Did Africans Sell Africans Into Slavery? Let’s Ask Some Africans – Taki’s Magazine

Two wrongs don’t make a right, they make two wrongs, says Jim Goad, reflecting on white and black complicity in black slavery.

As in this:

Nearly all modern historians agree that the scenario depicted by Alex Haley in Roots—that of white raiders penetrating the African interior to rout African villages for slaves—is fraudulent.

Instead, European slave traders nearly always bought slaves from African vendors at coastal markets.

We hear much about the brutal “Middle Passage” across the Atlantic Ocean, but almost never about the estimated 10 million or so indigenous Africans who perished while being marched to the sea in chains and yokes by their African captors.

Goad gives close to a dozen samples of mostly African blacks condemning black slavers, then concludes:

I have endlessly more respect for modern African leaders who are willing to acknowledge their ancestors’ role in slavery than I do for modern ethno-masochistic whites that try, against all evidence, to isolate guilt only on the white side and smear all whites from here to eternity with the invisible shit stain of guilt.

I also have far more respect for these African leaders than I do any modern American blacks who blame whites, and only whites, for every last drop of black suffering.

Read all about it here: Did Africans Sell Africans Into Slavery? Let’s Ask Some Africans – Taki’s Magazine

Longtime Dem precinct worker came by . . .

. . . and we got talking. Told her I take a Republican ballot, we got talking some more and guess what? She asked whom I’d vote for in the president’s race, I said “leaning toward Trump.” Guess what? So is she. If he’s on the ballot in November, he has her vote.

Will he do what he says he’ll do? We don’t know, she said. But we don’t know what the others will do either, I said. Exactly, she said.

Locally, she’s Dem, you see. But Trump is saying all the right things. He has so many businesses going, if economy goes bad, his businesses will too. (He has skin in the game.)

Romney should have butted out, she said. Me too.

How many like her will go for Trump while supporting local Dems?

Imagine Them As Used Car Salesmen

Questions about some well-known salesmen, beginning with:

What would Donald Trump sell you?

Continuing with Hillary, ending with

the one candidate he wouldn’t buy a car from? That would be Cruz.

Yes. The Cruz missile has too many words slipping lightly off the tongue. Slippery is the word, if not forked. Has all the answers, even in his sleep. Pastes on smile now and then. Otherwise, missile-perfect. Unerring, unnerving.

For comments on T. and H., see: A Voters’ Guide To Comparing Presidential Candidates: Imagine Them As Used Car Salesmen

Mitt Romney went for the jugular, and . . . 

I googled “mitt romney galvanized trump supporters?” and got these:

Mitt Romney’s Trump Attack May Have Sealed Republican …

fortune.com/…/mittromney-donald-trump-attack-republican-party-fate/

22 hours ago – Romney’s denunciation will likely galvanize Trump’s supporters, creating an even deeper GOP rift. On Thursday, Mitt Romney gave a speech in  …

Mitt Romney gives election to Donald Trump

http://www.newstalkflorida.com/mittromney-gives-election-to-donald-trump

22 hours ago – By attacking Mr. Trump, the former governor galvanized the TrumpRomney’s remarks, but so will Trump supporters who will claim, “See,  …

Mitt Romney: Donald Trump is a ‘phony, a fraud … – CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/…/mittromney-presidential-race-speech/

CNN

17 hours ago – Mitt Romney delivered a sweeping broadside against Donald Trumpthere are few signs it will dissuade Trump’s loyal core of supporters who  …

NICE GOING, MITT!

NATO commander: The Islamic State is “spreading like cancer” among Muslim migrants to Europe

Let ’em in, they said. (Bend over.)

Anyone could have and should have seen this coming. But no one in power cared to do so.

Last February, the Islamic State boasted it would soon flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. And the Lebanese Education Minister recently said that there were 20,000 jihadis among the refugees in camps in his country.

Meanwhile, 80% of migrants who have recently come to Europe claiming to be fleeing the war in Syria aren’t really from Syria at all.

