The Country Where Slavery Is Still Normal Funny how all slavery is blamed on the anglo explorer and forgotten about, forgiven or hushed over in the "Motherland" that African-Americans idyllically cherish and value as pure human existence.   Where are jackson, sharpton, raz and all the other profiteers on the blm gravy train when their brothers and sisters are still enslaved?  Crickets.   The north African nation of Mauritania has tried three times to abolish slavery within its borders, most recently in 2007, and three times it has failed. Though the most recent effort established tougher legal penalties -- 10 years prison time for holding slaves, two years for "promoting" slavery -- the practice remains pervasive, with an estimated half million Mauritanians enslaved, about 20 percent of the population. Mauritanian slaves are forbidden from owning property, a last name, or legal custody of their own children.... ...As in Saudi Arabia, which did not emancipate its slaves until 1967, slavery was a function of extreme wealth discrepency that divided along ethnic lines between Arab and African, skin color lines between white and black, and often between sedentary and nomadic communities, the latter of which lacked recourse for recovering its children abducted into slavery.... https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/06/the-country-where-slavery-is-still-normal/241148/