All of the examples of historical slavery are still different from blacks in one key respect.
Jews are a cohesive group of people that originate from one place. They spring from one religion in one part of the world and the diaspora branched out, yet always knowing where they come from.
The problem when trying to make this comparison with black people who endured slavery is that Africa is not one place.
Nigeria alone has over 300 languages and numerous ethnic groups. There were hundreds of languages, tribes, religions, practices, beliefs among the people who boarded those ships in West Africa to come to the Americas. They came from present-day countries such as Senegal, Angola, Ghana, etc. Even the nation states within Africa today are the result of arbitrary borders drawn up by European colonizers with no regard to how that would affect the many different people that lived in them. The people weren't important to them, the resources were. That's why Ghana was just known as the "Gold Coast" until it won its independence from Britain.
That's the same problem you see in the Middle East with the Arab countries and Israel. Why does Israel have its shit together while Arabs don't? Before colonialism there was no such thing as a Syria or Iraq or Jordan. There were just people in those territories living in their own villages and towns along ethnic/religious lines. Now what you're seeing is the power struggles that have resulted from colonialism in which one strongman from one group absorbed total control over a very diverse country after the colonial masters left (mostly France and Britain in the case of the Middle East).
So, as it is with slavery in the US. The dehumanization, ownership, and disintegration of people who were not one cohesive group to begin with.
Consider how many varying shades of people that exist within the African-American community. How did that happen? Rape. There's no folks in West Africa that are the same shade of black as Vanessa Wiliams and the many lighter skinned blacks that you see in society.
Like I've said, no parallel in history.
Jews are a cohesive group of people that originate from one place. They spring from one religion in one part of the world and the diaspora branched out, yet always knowing where they come from.
The problem when trying to make this comparison with black people who endured slavery is that Africa is not one place.
Nigeria alone has over 300 languages and numerous ethnic groups. There were hundreds of languages, tribes, religions, practices, beliefs among the people who boarded those ships in West Africa to come to the Americas. They came from present-day countries such as Senegal, Angola, Ghana, etc. Even the nation states within Africa today are the result of arbitrary borders drawn up by European colonizers with no regard to how that would affect the many different people that lived in them. The people weren't important to them, the resources were. That's why Ghana was just known as the "Gold Coast" until it won its independence from Britain.
That's the same problem you see in the Middle East with the Arab countries and Israel. Why does Israel have its shit together while Arabs don't? Before colonialism there was no such thing as a Syria or Iraq or Jordan. There were just people in those territories living in their own villages and towns along ethnic/religious lines. Now what you're seeing is the power struggles that have resulted from colonialism in which one strongman from one group absorbed total control over a very diverse country after the colonial masters left (mostly France and Britain in the case of the Middle East).
So, as it is with slavery in the US. The dehumanization, ownership, and disintegration of people who were not one cohesive group to begin with.
Consider how many varying shades of people that exist within the African-American community. How did that happen? Rape. There's no folks in West Africa that are the same shade of black as Vanessa Wiliams and the many lighter skinned blacks that you see in society.
Like I've said, no parallel in history.