Kanye West under fire after saying slavery was a choice

[The lost son]

It has never been a choice and it will never be. People fought but only Gods knows they could not win because technology know-how the Africans/blacks had in those days, they were no ways out to resist otherwise you tell me they sent themselves to Europe and America and asked for that. The same thing today, people say if a ship comes and announces to anyone who want to be taken it will get full hundred times it's capacity ni kweli we were once slave ni ngumu kutoka huko kwa njinsi walivo tubana kiuchumi, kisiasa and in every thing. lkn nitashangaa if kwa watu watakao jaza meli nikimwona mtu kama Bakhresa au Mengi and their alike.

 

[MIXOLOGIST]

By the way time is not what matters, it can be 400, 40, 12 years, or 4 or 2 days of slavery. Even the Jewish nation were suffered on Egypt for 400 Years.

The point, is choice or not a choice.

My answer is...If you married to a whitewoman you'll understand how to comment wisely.
Kanye knows best

I suppose this will be called "whitewoman or whitewife effect", I bet is not a myth, knowledge is power, thanks for sharing.

 

[Titicomb]

A lot of sense? Come on now
Now we are free you think it was easy fighting a man holding a gun,making bombs,and inducing all sorts of worst punishments like castration,amputation,whipping,torture in the genital parts,burning,branding,sexual assault(eg.taking two African men and tell them to have gay sex and they watch for fun)..MAN! They say those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Kanye's thinking,I cannot blame him,but it shows how the type of woman one marries can influence his actions.

Jews were subjected to slavery for 500 years more than once, you don't hear them crying and complaining about it like blacks.
We black race should stop blaming slavery for every thing negative in our lives. Let's move on.
Even Britons and Germans were slaves under the Great Roman Empire. Lakini ukisoma vitabu vyao mashuleni hawaweki msisitizo sana kufundisha kwamba maendeleo yao yamedumazwa na kwa kutawaliwa na Romans.

Wenzetu wanakazana kufundisha stori ya mtumwa wa kijerumani aliechukuliwa mateka(utumwani) akiwa kijana mdogo akaishia kuwa askari hodari wa mtawala wa Roma na baadae akarudi kuikomboa nchi yake(Germania) kwa vita dhidi ya utawala wa Roma uliomfundisha mbinu za kisasa za vita.

Kitu cha kufurahisha ni kuwa utawala wa mwisho wa Rome uliangushwa na mjerumani yaani watu waliokuwa watumwa wa Rome. Na ujerumani wamepiga hatua kubwa sana kuliko hiyo Rome.

 

[African Believer]

You think our ancestors never tried to fight back? They were more braver than us.
He was supposed to blame this current generation and not our ancestors.
They played their part to attain this freedom and now one has the audacity to mock our ancestors.What a shame?

Those were the days where real men like Martin Luther King and MalcolmX stood for what they believed in public sio kwenye social media.These giants got threatened and even assasinated.

Some 21st century guy disrespects history in social media and people call him a genius smh.

The real kittens are us and not our ancestors.Blame it on us and us alone.We have failed to conquer the world in freedom and we blame it on our ancestors? Shame on Kanye!

What is social media by the way? Social media is a new forum that resulted from technological advancements and people can use them for their betterment.

Through social media Kanye is trying to stipulate the fact that people have been misleading throughout human history.

When you talk about slavery and slave trade you are talking about bad thing human being ever experienced all over the world while its intensity witnessed in African continent especially in West African Coastal. The matter here is no the media you are using to deliver the intended message.

Regarding the historical facts that are there to refer Kanye don't mock our ancestors by exposing their weakness rather, he is telling the truth of what had happened for almost 400 years.

Go and read history of slave trade in West Africa and you will realize that the main organizers and slave chasers were Africans who captured their fellow Africans who could be sold for higher profits to Western traders. Before those western traders came to West Africa they have obtained slaves from other part of the world but in comparison Africa and African karma made them to seem the best. So in reality some of if not may African local leaders become musters and beneficiaries who facilitated the prolong of slave trade in their regions.

 

[African Believer]

Is this really? I never knew this before.

That is really. In many part of West Africa European slave traders were prohibited to go interior so they waited the local chiefs to bring them slaves.

Those local leaders had also tricks that could allow them to raid and sell their own citizens. This business made them rich and they were not ready to lose it even after it was abolished.

 

[Patriot]

"When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years?! That sounds like a choice. Like, you were there for 400 years and it's all of you all? You know, it's like we're mentally in prison. I like the word prison 'cause slavery goes too -- too direct to the idea of blacks," he said in the interview. "So prison is something that unites us as one race, blacks and whites being one race. We're the human race."

