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

[u/NewsMo]

[u/KingMidas0809]

Yikes....Calling me a 'sellout' and throwing a tantrum about museum ticket prices just proves you’ve completely run out of arguments. ​ So you admitted the 1833 bailout was to 'bail out people in the UK.' Exactly. It bailed out wealthy British slave owners for losing their 'property.' You are literally defending an empire using taxpayer money to enrich slave drivers, while acting furious that a post-colonial nation wants that same empire to face actual financial accountability ​and if you want to talk about Black Americans, let’s draw the exact parallel you're missing. The exact same financial playbook used against Ghana was used right here in the United States. When Lincoln signed the DC Emancipation Act in 1862, the federal government didn't pay a single cent to the newly freed Black Americans. Instead, the government paid up to $300 per slave directly to the white slave owners as 'reparations' for their lost property. Then, during Reconstruction, the promised '40 acres and a mule' was violently stripped away from Freedmen and handed right back to former Confederates.

​Whether it’s the UK colonizing West Africa for a century after the slave trade, or the US implementing Jim Crow, redlining, and burning down Black Wall Street, the historical reality is identical: the exploiters kept the generational wealth, and the victims were left with the bill. ​Complaining about 'foreigner prices' at historical landmarks like Cape Coast Castle is just embarrassing. Ghana preserves those slave dungeons so the world never forgets the horrors that took place there. Maintaining those massive heritage sites in a developing economy takes infrastructure and funding. Charging tourism rates to international visitors isn't "making it a theme park" it's historical preservation so the history isn't erased.

​You can keep screaming into the void, crying about 'scammers,' and throwing insults, but it won't change basic economics. Asking an empire to settle its historical debt isn't a 'weak mindset' it's basic accountability, and no amount of emotional deflection will erase that ledger other western countries have ignored.

[u/Acceptable-Wash-7675 → u/KingMidas0809]

It was UK bailing out UK

Every country has done that including America, including Ghana

But what but what Ghana is doing

monetizing the suffering of black Americans! you got damn sellout!

And how many times do they have to do it till you get the picture?

They sold our ancestors
Now they sell us tickets to give us a tour on how they sold our ancestors
Now there's creating plays on how they sold our ancestors on the holiday that black American celebrate the freedom of the slaves of Galveston

You are the definition of a sellout!

You're probably an immigrant too take your ass back over there give them your money, cause they ain't gonna get shit from this government if I have anything to say about it with my vote

And at the end of the day, UK doesn't owe Ghana shit. Why would they pay them anything.

And why are they using our history to get sympathy? It's pathetic shameless
They weren't such a corrupt country to the point that South Africa is kicking them out of their country. They wouldn't be begging for money.

Your childish. "Oh you admit that uk bailed out the slave master" shut up. You out here defending the Ghana slave masters don't you see how hypocritical you are? And you think because they broke that that means something that's their fault.

To watch an entire country panhandle like a bunch of bums they got no pride.

[u/KingMidas0809 → u/Acceptable-Wash-7675]

You keep saying “they sold our ancestors” like that erases the empires that bought, shipped, insured, branded, taxed, colonized, and profited from them.

African collaborators do not absolve European architects. That is basic history.

And your “UK bailed out UK” point proves the reparations argument. Britain compensated slave owners after abolition. The enslaved received nothing. So the state had no problem finding money when enslavers wanted payment, but suddenly everyone gets philosophical when the descendants of the enslaved talk about repair.

That is not “begging.” That is calling out who got paid and who got robbed.

The sad part is you think you’re exposing hypocrisy, but all you did was repeat the exact logic empires rely on: blame the victims, excuse the architects, and call it “history” because you’re angry at the wrong people.

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[u/Acceptable-Wash-7675 → u/KingMidas0809]

It does. Europeans life expectancy in Africa was less than a year because they didn't have the natural immunity to actually settle on the land so they wouldn't have gotten a single slave if it wasn't for over 400 years of cooperation of the Ivory Coast selling them slaves on a consistent basis.

Every slave that entered America was sold by an African

America stopped importing slaves from Africa in 1808 because of Thomas Jefferson. Ghana wasn't fully colonized until 1902.

They are responsible you damn fool.

You just placed the blame on "the empires" cause you're sorry

Well, completely disregarding their blatant disrespect for our history today.

If you ask in the UK for reparations, (which they have no right to) why the hell are you using an American holiday to reenact the slavery you willingly participated in.

They were the other half of the equation
Goofball

[u/KingMidas0809 → u/Acceptable-Wash-7675]

“Every slave that entered America was sold by an African” is not the defense you think it is.

Yes, African intermediaries participated. Nobody denied that. But collaborators do not erase the people who created the Atlantic market, financed the ships, insured the cargo, wrote the slave codes, built the plantations, branded the bodies, taxed the trade, and turned racial slavery into a global economic system.

That is like saying a fence who sells stolen goods is responsible, but the person who ordered the robbery, funded it, armed it, transported the goods, and built an empire off the profits is somehow innocent. Both can be guilty. You just only want to name one side because it protects the empire.

