Why Do We Become So Violent?

Imagine being born into a world of hopelessness. No dreams of becoming greater tomorrow. Waking up in the same routine everyday asking yourself is this how life really is supposed to be? I couldn 't fathom being without the capability of aspiring to become great and achieving the knowledge that I 'm capable of. I would be hopeless. That 's how I feel and look at slavery. A world of hopelessness. I understand that it happened and that it was there. But I could never quite understand why. Why was slavery and race an issue? Or perhaps why did it last so long and become so violent? Being African American sometimes I look as if we have a gift and a curse. The times have changed indeed but to some the mentality hasn 't, meaning a lot of us are ignorant and ill-informed both black and white. When I was younger I have asked myself. Do white people even accept me? Am I looked at differently? Of course I look at it emotionally because the world I know some of my closest friends are white and I am accepted …show more content…
The opening of a direct sea route immediately changed things for the worse, however. Once the Portuguese began trading guns for African captives of war, the slave trade became a malicious trap. If an African king refused to raid for slaves, the traders would cut off his gun supplies, making his own people defenseless against the raids of others. This system became the body for the start of a lucrative business that would remain for years to come. African slaves were, in fact well respected by other Africans than by the Europeans. Many African slaves were well clever and multi talented and just were captured in African war. African slavery was not based on race. Only in the Western Hemisphere did race become the mark of slavery: slavery heaviest chain was the color of their