1) Some ignorant individual always brings it up.

2) We didn’t sell “our own people”. Africans sold prisoners or captors of war from other nations. Africa isn’t one big tribe. Let’s not be foolish.

3) Africans involved in selling slaves had NO IDEA how fucked up these new beige people would treat their slaves. They assumed the Europeans would act like humans toward their fellow humans. African tribes and nations tended to treat their slaves like one would a live-in maid or farm hand. They had enough to eat. They were given adequate shelter. They were able to participate in life outside of work. THEY RETAINED THERE HUMANITY. They were also often freed after a certain time. And any children they had were born free.

Africans didn’t know these Europeans were monsters about to commit unthinkable atrocities. They didn’t expect other Africans to be beaten, raped, murdered, tortured, and killed for some creepy white family’s entertainment. They didn’t intend baby’s to be torn from their mothers breast, little girls to be sexually violated and beaten so there would be no proof of a mixed child, little boys to work all day in the hot Virginia sun to earn their half ration of animal feed for the day.

And for you to have the audacity to derail talking about the pain, disenfranchisement, erasure, and holocaust of black people in America by saying “well, some Africans were accidentally part of it too and I just assume that the entire continent is a monolith and are ‘your people’ 🤷🏼‍♀️ ” is racist, disgusting, victim blaming, and quite frankly stupid. If you aren’t informed, or at least open to learn your facts before blaming the victims of one of the worst crimes in history, you don’t deserve to be part of the conversation.