It blows my mind that Native Africans are never held responsible for the slave trade.

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Hmmm, even in that comparison, how come we don't see the same level of kinship among Asians?

For example, Japan's imperial conquests during WW2 also lead to a lot of slaves being taken from China, Korea, Philippines and so forth. And while Asians may have gotten over it now, Japan still had to pay atonement for it. Heck, there's even still controversy flying the WW2 Japanese flag in these countries.

Meanwhile, Black Americans have made no such demands for reparations from African traders. They also still fly and use the pan-african colors, even though ironically, it was Africans who kicked them out of their own continent first.

It's like history books completely erased Africa's involvement. The media tells us that out of the blue, ships just started dropping Africans off in the new world. But they never tell us WHO started packing those ships first, or WHO even arranged for the millions of Africans to actually board them instead of being told to stay home? Europeans couldn't have done that by themselves, unless they were mega geniuses and convinced a whole race to leave a continent using nothing but willpower.

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That's exactly why we don't see the same level of kinship among Asians. Within their own racial subgroups, they understand that there's not necessarily an automatic alliance simply because they come from the same continent. That's like comparing Eastern Europeans (whoops, I meant Hungarians. I hadn't eaten yet, dinner was ready and I rushed through my comment to start eating) to wanting to ally with Romanians, simply because they share a space. There's bad blood there.