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They were born in a first-world country that treated them as beings less than house rats for 200 years, then treated them as beings less than human for the next few decades. As far as we know they were pretty goddamn happy in that "3rd world hellhole". Don't even try and argue that they have social advantages, either.
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We've already discussed this; 50% of slaves were owned by people who owned 40 or more slaves. The other half were owned by people whom, to roughly quote the Penguin Encyclopedia of American History, worked side by side with the slaves, who ate with the slaves, and joined together in the daily tasks only to end up in different housing at night.
Regarding the "As far as we know they were pretty goddamn happy in that "3rd world hellhole". Yes, because Africa is a wonderful place. Let's look at, say, the 1950s to the 1970s in Africa and the USA. Why, when the black American was suffering here with the availability of Welfare, SSI, Food Stamps, electricty, running water and a proper sewer system, the Africans were having a ball. Let's use Equatorial Guinea as an example. Equatorial Guinea became known as the Dachau of Africa as it's dictator policies were so insane a fourth of the citizenry fled the nation, resulting in the dictator banning boats. He executed 100 people in the national stadium to the tune of then pop hit "Those Were the Days" on Christmas Eve.
Yes, the poor African Americans. Suffering the legacy of slavery, they earn less than White Americans for doing the same job. Some of them are even degraded to working minimum wage jobs at McDonalds wherein one earns more in a day than the typical resident of the Central African Republic earns in a month. They are forced to drink
tap water which has been purified, forced to walk to the bus station, where the bus takes them along the roads where sewage waste doesn't flow openly along the side.
Now, look at the wonderful life Africans have. HIV rates often in the double digits. Religious terrorist groups, both Christian and Muslim. Having to walk miles for drinking water. Sewage running in gutters along the roads. Widespread illiteracy. Ooo, and we should discuss womens rights in Africa? Here's three words for a fun african hobby: female genital mutilation!
Yes, clearly, African Americans suffering the the legacy of slavery are much worse off than those that remained in Africa.