It's Not All The White Guy's Fault

Through the very interesting documentary that we have witnessed in class, quite a few interesting and profound subjects come up.  In my American Literature class, we have just read the short passage about certain slaves being upon a slave ship and the absolutely terrible horrors they had to endure while spending time on the ship.  However, from the reading, I now understand that it was not only the fault of the white men for the enslavement of many of the Africans.  Indeed the white people conjured up the idea and without them even coming to Africa the Africans could still be at peace in their homes in Africa today.  The white people were the ones who treated the Africans like dirt or even less then dirt and it still remains their entire responsibility to what actions they took so many years ago.  The Africans, however, played a great deal in the slave trade as well.  The king in the passage we read was selling Africans willingly to the Europeans for different goods.  The Europeans probably did not want a fight with the slaves and they did not want to lose some of their own "product" so they went to the king and offered him goods in exchange for strong young men and women.  In conclusion, it still strongly remains the fault of the white people for enslaving these Africans but not all of the blame rests on the shoulders of the white people.  As I have said before, it definitely could never happened if the white people had not gone to such lengths, but the Africans did in fact play a part in the enslavement of their own people.