Thoughts on Slavery

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You are not a slave, peon would be a better word.

If you were a slave, you would be working a lot harder, have a lot less, and likely be receiving routine beatings.


As far as my thoughts on slavery goes, it's part of human nature. It sucks, but it happens. I doubt it will ever be totally wiped out.

You know, actually, living in modern America, I wonder about that.

I mean, we are not bought and sold (outright) and we are seldom beaten (physically), but...

...what happens if you step too far out of line?? It's not pretty, is it???

I also thought a lot, reading the article, about the number of times I have been openly and explicitly told that I am lesser because there is something "wrong" with me, that I am stupid, that I should be grateful I am permitted to serve someone else, that because of my condition I cannot expect the same things out of life that others do...

Sometimes by evil people, sometimes by self-serving "friends" and relatives, sometimes by people who were getting paid to HELP me, for Christsake. Said with sympathy and all good intentions.

It makes me wonder. Do human beings (or some of us, anyway) seek to create a slave class out of whatever material we can get to create one out of?? Are we that foul?? What's the deal?? Why??

Well, that is what legal slavery is about... No matter what the politicians imply, people can walk out of it because of the willingness aspect engendered in american law... However, there can be breech of contract lawsuits...

In Mauritania they are squatters. The country is controlled by Tribes, who own all the land, so no tribe, you pay rent to someone.

From the article, they eat, live in tents, wear clothes, and maintain a fair standard of living compared to most of the Sahal. People are dying of hunger and thirst all across the region.

A lack of cash wages is not proof of slavery. It would also do no good because they cannot count, there are no stores, they are hundreds of miles out in the sand.

They are not only free, but unwanted. Once Blacks were enslaved, used in salt caravans, but that was over a thousand years ago.

To the south there is a river, the country on the other side is Black African, they do not want to go back. They do not have tribe, family, or even speak the language.

The western side is near barren, little water, no soil, and running goats is about the whole economy. The land is held by arab tribes, who also own the goats.

These people being called slaves are more like beggers, most are dark as night, so they were not the slaves of Arabs for a thousand years, they recently crossed the river from the south.

In a lower economy, they are like our Mexicans who just wandered in to California.

The writer of this article lied about why he was there, skipped over the social structure, economics, and is trying to create an issue.

White God, fixes Africa on six day visit. Calls for UN invasion.