Inside The Country Where You Can Buy A Black Man For $400

[Ryusei the Morning Star]

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/monicamark/slavery-nigeria-libya

 

Slavery is thriving in Libya, where thousands of black Africans hoping to get to Europe instead find themselves bought and sold, forced to work for nothing, and facing torture at the hands of their owners. This is what American Intervention over seas has wrought 

[vla1ne]

Well that's about the sickest thing i've read this month. I'd like to ask why, but i already know why you placed it here instead of general. that said, if you're doing that, remember to post at least some form of opinion to kick off the conversation. 

 

 

[spoiler=My own thoughts]

This man, his family, and everybody who has to go through this, is truly unfortunate. It's not always easy to remember while you're in a first world country, but countries like america, europe, japan, ect, are far better places to live than most of the residents will give them credit for. he has suffered as a real slave, and lost his dignity as a human being, suffering for years, just trying to get back to some semblance of civilized society.

 

 

As far as my opinions on the countries that this goes on in; This is the kind of thing that countries should be actually fighting. instead of dragging the people into already established countries, why not work to help places like libya actually rise up and become proper countries in their own right? Support the people who wish to rise up, work to establish a proper regime if need be, helping along the growth and education in the region, while cooperating with other first world countries to bring the poorer other countries up to par. not simple, not quick, and likely far beyond any government's ability to actually implement, but that's the only way i can see the problem being sorted out.

 

 

[Dad]

Then maybe we should mind our own funking business for once.  But then, we're a war mongering country who only gets out of debt by destroying the lives of everyone outside of North America, so that won't funking happen.

[Ryusei the Morning Star]

Well that's about the sickest thing i've read this month. I'd like to ask why, but i already know why you placed it here instead of general. that said, if you're doing that, remember to post at least some form of opinion to kick off the conversation. 

 

 

[spoiler=My own thoughts]

This man, his family, and everybody who has to go through this, is truly unfortunate. It's not always easy to remember while you're in a first world country, but countries like america, europe, japan, ect, are far better places to live than most of the residents will give them credit for. he has suffered as a real slave, and lost his dignity as a human being, suffering for years, just trying to get back to some semblance of civilized society.

 

 

As far as my opinions on the countries that this goes on in; This is the kind of thing that countries should be actually fighting. instead of dragging the people into already established countries, why not work to help places like libya actually rise up and become proper countries in their own right? Support the people who wish to rise up, work to establish a proper regime if need be, helping along the growth and education in the region, while cooperating with other first world countries to bring the poorer other countries up to par. not simple, not quick, and likely far beyond any government's ability to actually implement, but that's the only way i can see the problem being sorted out.

 

 

This sort of story no longer makes me sad, but angry. We caused this. This man's pain is on America's hands. The Neo-cons and Neo-liberals are responsible for this evil travesty. We encouraged the Arab spring, and we helped kill Ghadaffi.

 

It was just another example of why we need to stay the funk out of the rest of the world 

Then maybe we should mind our own funking business for once.  But then, we're a war mongering country who only gets out of debt by destroying the lives of everyone outside of North America, so that won't funking happen.

For once I agree with you

[vla1ne]

That's one of the things that bugs me about out interventions. We go in, we destroy the regime, but we never follow through.  Instead of just destroying the place and being done with it, at that point, it kinds does fall on us (or whomever destroyed the place) to help rebuild safely and ensure they can actually continue liing while raising their standards of living. If we can't, or won't do that, then we have no business stepping in in the first place.