Another common misconception is that slavery was racially motivated. People owned slaves as a means of getting work done. Blacks owned slaves as well... in fact the first slave owner in America was a black man.

You know the history of Liberia, no? Well here I will give you a review, created as an American Colony in Africa to "repatriate" the free ex-slaves, the latter were now the new settlers, and had to live with the Liberian natives whom they despised, in fact, the friction between both groups led to different types of aggressions and violations of human rights by the settlers, that is, the former slaves, who formed a pseudo-aristocracy and marginalized 95% of the population of the country, which was native.

After its independence in 1847, Liberia relied heavily on the United States to make its flag, its slogan, its coat of arms, and its constitution, and just as in America black people could not vote, in Liberia the natives could not vote , who as I said previously represented 95% of the population.

The Americo-Liberians controlled the key resources that allowed them to dominate the natives: access to the ocean, modern technology, culture and higher levels of education, as well as valuable relationships with many US institutions and the government of the United States.

Ironically, the Americo-Liberians also recreated the cultural and racial caste system of nineteenth-century American society, however, in Liberia they were in the elite and the natives were the lower class.

In 1927 the League of Nations began investigating allegations that the Liberian government had recruited and sold the Indians of the country as forced laborers or slaves. In its 1930 report, the League admonished the Liberian government to systematically foster a policy of unabashed intimidation and oppression to suppress the natives, to prevent them from developing their power as well as their social development in every way, to maintain privileges of the dominant and colonizing race, despite coming from the same African race as they.

After a couple of civil wars and numerous violent conflicts, to this day, the country remains enormously divided, and as you can imagine, the Americo-Liberians are still in power.

I regret to have extended so much, that is practically another publication, but I wanted to make it clear that the problem of racism, racial discrimination, and above all, slavery, is not monopolized by whites, it is a problem of all humans and that It must be attacked in all its aspects. Since he is doing historical revisionism, I tell him that everything I wrote down in this commentary is not, all that is the "official story", but it is that official story that nobody takes the time to read, and that nobody wants to listen.