Ugh, God! Why do some white people feel so compelled to do this?! I was writing about the trans-Atlantic slave trade specifically. I spelled it out for you! Do you feel the need to point out that genocide already existed whenever somebody mentions the Holocaust?!

I'm not attacking white people by pointing out historical facts. If you've bought into the collectivist white guilt bullshit tha's being spouted by some people then that's on you. I certainly don't blame you for things that people who happened to have your skin tone did hundreds of years ago.

Yes, peple of all colours have been slaves. But black people have the unfortunate distinction of being the only people who were considered slaves purely because of the colour of their skin. Freed slaves and free black people were forced into slavery in America simply by virtue of being black if they found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. In fact, that black people were subhuman was actually written into the constitution for a time.

And no, Africa was already colonised by the Portugese by the time the Atlantic slave trade began. European colonisers sold African slaves to other nations in Europe and America. Yes, Africans sold Africans as slaves too at other point in history. I never denied it. It's just besides the point.