“It seems that, as an excuse for rejecting things African, many of our people pretend that they can’t connect with continental Africa and Africans because, ‘Africans sold us into slavery.’ Without going into the psychosis of self-hatred for those clinging to this excuse, I pose this question: ‘Why did Europeans have to kill so many Africans, have wars with Africans, and always arrive in Africa armed to the teeth?’ If Africans were simply ‘for sale,’ then it seems likely that the European would have only needed to back his ship up to the African coast, pay the African ’slave merchants’ a few pounds, load up the slaves, and sail off to the Americas. Why kill anyone?”

E. Jerome Johnson
7 Steps Toward Black Reemergence

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