SLAVERY? RACISM? WANT
REPARATION? Talk to your grandfather!
“All the tribes were
involved in the slave trade—no exemptions.”
"The
African-Americans were staggered: “So we really can’t blame the Europeans,” one
declares, “We sold our own? Money and Greed!”
"Reparation and Social Justice are ill conceived Jokes"
(Emmanuel S. John; The Pacification of Humanity.com)
This is an accurate picture. Revisionist History always shows white people managing slaves and even auctioning them off in Africa. The truth is it was done by Africans in Africa and all the other races in their home countries. Africans cut off the heads of millions of potential slaves if they didn't survive the harsh trek to the West coast of Africa in sell-able shape.
(The first section of this article has been
taken from an article written by Sheldon M. Stern. My comments are in "()." Mr. Stern taught African American history at
the college level for a decade before becoming historian at the John F. Kennedy
Library and Museum (1977–1999))
Mr. Stern's Article………..
During this era (Slave
trade), Africans and Europeans stood together as equals, companions in commerce
and profit. Kings exchanged respectful letters across color lines and addressed
each other as colleagues (The word racism and the concept had not yet existed).
Natives of the two continents were tied into a common economy (Big business at
the time).
Incomplete depictions of
the Atlantic slave trade are, in fact, quite common. My 2003 study of 49 state
U.S. history standards revealed that not one of these guides to classroom
content even mentioned the key role of Africans in supplying the Atlantic slave
trade. (How insane is this? Not one!
This is EDUCATIONAL INDOCTRINATION, THIS IS REVISIONIST HISTORY. This is why people hate each other, not
because there is systemic racism but because people aren't given the truth;
because African Americans are selfishly being lied to in order to control their
vote and keep them on the DEM plantation.
Our struggles are the result of purposeful manipulation by the progressive
educational elite where black professors still sell out black people for
political ideology.)
In Africa itself, however, the slave trade is remembered quite differently. Nigerians, for example, explicitly teach about their own role in the trade: (The following is what is taught in Nigerian schools) "Where did the supply of slaves come from? First, the Portuguese themselves kidnapped some Africans. But the bulk of the supply came from the Nigerians. These Nigerian middlemen moved to the interior where they captured other Nigerians who belonged to other communities. The middlemen also purchased many of the slaves from the people in the interior . . . . Many Nigerian middlemen began to depend totally on the slave trade and neglected every other business and occupation (This may be why that country is still wrought with International scammers and thieves; the other economies never developed naturally. Nigeria is the center of most of the internet and email scams in the world, Instead of selling people they now sell identities). The result was that when the trade was abolished [by England in 1807] these Nigerians began to protest. (England, white people, made the Africans stop selling people. Like many other countries in the world at the time Africa was a colony of England) As years went by, the trade collapsed such that Nigerians lost their sources of income and became impoverished."
In Ghana, politician and
educator Samuel Sulemana Fuseini has acknowledged that his Asante ancestors
accumulated their great wealth by abducting, capturing, and kidnapping Africans
and selling them as slaves. Likewise, Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Awoonor has
written: “I believe there is a great psychic shadow over Africa, and it has
much to do with our guilt and denial of our role in the slave trade. We too are
blameworthy in what was essentially one of the most heinous crimes in human
history. (Wait, it gets worse)
In 2000, President Mathieu
Kerekou’s made an apology for his country’s role in “selling fellow Africans by
the millions to white slave traders.” “We cry for forgiveness and
reconciliation, We share in the responsibility for this terrible human
tragedy.” A year later, Senegal’s president Abdoulaye
Wade, “himself the descendant of generations of slave-owning [and
slave-trading] African kings,” urged Europeans, Americans, and Africans to
acknowledge publicly and teach openly about their (Africa's) shared
responsibility for the Atlantic slave trade.
Wade’s remarks came months after the release of Adanggaman,
by Ivory Coast director Roger Gnoan M’bala, “the first African film to look at
African involvement in the slave trade with the West.” “It’s up to us,” M’Bala
insisted, “to talk about slavery, open the wounds of what we’ve always hidden
and stop being puerile when we put responsibility on others . . . . "
"In our own oral tradition,
slavery is left out purposefully because Africans are ashamed when we confront
slavery. Let’s wake up and look at ourselves through our own image. “It is
simply true,” declared Da Bourdia Leon of Burkina Faso’s Ministry of Culture
and Art, “We need this kind of film to show our children this part of our
history, that it happened among us. Although I feel sad, I think it is good
that this kind of thing is being told today.” (A society and culture will never
heal if it doesn't recognize it true role.
