Why do we only judge white people for owning slaves when every culture had them?

Another good question.  And I have one for you.  Why aren't the African chiefs who sold their citizens into slavery excoriated for that?  You can't buy what isn't for sale.

The word slave in fact comes from the Latin word sclavus which mean Slavic or captive.  

The Slavic people who Europeans who were in servitude in the 9th century. 
The first people called slave in English were  the Slavic people of Europe. 

As to the question, it is a means of controlling people today via guilt. 

I'm unsure of who you mean by "we" but I've known for a long time in my life that many, many cultures had slavery. Enslaving people is never a good thing to me.
In my culture in this country, I believe that most slave owners were white.
Whatever the culture, no matter skin color, just because other cultures did it, does not excuse the slave owners who were white. And I've never only thought white people were slave owners.



This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at August 14, 2024 6:18 AM MDT

Because in many places the descendants of those slaveowners still treat the descendants of slaves like dirt. I'm not being holier than thou either, I can hide my Native Australian ancestry and usually do, I don't look it.