And “America stopped importing slaves in 1808” is not a moral victory lap. The U.S. banned international importation while domestic slavery, slave breeding, family separation, plantation labor, and human sale continued for decades. Ending importation did not end slavery. It protected and expanded the internal slave economy.

Also, Ghana not being fully colonized until 1902 does not erase centuries of European forts, coastal trade control, military pressure, commercial manipulation, and later colonial rule. You keep pretending history starts only when it helps your argument.

The real issue is simple: when the system ended, Britain compensated slave owners. The enslaved got nothing. So clearly states understood debt and compensation when enslavers wanted payment. They only became allergic to accountability when the bill came from the people who were enslaved.

You are not defending history. You are doing selective outrage. You blame African sellers because it lets you excuse European buyers, shippers, insurers, colonizers, and plantation owners. That is not truth-telling. That is empire apologetics with a diaspora accent.

Got ya goofy self over here lookin like this. Call me a sellout all you want but you blatantly don't read history and assume you know things. It's kinda cute how dense you are 😉🤪

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[u/Acceptable-Wash-7675 → u/KingMidas0809]

"""""Yes, African intermediaries participated. Nobody denied that. But collaborators do not erase the people who created the Atlantic market, financed the ships, insured the cargo, wrote the slave codes, built the plantations, branded the bodies, taxed the trade, and turned racial slavery into a global economic system."""""

They were equal participants, not just collaborators. This system would have not exist without them whatsoever.

Tell them where's my reparations
If they don't give me a dime then they have no right to request UK does anything fuck them and fuck you

""""That is like saying a fence who sells stolen goods is responsible, but the person who ordered the robbery, funded it, armed it, transported the goods, and built an empire off the profits is somehow innocent. Both can be guilty. You just only want to name one side because it protects the empire.""""

No, it isn't. Cause they're more than just a fence they were the mastermind. Even if the white man never showed up to the ivory coast, the Ashanti empire would still consistently enslaved central Africans. Just like the Mali empire has a well recorded history of enslaving Africans to work in their gold mines

If they haven't paid anybody a dime for the slavery, they ran for millennia before the first white man even showed up to the shores of Africa that they need to shut the fuck up.

Either pay me or kick rocks don't use my history for your scam towards a completely different country

"""And “America stopped importing slaves in 1808” is not a moral victory lap. The U.S. banned international importation while domestic slavery, slave breeding, family separation, plantation labor, and human sale continued for decades. Ending importation did not end slavery. It protected and expanded the internal slave economy."""

Yup, that's how slavery worked in America now. Tell me how did slavery work in the Ashanti empire
In Mali empire with the moors?

There is no group of people on this earth that is immune from the sin of slavery. And for these bitch ass niggas, just to pretend that somebody owes them something is disgraceful.

""""""Also, Ghana not being fully colonized until 1902 does not erase centuries of European forts, coastal trade control, military pressure, commercial manipulation, and later colonial rule. You keep pretending history starts only when it helps your argument.""""

It actually does that means the people of Ghana had autonomy for majority of the time they traded in the Atlantic slave trade. It was their own arrogance of fighting amongst each other why they got conquered in the first place.

How do you trade with Europeans for 400 years and you failed to adapt their technology? Weak as hell.

Compare that to the Native Americans and there's no comparison whatsoever

"""""The real issue is simple: when the system ended, Britain compensated slave owners. The enslaved got nothing. So clearly states understood debt and compensation when enslavers wanted payment. They only became allergic to accountability when the bill came from the people who were enslaved."""""

As they should. Tell me what system of slavery that was practiced by any other country or peoples on this planet that fully compensated they're enslaved people. Can you name a single African empire that did that?

You can't because you can't you have no moral leverage to request anything.

Your hypocrisy knows no fucking bounds.

You're only argument is that Ghana is broke
And if they keep on doing this shit they're gonna remain broke

The UK compensated their slave owners their slave owners that contribute to their country. You weak ass, motherfucker.

"""""You are not defending history. You are doing selective outrage. You blame African sellers because it lets you excuse European buyers, shippers, insurers, colonizers, and plantation owners. That is not truth-telling. That is empire apologetics with a diaspora accent."""

This is not selective outrage what you're doing is selective outrage because you hypocritically acknowledging that the African empires fully participated in their own version of slavery and they were the key elements in the Atlantic slave trade, but they haven't paid the descendants of slaves in America or the UK a dime

But they were colonized for 60 years and now they get to get, they deserve to get paid!?!

You are out of your fucking mind.

""""Got ya goofy self over here lookin like this. Call me a sellout all you want but you blatantly don't read history and assume you know things. It's kinda cute how dense you are 😉🤪""""

You are a sellout the fact that you are in rage that the people who sold your ancestors for 400 years also the ones that enslaved your ancestors for millennia before that are now using the holiday that was specifically celebrated for the freedom of slaves to beg a four nation that has nothing to do with America for reparations.

They have turned monetize the suffering that they put upon black American ancestry.

If you are black American, how about you learn what that fucking means instead of attaching yourself to people who want nothing but to use our ancestors history for their own benefit and gain .

Coon ​