Africans hurt Africans more than any other culture.)
Several television
productions have acknowledged these facts: Africans in America (PBS,
1998), Wonders of the African World (PBS, 1999), and The
African Trade (History Channel International, 2000). The latter begins
with the visit by a group of African-Americans to the infamous slave castle and
Door of No Return on Goree Island off the coast of Senegal. “Appalled by the
cruelties of the Europeans,” the narrator relates, “the visitors become curious
as to how Africans fell into their hands.” Their African guide admits that
“this history is difficult to tell and hard to believe” but pulls no punches
about African complicity in kidnapping and selling millions (MILLIONS SOLD,
some estimates suggest that less than 60,000 slaves were ever held in America) of
African people: “All the tribes were involved in the slave trade—no
exemptions.”
The Obamas visit the place where their ancestors sold their ancestors into slavery.
The African-Americans were
staggered: “So we really can’t blame the Europeans,” one declares, “We sold our
own.” Another visitor declares, “That’s right—money and greed.” (black participation
lets no one off the hook)
The Obamas visit the place where their ancestors sold their ancestors into slavery.
The African-Americans were staggered: “So we really can’t blame the Europeans,” one declares, “We sold our own.” Another visitor declares, “That’s right—money and greed.” (black participation lets no one off the hook)
The historical record is
incontrovertible—as documented in the PBS Africans in America series
companion book: "The white man
did not introduce slavery to Africa . . . . And by the fifteenth century, men
with dark skin had become quite comfortable with the concept of man as property
. . . .(Man as property preempts slavery, indentured servants where quite
common in Europe where class, not race is what dictated your status. Parents would sell children to pay off debts
like the following case in the picture.)
(I
cover Mr. Johnson in more detail in the book; The Pacification of Humanity. I explain how ideology allowed for human ownership of humans.)
Long before the arrival of Europeans on West
Africa’s coast, the two continents (Europe and Africa) shared a common
acceptance of slavery as an unavoidable and necessary—perhaps even
desirable—fact of existence. The commerce between the two continents, as tragic
as it would become, developed upon familiar territory. Slavery was not a
twisted European manipulation, although Europe capitalized on a mutual
understanding and greedily expanded the slave trade. . . . "It was a
thunder that had no sound. Tribe stalked tribe, and eventually more than 20
million Africans would be kidnapped in their own homeland."
Historians estimate that
ten million of these abducted Africans “never even made it to the slave ships.
Most died on the march, some at sea—still chained, yoked, and shackled by their
African captors—before they ever laid eyes on a white slave trader. (Ask
yourself why these facts have been erased. The answer is simple; Ideological
Agenda) The survivors were either
purchased by European slave dealers or “instantly beheaded” by the African
traders “in sight of the [slave ship] captain” if they didn't purchase them or
they could not be sold because of their condition. (They had no value other
than as slaves, this is the origin of and genesis of the devalued black life. Initiated by black men.
See Chicago) Of course, the
horrific and inhuman middle passage—the voyage of a European (and later
American) slave ship from Africa to the Western Hemisphere—still lay before
those who had survived the forced trek to the coast."
WAKE UP
Failure to educate young
Americans about the whole story of the Atlantic slave trade
threatens to divide our nation even more and undermine our civic unity as well
as the belief in the historical legitimacy of our democratic institutions: Ideas
about reparation and social justice are a lie!
Education in a democracy
cannot promote half-truths about history without undermining the ideal of e
pluribus unum—one from many—and substituting a divisive emphasis on many
from one. The history of the slave trade proves that virtually everyone participated
and profited—whites and blacks; Christians, Muslims, and Jews; Europeans,
Africans, Americans, and Latin Americans. Once we recognize the shared
historical responsibility for the Atlantic slave trade, (and the holocaust) we can turn our
attention to “transforming the future” by eradicating its corrosive legacy.
No one is well served when “old myths of African
barbarism” are replaced by “new myths of African innocence.”
(The following is a more logistical accounting. We can not forget that the Muslims were major players in the African slave trades, 1000's of years before America was dreamed of. In fact the black Muslims only evolved as a means for black people to escape slavery as the Koran does not allow one Muslim to own another. The concept of the black or African Muslim makes that faith a slave religion for the African American. This fact has always puzzled this author who himself has Turkish ancestors. Africans Americans have been so mislead that they actually take Muslims names to replace slave names acquired after they were set free in America. More in the "The Pacification of Humanity.com")
SLAVERY HISTORY & THE AFRICAN COMPLICITY: Africans Captured and Sold Other Africans into Slavery
Authored by FactReal on July 8, 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfIcDEI1jWU
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