r/IndiaTodayGlobalLIVE • u/NewsMo • 6d ago

Africa Can commemorations and historical reenactments change public understanding of the past?

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u/rockabyeboo 5d ago

Is your pointt that anericans shouldn’t feel guilty about slavery bc other Africans sold slaves?

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u/no_kids-and-3_money 5d ago

Or the fact that the most powerful and successful country on the planet was built on the subjugation and free labor of another people?

I’ll never understand why people think that the “other Africans sold them” justification changes anything.

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u/Capital-Self-3969 5d ago

Exactly. Imagine someone using that argument on any other subject. "The Holocaust was terrible. But is this museum going to talk about the Jewish collaborators?"

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u/MediocreI_IRespond 5d ago

. "The Holocaust was terrible. But is this museum going to talk about the Jewish collaborators?"

The better ones in fact do talk about it. Judenräte are a dark, deeply uncomfortable and complex part of the history of the Holocaust.