I've beeen watching this idiot and his pastor for the past few months.
http://boards.cannabis.com/politics/148793-obama-s-church.html

How can a man that got the name of his book from one of the rev's sermons, has been an active part of the church for 20 years, was married, and had his kids baptized by the rev, and yet claims to have never ever heard the rev's rhetoric, "from the pews". WTF is that? So the rev talks hatred other times, but not from the pew? (at least whilst Osama Obama is 'in the house') Gee, that sounds plausible.
Osama's wife, last week, was saying how it's the first time in her life she has been proud of being American. Sounds exactly like the rev's bullshit to me. She's clearly heard the rev's diatribes, yet they expect us to believe that Barrak didn't?
Would sure be appropoe if they found a tithe reciept for one of the days featured on the video.

His interview on Fox last night was a blast. Watching him stammer and stumble with his wording...priceless. His lies were obvious, and his pleadings fell on deaf ears.

Yeah, yeah...slavery was a bad thing. Blah, Blah, Blah... The rev is sure fired-up about the white man's role in the slavery and opression of the black man over a century ago, but says nothing about the current slave trades in the region. Somalia and Ethiopia come to mind, just for starters.

We keep hearing how the white man had come across the oceans, and stole them away from their homeland. Any clues where we got those slaves? Do you think we floated by, and said..."hey look, there's a couple of blacks just lying on the beach..."

These two links below, are very informative about the subject.

The Story of Africa| BBC World Service:
In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia, pearl divers in the Gulf, soldiers in the Omani army and workers on the salt pans of Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Many people were domestic slaves, working in rich households. Women were taken as sex slaves.

Arab traders began to settle among the Africans of the coast, resulting in the emergence of a people and culture known as Swahili. In the second half of the 18th century, the slave trade expanded and became more organised. There was also a huge demand for ivory, and slaves were used as porters to carry it.

Listen to a BBC dramatisation of Sultan Seyyid Said's daughter, Princess Salme, talking about her life in Zanzibar

There were three main reasons why more slaves were required:

1. The clove plantations on Zanzibar and Pemba set up by Sultan Seyyid Said, needed labour.

2. Brazilian traders were finding it difficult to operate in West Africa because the British navy was intercepting slave ships. The Brazilians made the journey round the Cape of Good Hope, taking slaves from the Zambezi valley and Mozambique.

3. The French had started up sugar and coffee plantations in Mauritius and Reunion.

A number of different people -Arabs and Africans - were involved in supplying slaves from the interior, as well as transporting ivory. They included:

· the prazeros, descendants of Portuguese and Africans, operating along the Zambezi,
· the Yao working North East of the Zambezi
· the Makua operating East of the Yao, closer to the coast
· the Nyamwezi (or Yeke) operating further north around Lake Tanganyika under the leadership of Msiri and Mirambo, who established a trading and raiding state in the 1850's which linked up with the Ovimbundu in what is now modern Angola

The most famous trader of all was Tippu Tip, (Hamed bin Mohammed) a Swahili Arab son of a trader, and grandson of an African slave. He was born in Zanzibar of African Arab parentage and went on to establish a base West of Lake Tanganyika, linking up with Msiri. He and his men operated in an area stretching over a thousand miles from inland to the coast.

African slave trade - Wikipedia

"All three slave-trading routes tapped into local trading patterns. Europeans or Arabs in Africa very rarely mounted expeditions to capture slaves. Lack of people and the prevalence of disease prevented any widespread gathering of slaves by Europeans and other non-Africans. Local rulers were very rarely open to allowing groups of armed foreigners to enter their lands. It was far easier and more common to make use of existing African middlemen and slave traders. Slavery has been present in Africa for millennia, and still is today even with children, though some historians prefer to describe African slavery as feudalism, arguing it was more like the serfdom system that controlled the peasantry of Western Europe during the Middle Ages or Russia into the 19th century than slavery as it was practiced in the Americas."

"The slaves came from many different sources. About half came from the societies that sold them. These might be criminals, heretics, the mentally ill, the indebted and any others that had fallen out of favour with the rulers. Little is known about the details of theses practices before the arrival of Europeans, and so it is difficult to tell if the number of people considered as undesirables was artificially increased to provide more slaves for export. It is believed that capital punishment in the region nearly disappeared since prisoners became far too valuable to dispose of in such a way."