I read this book in college once that basically said, Ok Africans had slaves, but in Africa slaves were treated like family! So the African slave traders weren’t the villains for selling people to white people, they didn’t know the white slave owners would do all that raping and whipping and tearing families apart. The author was dead-ass serious. In class one day some actual African students told us that was bullsh!t, that slaves in Africa were/are treated badly like slaves anywhere else. After thinking about it I finally remembered the book and author. It was the Kwanzaa guy, Dr. Maulana Karenga and the book was Introduction to Black Studies. This was back in the ’90s so the 1st or 2nd edition of the book.

Anyway, Bobby Lee’s ignorance of his own culture’s history of slavery reminded me of that. This clip is from a recent episode of the Bad Friends podcast, featuring Andrew Santino and Bobby Lee (who you might remember from MadTV).