What do you think brothers and sisters from another mother?

Very very poor brain architecture! This what makes me encourage human population to nature education. He is famous, Yes! He is a dancer, Yes! then, unqualified for higher reasoning.

Synonymous to what he said is saying, the killing of about 6 mil. Jews sounds like a choice! Yes a choice! 6 million people?
Let's not grab hopelessly educated people's idea like this man by massaging their statements, trying to see whatever logic unseen in their thinking.

 

[MIXOLOGIST]

Very very poor brain architecture! This what makes me encourage human population to nature education. He is famous, Yes! He is a dancer, Yes! then, unqualified for higher reasoning.

Synonymous to what he said is saying, the killing of about 6 mil. Jews sounds like a choice! Yes a choice! 6 million people?
Let's not grab hopelessly educated people's idea like this man by massaging their statements, trying to see whatever logic unseen in their thinking.

You get the rapper wrong, slavery is no near to the Holocaust, these are two different things. Attacking someone personality does not make his point weak. The issue is slavery for 400 years sound like a choice, lets start from here.

 

[Patriot]

You get the rapper wrong, slavery is no near to the Holocaust, these are two different things. Attacking someone personality does not make his point weak. The issue is slavery for 400 years sound like a choice, lets start from here.

Where does the choice come from? The 400 years? Start with this.

Africa slave root was not the beginning of slavery. Which other slave trade did end in a different way from that of Africa? Unless he thinks Slavery was only African menace. He is just poor thinker.

Cutting the discussion short; White Americans have been trying to vindicate themselves from the evils of slave trade by saying it was so not because of bad traders, rather because of bad Africans who were selling you. That alone cannot make you the best trader and demonize the victim. Again a similarity is the killing of Jews which were also assisted by fellow Jews! They actually used Jews supervise fellow Jews.

 

[MIXOLOGIST]

Where does the choice come from? The 400 years? Start with this.

Africa slave root was not the beginning of slavery. Which other slave trade did end in a different way from that of Africa? Unless he thinks Slavery was only African menace. He is just poor thinker.

Its true slavery did not start with infamous transatlantic slave trade, but reading between the lines the contents of his supposition focuses on enslaved blacks of now the U. S. A. In deed time speak volumes its upon you to figure out whether or not it was a choice.

 

[Patriot]

Its true slavery did not start with infamous transatlantic slave trade, but reading between the lines the contents of his supposition focuses on enslaved blacks of now the U. S. A. In deed time speak volumes its upon you to figure out whether or not it was a choice.

In this world, good or bad is successful only when supported by the powerful. Be it for a day or 400 years over! Slave trade was not a nation enslaving the rest of the world! It was a system of the powerful by that time.
He is a musician. Let him sing good songs for us to dance and not claiming things not up to his level of reasoning.

 

[MIXOLOGIST]

In this world, good or bad is successful only when supported by the powerful. Be it for a day or 400 years over! Slave trade was not a nation enslaving the rest of the world! It was a system of the powerful by that time.
He is a musician. Let him sing good songs for us to dance and not claiming things not up to his level of reasoning.

I second, history is written by the victors and so he is singing a song written by his slave master

 

[chuma cha reli]

HOUSE NEGRO

 

[eliakeem]

They should move on yes, but was slavery a choice? This dude think they shouldn't have allow it at first place and for a such long period of time ( 400 years). He is making a lot of sense.

Hajui historia huyo muache. Na nadhani anajiona mwenye heri kuzaliwa kule.

 

[Tz mbongo]

Mkuu, story yako ni valid kabisa, wapo vijana wanafanya kazi kwa bidii wakitafuta nauli kwaajili ya kwenda kukata vitunguu na kubeba mabox huko ulaya na marekani. Utumwa unaanzia akilini.

Hivi akina Kanye west ukiwaambia waje kuishi huku afrika watakubali?

 

[Tz mbongo]

Hajakosea. Hata kuamini uwepo wa Mungu ni utumwa wa kujichagulia

Kwanini iwe kuamini mungu ni utumwa?

 

[Tz mbongo]

Japo wote tunajua kuwa utumwa haukufanyika kwa waafrika tu peke yao bali na jamii zengine pia,ila kwa kuwa nyuma kimaendeleo huwa tunajikuta tunasahau hilo tunapozungumzia utumwa.

 

[DiasporaUSA]

we are programmed to always talk and fight race issues. We need to update our conversation

 

[BAK]

 

[BAK]

 

[gonz]

I'm a black man but I REAL SUPPORT his dialogue, let's think again BLACK MAN