Phxbrd wrote:

> "nick" <pizzalovingcriminals@allstar.ps> wrote in message
> news:N3nOa.9910$4O4.897826@newsfep2-win.server.ntli.net...
> >
> > "Phxbrd" <phxbrd@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> >
> > > > >"The EU is the world's leading humanitarian aid donor"
> > > >
> > > > I hope so, since they're largely responsible for the disasters of the
> > > world
> > > > today, what with their colonial empires and wars.
> > > >
> > > > The morass that is Africa is almost entirely Europe's doing.
> > >
> > > That started with slavery and the ivory trade.
> >
> > An American giving lectures on slavery?
>
> How much would you like to know?


I might point out at this juncture that America's role in the
slave trade was that of consumer.  The wholesale/retail
and shipping operations can be laid directly at the feet of
the Dutch and the English (and many other European powers)
as well as the Africans themselves, who were ready and willing
sell their countrymen to the highest bidders.

Lord Valve
American