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"The involvement of Africans in the slave trade is conspicuous in its absence from the article." Because it is completely irrelevant to the article. "Whenever
by lkrubner 4y ago
"The involvement of Africans in the slave trade is conspicuous in its absence from the article."
Because it is completely irrelevant to the article.
"Whenever that fact is obscured, we promote the false perception that slavery is the fault of one race in particular."
This is untrue, and it is ridiculous thing to say. You do yourself no credit, trying to drag racial politics into a situation where they do not add explanatory power.
- deepdriver 4y agoRacial politics are central to the article because they are central to Haiti's history and development. Discussing racial politics in a wilfully blindered manner has serious harmful side-effects.
- gumby 4y agoCentral? Can you point to an example, apart from one of imagery wrt refugees crossing the US border?
- Apocryphon 4y agoYou are bringing up the racial in a way that is irrelevant to the political. The Kingdom of Dahomey did not profit from the Republic of Haiti via reparations post-independence. They do not have any relation to the continued immiseration of Haiti, unlike France did.
- D13Fd 4y agoIt sounds like you didn’t read the article. The discussion of slavery is just brief context for the majority of the article, which is about the post-slavery period.