It would never be this way in the U.S., because we have an alert and efficient government apparatus for preventing it.

Source: NATO commander: The Islamic State is “spreading like cancer” among Muslim migrants to Europe

The Arabs are coming, the Arabs are coming, says Pope Francis

He should say sharia-supporters.

It’s an invasion, he says, but one, says Robert Spencer, that

he and his minions have aided and abetted. “If Europe wants to rejuvenate, it is necessary for it to find anew its cultural roots” — yet Catholic bishops in Europe wouldn’t dream of standing for Christianity, or trying to preach it among the Muslim migrants.

That might harm the “dialogue.”In any case, the problem is not Arabs coming into Europe. The problem is Muslims coming into Europe believing that Sharia is superior to Constitutional government and determined to impose it in their new countries.

This road to sharia is paved with good intentions.

Source: Pope Francis: “We can speak today of an Arab invasion” of Europe

Oak Park’s tree-shaded oasis down the tube . . . 

Gonna be filled with runny-nosed urchins, I can see (and hear) it now.

The main attraction [in urban-forest Austin Gardens] will be the education center itself, a 2,100-square-foot multiuse center that will host children’s nature day camps, environmental education programs for adults and children in addition to other community events.

A “learning garden” will have birding scopes, nature imprints, native plantings and a social gathering area with game tables for group picnics.”While we are still working out the details, we will have both youth and adult activities planned for the day,” Park District of Oak Park Executive Director Jan Arnold said.

“We will have presentations by park district staff, including a ‘yard tips’ presentation by Travis Stephens and ‘tree tips’ by John Borland. We think the adults will enjoy this opportunity to get some advice for their homes.”We’ll also have some hands-on activities for children such as crafts and nature activities and yoga for adults.”

What about old farts who want to sit and watch the squirrels?

Source: Austin Gardens education center set for summer open | Articles | News | OakPark.com

The econ professor thumps Trump, gives Mrs. C. a pass

It’s the Pacific trade pact and T’s isolationism. But hers too.

Funny how in Professor Summers’ hyperventilating about the risk that Trump could collapse the Trans-Pacific Partnership, he somehow neglects to mention that Hillary Clinton has also publicly come out against that deal, in a pander to labor and an effort to appeal to Bernie Sanders supporters.

Unless Professor Summers thinks Hillary is lying for political purposes about her opposition to the deal and will reverse position and support it once elected [huh?], there’s no difference — zero difference — between her position on TPP and Trump’s.

And she’s supposed to be the establishment grownup and he (Trump, not Summers) is supposed to be the nationalist populist authoritarian demagogue. Right?

Well, that’s what we hear.

Source: Summers on Trump and Trade :: The Future of Capitalism

A sentence happens . . . 

, , , and a reader smiles.

The Bulls are giving up 102.8 points a game, and somewhere [former coach Tom] Thibodeau is laughing through his tears – laughing because he knew the Bulls made a mistake by firing him after last season and crying because he cries for every defensive lapse in every game anywhere. It’s quite a burden he carries.

Yes. And there’s no planning that. Open a vein and bleed, said veteran sports writer Red Smith about writing a column.

Source: Bulls got what they deserve with ‘No Defense’ Hoiberg | Chicago Sun-Times

Democrats to Clinton: Trump’s no chump

“Canny operator” can take Mrs. C.

It’s time to stop pointing and laughing at the Republican primary. For all the GOP front-runner’s flaws, many veteran Democrats are beginning to conclude, Donald Trump is a canny operator who just might end up in the White House if they’re not careful.

He appears to be cracking the code with white working-class voters who could help him put  in play against Hillary Clinton. He’s helping to fuel record turnout in GOP primaries and he’s mastered the media like no candidate in recent memory, with his constant feeding of catnip to cable TV and his 140-character missiles on Twitter.

Main point: He’s no dumbbell, is better campaigner.  Hmm.

Source: Democrats to Clinton: Don’t laugh off Trump threat – POLITICO