This is an idiotic statement. I find that people parrot this ideology. Let me resolve this issue.

1. "Black" is a color not a people. It is an extremely broad brush. Color racial labeling is a new phenomenon.

2. There were ETHNIC GROUPS of people in Africa that sold other ETHNIC GROUPS of people living in the continent at that time. Africa housed many nomadic people who migrated all over the continent to adjust to major climate events (droughts especially).

Dominant Ethnic groups in Africa have a tendency to admonish the smaller ethnic groups. In the case of the people who were kidnapped and forced into labour, those people were seen as FOREIGNERS by the Dominant ethnic groups.

This is how the genocide against the Tutsi occurred in Kenya. The Tutsi were seen as being foreigners. The Hutus had no qualms with slaughtering the Tutsi because they were a different ethnic group.

3. Africa's current issues were caused externally by European colonization. The Scramble for Africa in the 1800s drew lines upon the continent and did not take into account the various ethnic groups. Imagine if someone irrationally combined France, Spain and Portugal....and then said that the Portuguese were the ruling class.