Great letter....thanks for the reminder. Least we all forget. Black people have been used, abused, plundered, discriminated upon, whipped, Lynched, spat on, shot , steered down, walked on , chained, harassed knees placed on necks since the first day the white man set eyes on our ancestors centuries ago. The sad thing about all of this is that this vile treatment of our kiind continues today.

Soooooooo, were (or are) there any "white hogs" in 242???? .......... Or "black hogs"????

Blacks owned blacks as well ........... That is how the whites got them in the first place.

Here is some factual info about your "white hogs"

"Some slave owners demanded reimbursement for their lost “property” after emancipation, and by 1876 the demand—and its overwhelming associated cost—had become useful as a threat. The above article in the New York Times, dated October 21, 1876, i.e., just before the big presidential election, contains the claim that Democrats planned on demanding slave owner compensation if they won the election. It’s tough to believe that such a project would have been feasible, but either way, the Republicans prevailed."

https://evblog.virginiahumanities.org/2…

"In 1865, the Republicans passed the Thirteenth Amendment banning slavery."

"In 1872, the first seven black members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives were Republicans."

"In 1877, federal troops were removed from the Southern states and the era of Reconstruction ended. Democratic-controlled southern governments enacted segregation policies, called “Jim Crow Laws, which effectively disenfranchised blacks and segregated all aspects of society."

https://www.wayoflife.org/reports/the_d…

BTW the USA elected twice a black President and a black woman is now running America. I can't think of any country mostly populated by blacks who has elected a leader of another color.

In the case of George Floyd the chief of Police of Minneapolis was black (who of course did not resign) and the Mayor was a Democrat.

The truth sometimes is hard to handle.

Why are you quoting and justifying our "white hog" experiences with US political history?

Sorry, I forgot that 242 is quasi-American in more ways than one.

There seems to be some misunderstanding about the circumstances that surrounded the compensation monies paid to owners of slaves.To understand the factors involved you have to remove your thinking from 21st century social mores and morality. Most people today have no problem eating veal or steak; it , it be that in 100 years or less most people will be filled with revulsion at the idea, knowing the horrendous life a veal calf is subjected to and the cruelty of the slaughter houses. The abolition of slavery by the British parliant was a political decision as such it required lobbying, compromise, back room deals to get enough mp's to support the legislation. At that time, rightly or wrongly, people could legally own a slave. A slave was worth money. To get enough support for the bill to pass it was necessary to offer compensation for the loss of what up until then was propery that had a value. So it was a purely pragmatic decision necessary to achieve a desirable aim. I believe that the money was raised by the British government issuing bonds and these bonds have only just be paid off a few years ago.

The article says, "white hogs transported over 12 million slaves from AFRICA". That type of writing is unacceptable. And by the way, as you know, Black greedy pigs captured and transported black slaves to those White hogs' ships to be transported across the Atlantic. So, White hogs and Black greedy pigs are bkth complicit in this manner.

I have read the comments here and you guys just don't get it - the rabbit hole is deeper than you think!! We are a conquered colonized people. The conqueror is a supernatural being who stays out of the lime light leaving very little traces that it exists. That entity rules through deception, inversion, perversion and chaos - the contrived hstory of the world was given to us by its demonic agents. The ruling elite and ruling races are its puppets and they are true demons. Our leaders got caught up in the evil doing and got their kundalini raised (sacral gland massage) - that is the initiation which opens one for possession by evil entities. Stop thinking so small because this entire realm was seized from our ancestors by the parasites - that is why reparations is not possible. We have been fooled into believing that Gods do not exist and many into worshiping the conquering enemy God who hates us, sanctions our enslavement and keeps us under subjection by ensuring that our countries fail.

https://comparet.christogenea.org/sermo…

https://piercingtheveilofillusion.com/2…

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/870595…

http://realhistoryww.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCIdy4l…

Issues??????? ............ Every black person should have issues with being in the Americas ........... Except you are one of the brainwashed ones .....

12 million slaves were transported of which 10.5 lived. Of those, 400,000 went to North America. The vast majority went to Brazil and the rest of LatAm and the Caribbean, where they were enslaved by what we now refer to as "people of colour". I hope Mr.Armbrister feels 10 times the animosity toward Brazilians as he does toward "white pigs".

C2B I think you need a history lesson.The African slaves that went to Latin America were not enslaved by 'people of color'. Brazilians who enslaved those Africans were descendants of the Portuguese colonizers. They were white, not POC. Portugal is a white country. The rest of Latin America the slave owners were primarily of Spanish extraction. That would be Spain in Europe, a white country. So the slaves in Latin America were enslaved by 'white pigs' as well.

I remember my mother always saying that those who choose to use racism as a crutch in their lives are more often than not allowing their own racist tendencies to hold them back in life.

Strange that there has been no mention of Arab slave traders working south along the east coast of Africa, the huge slave market of Zanzibar or of the institution of slavery in the Roman Empire when the slaves were mostly Germans and Greeks.

Someday, i predict, the USA will have black mayors, governors, congressmen, senators and even a black president. Someday.

They already did. A great President named Obama.

As much as I think what the letter writer says is true and is unfortunately a sad, and reprehensible, part of history I would be interested to hear what he/she thinks will be said 50 years from now about the black on black violence that we currently experience in The Bahamas (and elsewhere) especially with the male gangs. I don't think the finger can be pointed at the 'white hogs' for that. At the rate things are going, there will more blacks killed by other blacks because of gang violence, than slaves killed by the white hogs. History repeating itself, but just in a different way.

The author seems to not to know that the morjority of citizen not the well off leaders in the countries that traded in slaves to the americas an others who also traded slaves of many hues in all parts of the world over the the eons, were treated as serfs and their lifes were cheap, that includes all of "White Hog" Europeans, as well as the Middle East, and Asia!
African tribes regularly took slaves of other tribes with in their not only within the immediate vicinity as well as north south, east west.
There was still slavery going on in parts of the Arabian Penisular into the 1960s, never mind all those Rastafarian Bahamians revering Haile Selassie when Ethiopia was one of the last bastions of slavery under his reign in the late 1930s one of the excuses Mussolini used to invade the country.
The whole world has been engaged in slavery and was the norm for hundreds of years not just "White Hogs" but "Black Hogs", "Red Hogs", "Coloured Hogs","Yellow hogs" " Sallow Hogs"
etc etc!
It's my opinion that the author is blinked never mind judging and applying the white/black race issue of the present day USA to the rest of the world! IMHO.

Nobody would diasgree that slavery perpetuated by black and white people was wrong but a letter as vulgar as this only stirs up resentment and ill feeling. . Much of the slave trade was enabled by black african chieftans and, still exists in Africa and Yemen to name two as you say.. There is racism in the Bahamas where young students classify each other as your " black self" and bleach skin to appear whiter. What about Spanish Wells which until the seventies required all black Bahamians to leave the island at sunset. Your own constant use of the term Hogs is an insult to normal citizens of every colour and every country. It might be the case that you yourself have racist views.

If your statement :-

"Your own constant use of the term Hogs is an insult to normal citizens of every colour and every country. It might be the case that you yourself have racist views*

is directed at me and not the author of the article" I was being facetious implying that all slave traders of what every colour cred or ethnicity are Hogs, pigs whatever, and the author was being myopic, sorry if you misunderstood