President Trump Unable to Acknowledge "How Bad Slavery Was"

The ever-outspoken US President Donald Trump recently made statements - which I'm pissed off the likes of Afrocentrists and pan-Africanists - about American slavery.  Said statements were issued a coule of months ago, and basically, his argument is that slavery in the United States was not as detrimental or cruel to Blacks as it is usually presented.  That's a powerful sentiment for someone so prominent to express publicly, and you would expect some major backlash from the Black community.  But I have yet to come across news of any African-American celebrity, besides Spike Lee, addressing the matter.

WHAT WAS AMERICAN SLAVERY?

My understanding of capitalism is that slavery always exists within such systems, even if not officially.  Ideally, regardless of what part of the world you're referring to or what type of socioeconomic system respectively extant, measures would be in place to ensure that workers are not ruthlessly exploited, and said measures would actually be enforced.  As long as human dependency exists within a labor context, there will be exploitation of workers.  The way I've seen some employees treated in Ghana, I would've been able to surmise that slavery once existed here even if I never read it in a history book.

As for American slavery - the mass enslavement of Africans and their descendants in the United States - there's been so much written on this topic, and I've done so much research on it that I don't feel like getting into it here.  But in response to what Trump and likeminded individuals are trying to push, I can confidently counter by objectively arguing that American slavery was in fact a very f*cked up system, the type of which no one would logically want to endure, not even in the name of achieving "hope and progress".

IF SLAVERY WAS SO HORRIBLE, WHY ARE BLACKS SO LOYAL TO THE U.S.?

You have to presume that the likes of Trump and co., who believe the horrors of American slavery are overexaggerated, are basing such conclusions in large part to how Black people have behaved in relation to the United States since.  A skeptic wouldn't be able to accurately gauge how f*cked up slavery was by observing how Black people in general relate to the United States in the present day.

There are some logical questions, from an outsider's perspective, that need to be addressed if African-Americans are indeed offended by the days of slavery past.  For instance, if Blacks were so mistreated, why hasn't there been a mass exodus of African-Americans out of the United States since emancipation? 

That's more or less a rhetorical question, one which the most common answer tends to be that Blacks helped build the United States and therefore deserve to partake of the benefits thereof.  All things considered that's far from a perfect answer, and what it more realistically boils down to is this.

SUBLIMINAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN PERCEPTIONS OF AFRICA

Africans probably understood, since the early days of being forced to the New World, that the United States, 13 Colonies or what have you had a better economy or more promise than Africa.  You often hear those stories of slaves longing to get back to the Motherland, even being willing to risk life and limb in the process.  Some first-generation slaves who were actually familiar with Africa were on it like that.    But as for their offspring or the slave mentality in general, I can't say I've ever come across a historical account of masses of Black Americans making a genuine effort to return to Africa (outside of maybe the Garvey movement).  Those who overcame slavery, whether officially or unofficially, were more privy to remain in the U.S. (or Canada) as opposed to going back to the land of their ancestry. 

Africans who were shipped to the New World did not leave the Motherland voluntarily, and they went through hell even before the Middle Passage.  The way I imagine it is like, you're being marched through your homeland for weeks or months, in chains, subsequently being stored in a dungeon and then shipped off, with foreign colonizers in charge of the operation, yet none of your countrymen lift even a finger to help you.  I know it's not that simple, to be on some life-or-death vigilante sh*t.  But it's hard to imagine those first-generation slaves speaking glowingly of Africa after what they went through during their last days in the Motherland.  And that type of mentality/sentiment was likely passed on, even subliminally, to their offspring.

'Wow, we really miss Africa.  Our homeland is so full of magic'.  That's some Disney, naturalistic fallacy sh*t.  How fondly are you going to remember the Motherland after being kidnapped, beaten, raped and humiliated, almost to the point of death?  Whitey wasn't in Africa doing that sh*t on his own. In fact, the British had to actually fight the Ashantis to make the latter stop trading slaves.  That Black-on-Black hatred probably started developing even before leaving the Motherland.

BLACKS PREFER THE U.S. TO AFRICA

The African perspective of migrating to the United States is akin to the American perception of college.  Financial success may not be guaranteed, but it is a lot more probable.

Africans who travel abroad, regardless of their education level, are generally better off than the educated ones who remain in the Motherland.  So it doesn't take rocket science to figure out why Africans (and other Third Worlders) would even rather go to the U.S. than to attend college per se.

But now, try to look at all of this from the viewpoint of a skeptic or White racist.  You have African-Americans, regardless of how much they've suffered in the U.S., never seriously entertaining the prospect of returning to their homeland, which is just begging to be developed.  Then you have Africans themselves breaking their necks to get to the United States.  At some point, you're gonna start thinking, 'hey wait a minute, slavery wasn't that bad'.  Or 'if American racism has been so horrible to Blacks, then why won't they leave, or why do they want to come to the United States so badly'?

Simply put Whitey, the answer is because there's a lot more money and opportunity stateside.  People fear poverty more than they fear death, and developed is preferable to developing.  But of course, under such circumstances the abuse will continue and, as illustrated by the recent actions of Trump, ICE, etc. have the potential of getting worse.  That's how it is when an oppressor knows you're buckling under him in large part due to a fear or reluctance of venturing out on your own.

CONCLUSION

If slavery wasn't that "bad", then let you and your family go through it and see how you come out feeling.  But to some extent, I understand where President Trump is coming from.  He's anti-woke, and his argument is like why focus on all of the negative African-Americans have gone through while ignoring the positive.  After all, they are better off economically than their African cousins.  And in this world, happiness is ultimately defined by material wealth.