Posted on 07/23/2008 8:22:35 AM PDT by Righting
Arabs.. racism.. it exists...
word 'abd - Arabic for "slave" - often used in our household... so common ..its negative connotations.. to anyone darker skin than themselves - from southern Sudanese house servants to migrants from Darfur- clear intent to demean.. addressing a particularly dark-skinned or thick-lipped child.
was a kind of racism that no one challenged, addressed,..through a child's eyes.. on a scale of colour, lighter was good, darker was bad. The word 'abd, although strictly meaning "slave" or "servant", became synonymous with negritude. my Islamic heritage reinforced this with quotes from Muhammad such as "You should listen to and obey your ruler even if he was an Ethiopian [ie black] slave whose head looks like a raisin" (Sahih Bukhari).
When we moved to E. Africa.. 'abd was seamlessly transferred to the locals whom we interacted only in their capacity as domestic staff , grounds-keepers at international schools. While I myself was "black" of North African descent, my family believed its Arab roots were somehow genetically dominant, giving us smaller features and a marginally lighter skin tone - deeming ourselves to be an entirely a different race from "pure" Africans.
Our next move was to Saudi Arabia, where the Arab ethnicity with which I identified so strongly was suddenly cast into doubt: now it was my turn to be the "slave". My belief that I was an Arab, racially superior to non-Arab Africans, became laughable in the heartland of Arabia - a place where "Arabness" was not only determined by skin colour but by whether you could uninterruptedly trace your lineage back to the founding father of your clan. In fact, ancestry is so important in Saudi Arabia that courts have the power to annul a marriage if gaps are later discovered in a person's lineage.. blood line pollution.
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What I want to say will get me banned.
Don't confuse democrats/journalists/victimologists with the facts.
When I was in North Africa in 1974 there were still slave markets where black Africans were sold to Arabs.
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Yet the Arabs for some reason have no problem accepting a certain Sen. Barak Obama during his recent tour of the ME and Europe.
They still exist, albeit less openly.
Yes, tell it to Sharpton or to Obama...
They still exist, albeit less openly.
Yes they do, in Sudan, Mauritanian, Saudi Arabia...
Worse than that. Approximatelly the same number of Black Africans was sold as slaves and transported to the Americas and to the Muslim world.
The slaves transported to the Americas left more than hundred million descendants.
The slaves transported to the Arab countries left almost none ! They were all worked to death.
This genocide of Black Africans in the hands of Muslims is comparable to to the Muslim genocide of Hindus.
I can understand why the WASP Liberals overlook it and why they hide it. They make travesty of the fact that Muslim world was OPPRESSOR FOR 500 years, and oppressed by the West for less than 100.
The fact that many African Americans are also willing accomplice in this travesty of truth is beyond me.
Why some embrace the cult that murdered hundreds of millions of their ancestors escapes logic and sense of dignity.
That's because Barack Hussien Obama on his trip said; "I want, I want, everyone to like me."
This is a comment he made when he said someone else was going to pick out who got to ask him the questions. He didn't want to look like he was playing favorites.
Is that anything like "caucatude"?
Bookmarked.
Because their "us against them" worldview leaves little room for logic and reason.
negritude ; (also Negritude)
noun
the quality or fact of being of black African origin.
• the affirmation or consciousness of the value of black or African culture, heritage, and identity : Negritude helped to guide Senegal into independence with pride.
ORIGIN 1950s: from French négritude ‘blackness.’
Learn something every day, don’t you?
Middle Easterners have no sense of political correctness. If someone thinks that dark skin is unattractive or if someone dislikes blacks, they have no problem expressing themselves. That said, it’s not hard to see Saudi, Yemeni, Omani, & Gulf Arabs who clearly have black African blood from some ancestor. The least black Arabs are from Sham.
In Arabia, there are two channels devoted to marriage advertisements 24/7. One of the most common criteria that men wanted in a wife was light skin (most common criteria was to be tribal). For women looking for a husband, it was money.
The miserable results of post-colonial Africa can be directly traced to the Negritude movement.
It's true; it's actual; everything is satisfactual!
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