It is an unspeakably vile thing to destroy
a soul with the vile contempt of viewing
human beings as commodities, dispensable
whose value lies in their usefulness to others
living devices lacking full humanity whose
lives and labour have the capacity to bring
leisure and riches to those who own them.
Little wonder that descendants of those who
were taken from Africa writhe in pain at the
inherited memory of suffering in the depraved
and obscene misuse of human lives tormented
enslaved, raped and deprived of their freedom.
There are those who deliberately fail to recognize
the magnitude of this venomous barbarism which
the enslaved of all ages were forced to endure
or perish.Yet there are others of ancient lineage
who well know and recognize this assault on
human dignity for what it is for they too have
suffered endlessly from antiquity to the present.
African slaves were traded for profit by other
African tribes, the intermediaries Arab slave
traders.Yet confoundingly these historical facts
of duplicity and cupidity are brushed aside in
favour of placing responsibility for historical
and current misery the inheritors of those bleak
memories prefer to believe were caused by that
other people whom history and human failure
have chosen to represent with the very traits
most held in contempt deserving of blame and
the violence of slander and misrepresentation.
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