067 2023-08-11 23:27

#27 No offense, Brit-Brit. I'd be angry, too.

Posted by: Bertie Lover of the Veps3067 2023-08-11 22:56

#26 An angry young lady of Ruston
Whose butt's 'bout to bust the world's crust in
Had best gone to Tech
And played tackle, but, heck,
After roamin' she's just an Augustan.

Posted by: Bertie Lover of the Veps3067 2023-08-11 22:51

#25 I figure she'd dress out at about 250 pounds.

Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2023-08-11 21:14

#24 his RACIST or Mega Dumba$$ embrace the power of AND.

Posted by: AlanC 2023-08-11 17:56

#23 NK and China slavery actually involves organ harvesting which we only do for fetuses if the money is right. That probably put them on a level of evil similar to the Canaanite’s and Aztecs.

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-08-11 16:29

#22 It's "mostly free" slavery in the rest of the world. It's slavery slavery for evah in the USA even though we haven't had it since 1863 de jure and a bit later de facto.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-08-11 16:18

#21 NN2N1, but that's not slavery slavery, like America had. Which was the worst slavery in history. And was invented in 1619 when slaves were brought to America.

Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2023-08-11 16:12

#20 Top 15 Countries with the Highest Prevalence of Modern Slavery

India
China
North Korea
Nigeria
Iran
Indonesia
Congo (Democratic Republic of)
Russia
Philippines
Afghanistan
Mauritania
Sudan
Libya
Egypt
South Africa

Hummmm!
I do not see ANY Western Europe Nations, nor the USA Listed?

But I do see some Africa, mid-eastern, Islamic, and 3 Communist Nations listed ?????

Posted by: NN2N1 2023-08-11 15:49

#19 I figure she's not the first professor to say that, so I guess that makes her guilty of plagiarism, in addition to stupidity.

Posted by: Bobby 2023-08-11 14:44

#18 Affirmative Action

Posted by: Frank G 2023-08-11 14:35

#17 how does an ignorant person get to be a professor?

Posted by: irish rage boy 2023-08-11 13:55

#16 Federal Student Loan Program finances this bullsh!t. Low IQ academics are paid to shovel the sh!t around.

Posted by: Enver Dingle4916 2023-08-11 13:47

#15 Uh, does the name Mansa Musa ring a bell?

Posted by: Cesare 2023-08-11 13:25

#14 They would sell her today in Libya. Wouldn’t have many interested buyers but they would sell her.

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-08-11 12:21

#13 There's no reasoning with zombies

Posted by: Rex Mundi 2023-08-11 10:59

#12 So are eating utensils and buffets, apparently.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-08-11 10:43

#11 Gravity is rayyycissss

Posted by: Frank G 2023-08-11 10:39

#10 Carnival Barker for The Black Plantation.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-08-11 10:35

#9 Not educated. Indoctrinated.

Posted by: DarthVader 2023-08-11 10:31

#8 Don't say "educated." Say "credentialed." I knew ya could...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-08-11 10:21

#7 Just because you're "educated" doesn't make you smart.

Posted by: Chris 2023-08-11 10:09

#6 This porker, and she is huge, is a tenured professor and Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies. She has never left the Black plantation: Ph.D. in American Studies from the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts,Emory University,2009. M.A. from Emory (2007) and bachelors degrees in English and Political Science from Howard University (2002).

Posted by: Jerens Black9355 2023-08-11 09:20

#5
#1 I'm sure the Arabs would be amused given they ran a lucrative slave trade from south Sahara to the markets in Cairo, Damascus, and Baghdad for hundreds of years before the Europeans set out to explore the world.
Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-08-11 07:36

... The Arabs are amused because we're getting the blame, and Snookums here is missing the part about the African tribes that enriched themselves on the slave trade for centuries.

Mike

Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2023-08-11 08:52

#4 Wikipedia describes her as a "professor of Women and Gender Studies", which makes a lot of sense because those fields abhor anything historical in nature.

DON'T click the link as there's a photo of her there.

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-08-11 08:28

#3 None so blind as those who will not see.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-08-11 07:56

#2 I guess this RACIST or Mega Dumba$$ graduated from an Internet college operated out of the BLoM leadership school.

Where is the ACLU and other racial equality groups on this open display of Racism and promotion to assault a certain race.

Since Rutgers Univ. continues to employ and allow this Racist teaching? I wonder how long before a LAWYER sees grounds for $$$$$$$ / Fame making lawsuit.

Also have to wonder if the Rutgers Univ. Donors support these racist teachings?

Posted by: NN2N1 2023-08-11 07:50

#1 I'm sure the Arabs would be amused given they ran a lucrative slave trade from south Sahara to the markets in Cairo, Damascus, and Baghdad for hundreds of years before the Europeans set out to explore the world.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-08-11 07:36

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