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Which begs a question. If the Africans colonized Europe first, would they eventually give them equal rights?

• vba616 4y ago
  I am under the impression that Africans did colonize Europe "first" - it is said a group of about 1,000 people came out of Africa about 50,000 to 75,000 years ago and most people outside of sub-Saharan Africa are supposed to be descended mostly from that group. But it's arbitrary to call them "Africans" now, since they became Europeans and Asians and... I doubt the intellectual honesty of using the settlement of Europe to excuse subsequent atrocities by Europeans with "Africans do the same thing". Because all you would be doing is relabeling the same group of people we call Europeans and speculating on what evils they may have committed prior to learning to document it.
• TMWNN 4y ago
  Almost certainly not. The entire concept of equality, and civil rights for all, is a creation of the Wester European Enlightenment with no precedent or counterpart elsewhere. To put another way, slavery has been present in every human society throughout recorded history. The only ones to have ended it across the board are a) the Roman Empire under Christianity, and b) the UK, France, US, and Brazil (roughly in that order) in the 19th century.