Saturday, January 14, 2017

AFRICANS CREATED AFRICAN SLAVERY. WANT REPARATION; SEE YOUR GRANDFATHER

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 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
AFRICAN COMPLICITY IN SLAVERY:
“Many Africans…accumulated enormous wealth and power as a result of the trade of their fellow Africans.”
“Not only was slavery an established institution in West Africa before European traders arrived, but Africans were also involved in a trans-Saharan trade in slaves along these routes.”
 

CONFRONTING THE LEGACY OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE

By Zayde Antrim
Historically, West Africa is associated with the slave, gold and ivory trades, perhaps most often the former. West Africa is also the place of origin of vodou, the only indigenous African religion to survive the trans-Atlantic slave trade and remain in practice in the Americas today. The historical roots of racial discrimination in the United States today can be traced back to North American slavery but the kidnapping of more than 20 million Africans was done by Africans. It is easily assumed, that the African slave trade pit brutal, gun-wielding European slaver traders against unsuspecting, passive African victims. While the Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, English and French slave traders were often brutal, they were not always working alone, they were taught these barbaric practices by Africans who were also complicit in this victimization. Precolonial empires such asDahomey and Ashanti (located in what is now Benin and Ghana), where slave ports at Ouidah and Elmina flourished, accumulated enormous wealth and power as a result of the trade of their fellow Africans.
In fact, Europeans often acted as junior partners to African rulers, merchants, and middlemen in the slave trade along the West African coast from the mid-15th century on. Two factors contributed to this dependency: the coastal geography and the diseases of West Africa. Seasonal wind patterns along the Atlantic coast of Africa generated heavy surf and dangerous crosscurrents, which in turn buffeted a land almost entirely lacking in natural harbors. Hazardous offshore reefs and sandbars complicated the matter even further for seafarers along the West African coast. European commerce in West Africa took place, therefore, most often on ships anchored well away from shore and dependent on skilled African canoe-men whose ability to negotiate across the hazardous stretch of water between the mainland and the waiting ships made the Atlantic trade possible. Even in places where Europeans were able to conduct trade on the mainland, their presence was limited by an epidemiological situation that impeded their livelihood and threatened their lives. Malaria, dysentery, yellow fever, and other diseases reduced the few Europeans living and trading along the West African coast to a chronic state of ill health and earned Africa the name “white man’s grave.” In this environment, European merchants were rarely in a position to call the shots.
Furthermore, when Europeans first initiated a trading relationship with West Africans in the mid-15th century they encountered well-established and highly-developed political organizations and competitive regional commercial networks. Europeans relied heavily on the African rulers and mercantile classes at whose mercy, more often than not, they gained access to the commodities they desired. European military technology was not effective enough to allow them this access by means of force on a consistent basis until the 19th century. Therefore it was most often Africans, especially those elite coastal rulers and merchants who controlled the means of coastal and river navigation, under whose authority and to whose advantage the Atlantic trade was conducted.
Domestic slave ownership as well as domestic and international slave trades in western Africa preceded the late 15th-century origins of the Atlantic slave trade. Since most West African societies did not recognize private property in land, slaves functioned as one of the only profitable means of production individuals could own. West Africans, therefore, acquired and expressed wealth in terms of dependent people, whether as kin, clients, or slaves.
Moreover, caravan routes had long linked sub-Saharan African peoples with North Africa and the wider Mediterranean and Middle Eastern worlds.

Not only was slavery an established institution in West Africa before European traders arrived, but Africans were also involved in a trans-Saharan trade in slaves along these routes. African rulers and merchants were thus able to tap into preexisting methods and networks of enslavement to supply European demand for slaves. Enslavement was most often a byproduct of local warfare, kidnapping, or the manipulation of religious and judicial institutions. Military, political, and religious authority within West Africa determined who controlled access to the Atlantic slave trade. And some African elites, such as those in theDahomey and Ashanti empires, took advantage of this control and used it to their profit by enslaving and selling other Africans to European traders.
It is important to distinguish between European slavery and African slavery. In most cases, slavery systems in Africa were more like indentured servitude in that the slaves retained some rights and children born to slaves were generally born free. The slaves could be released from servitude and join a family clan. In contrast, European slaves were chattel, or property, who were stripped of their rights. The cycle of slavery was perpetual; children of slaves would, by default, also be slaves.
Although the historical reality is sometimes difficult to accept by African Americans who still face racial discrimination over a century after the abolition of slavery, African complicity in the slave trade neither justifies today’s social problems nor minimizes their seriousness. Fifteenth-century Africa, was not a homogenous group of people. Some African elites benefited from the enslavement of their rivals, their enemies, their poor, and other culturally foreign groups from the 15th century through the 18th and even into the 19th centuries. Class, language, religion, gender, and ethnicity divided Africans, and it was along these lines that certain Africans participated in the slave trade. Understanding the dynamics of African complicity in the slave trade is important in understanding Africans as historically active and diverse human beings. This understanding should not detract from the horrors of the slave trade or from its American legacy of inequality and racism.

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