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First blackbeared got people from level 6 which is known for being only for the most powerful ones and blackbeared still made them fight so that only the most powerful would survive.His OG crew in pre timeskip was far from the “most dangerous people” and the fact that someone like croc didn’t know haki until apparently impel down despite gathering info and beefing with Whitebeard would only further prove that. Hell even if they did know haki why would there’s be strong enough to negate BB darkness when even Whitebeard was getting sucked up
And Croc was in impel down for a few months tops the other blackbeared members were there for likely much longer.
Since the beginning of marineford it was stated that whitebeared was barely able to use haki at all and Blackbeared only went to fight whitebeared when he was already almost dead. Pretty sure one of the arguments mentioned was ace not being sucked because of his haki which would obviously be lower than whitebeared.