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> So racism has been killing more than the 130,430 people who have purportedly died from COVID-19 in the United States? Well, yeah. > Current estimates are th
by tych0 6y ago
> So racism has been killing more than the 130,430 people who have purportedly died from COVID-19 in the United States?
Well, yeah.
> Current estimates are that about 12 million to 12.8 million Africans were shipped across the Atlantic over a span of 400 years. The number purchased by the traders was considerably higher, as the passage had a high death rate with approximately 1.2–2.4 million dying during the voyage and millions more died in seasoning camps in the Caribbean after arrival to the New World. Millions of slaves also died as a result of slave raids, wars and during transport to the coast for sale to European slave traders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade
- ravenstine 6y agoNote the language: > has been That's present-tense. Maybe Bassett misspoke. Nevertheless, people need to be careful how they say things or they will get misinterpreted. Yes, if you go back far enough, you can find a lot of death caused by racism. Nobody disputes that.
- tych0 6y ago> Nobody disputes that. And yet you did :)
- ravenstine 6y agoHow so? I'm disputing deaths in recent history, based on the present-tense phrasing, not the fact that racism has killed millions throughout the history of the United States. As far as I can tell, we don't disagree on the latter point. You speak as if I'm dumb and didn't know about the African slave trade.
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- slimed 6y agoWe're talking about preventing covid deaths in 2020 and you bring up the Trans-Alantic slave trade. This is why no one takes you guys seriously anymore.
- voxic11 6y agoYeah but that is 12 million over 400 years, which is a rate of 30,000 a year. Covid is 130,430 in just over 4 months, which is a rate of 391,284 a year. So covid is about an order of magnitude more dangerous.
- rbecker 6y agoThe 12 million is for both North and South America, while 130 thousand Covid deaths are in the USA alone.
- opwieurposiu 6y agoThis wikipedia article says the majority of these enslaved Africans were sent to brazil. Serious question, what is the BLM situation like in brazil right now?