Posted on 04/03/2021 12:22:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Last year Joe Biden said African Americans who don’t support him “ain’t black,” but this year the Delaware Democrat is open to reparations for slavery, America’s “original sin,” according to the composite character president David Garrow described in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. A neglected historical account provides enlightenment on slavery’s true origins and its most enduring practitioners.
In 1856, British Army officer John Hanning Speke set out to find the source of the Nile. Speke’s massive Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile documents the African societies he found, and the widespread practice of slavery. “To catch slaves is the first thought of every chief in the interior,” Speke wrote, “Hence fights and slavery impoverish the land.”
Many Africans were “caught in wars, as may be seen every day in Africa, made slaves of, and sold to the Arabs for a few yards of common cloth, brass wire, or beads. They would then be taken to Zanzibar, resold like horses to the highest bidder, and then kept in bondage by their new masters.”
As slaves, the Africans were “circumcised to make Mussulmans of them, that their hands might be ‘clean’ to slaughter their master’s cattle and extend his creed. For the Arabs believe the day must come when the tenets of Mohammed will be accepted by all men.” True to form, “the slave is willed to his successor.”
On Arab slave ships, “old women, stark naked, were dying in the most disgusting ‘ferret box’ atmosphere.” By contrast, “Slavery had received a severe blow by the sharp measures Colonel Rigby had taken in giving tickets of emancipation to all those slaves our Indian subjects the Banyans had been secretly keeping.”
Speke found an ally in chief Mbumi who “knew that the English were the ruling power in that land, and that they were opposed to slavery.” In some parts of Africa, Speke found, “cows, sheep, slaves have to be given to the father for the value of his daughter.” The Wahuma people kept slaves and “do not allow their daughters to taint their blood by marrying outside of the clan.”
Black Africans were not the only target for Arab slave traders. As Roger Crowley notes in Empires of the Sea, Muslims were raiding Europe for slaves well into the 1800s. Mohammed did not condemn slavery, which had been standard practice in Africa centuries before any European set foot there. So contrary to the composite character president, the “original sin” of slavery was not America’s.
Leftist Democrats, so eager to condemn the United States, seem unaware that slavery continues in African nations such as Mauritania, where as much as 20 percent of the population is enslaved. In January, Ahmed Salem Bouhoubeyni of Mauritania’s human rights commission told the Africa Report, “some of our neighbors have a bigger slavery problem than we do.” For example, in Mali, “slavery is not even on the books as a criminal offence.”
In Africa, slavery endures 158 years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, 188 years after the British abolished slavery, and 165 years since John Speke set out to find the source of the Nile. Africa’s “bigger slave problem” is more of a pressing concern than reparations in the United States.
The prime mover for reparations is Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee, who in 2000 supported the forced return of Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez to Fidel Castro’s Communist dictatorship. Jackson Lee reportedly has 173 co-sponsors for her reparations bill, but newly elected Utah Republican Rep. Burgess Owens takes a different view.
“Though it is impractical and a nonstarter for the United States government to pay reparations, it is also unfair and heartless to give black Americans the hope that this is a reality,” said Owens, whose great-great-grandfather escaped slavery through the Underground Railroad and became a successful entrepreneur.
For Larry Elder, “reparations is the extraction of money from people who were never slave owners to be given to people who were never slaves.” Elder cites Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson that America, while flawed in race relations is “now the least racist white-majority society in the world; has a better record of legal protection of minorities than any other society, white or Black; offers more opportunities to a greater number of Black persons than any other society, including all those of Africa.”
Thirty years after Patterson made that statement, slavery still thrives in parts of Africa. When John Speke went there in 1856, Africans were enslaving each other and Muslim Arabs were enslaving Africans. By contrast, the British were freeing slaves and John Speke’s African helpers were richly rewarded. As Speke noted in his Journal, “they all volunteered to go with me again, should I attempt to cross Africa from east to west through the fertile zone.”
Slavery only existed in America for 89 years. Prior to 1776 that was Great Britain slavery.
Tired of this getting glossed over.
The people pretending to be aggrieved by 1619 slavery do not give a hoot about real 2021 slavery, and frequently they enable it.
Also, slavery only existed in the Confederate States of America for 4 years.
When the Arabs and any American blacks with genetic ties to slave trading tribes apologize for slavery first, I’ll possibly consider apologizing were there any gentic ties of my own (there are not).
Anytime one wants to begin the reparations conversation, I am always first to say fine, here is your boat and or plane ticket to your country of origin. Your choice. Live here where since the end of slavery in 1865 slavery has been not lawful. Since then the country has tried its best to even the playing field. So the choice as a free person is stay and shut the hell up or go to where you think your lot in life would be better. One proviso, you cannot come back if you go.
I am beyond tired of hearing of this crap especially since none of my ancestors owned or were slaves at any time in recorded history, here or in our country of origin.
However the Blacks “always and forever a victim” mentality will never let that go. Otherwise they'd have t take responsibility for their life today and we've made it far too easy for them to thrive on welfare, with live in boyfriends working, and getting paid for every kid they have.
So, to extend the revealed truth to its conclusion, Democrat hypocrites are complicit with both domestic and international slavery through their ideology and their actions. Ignorance is the driving force among the weak minded purveyors of CRT. Prove me wrong.
The slave does not dream of being free. He dreams of revenge. He wants to be the slavemaster, not the slave. See BLM for evidence.
I think good reparations would be to put blacks on free, one way flights to Liberia.
No Honkies there, problem solved.
In fact they don’t care about anything other than furthering their agenda. Facts don’t matter to them. All of this circulating on conservative websites means nothing to them nor the public. None of this ever gets out into the MSM.
Reparations?
I’LL give ya reparations!
Here’s a free trip to the land where your ancestors were caught, and enslaved. Feel free to hunt down the descendants of their captors, and settle the old family score by whatever means you choose.
Come on back when you’ve got it all outta your system. If you survive, that is.
Oh, and another thing...
Your choice is between this offer and NOTHING, and only for a limited time.
Slavery has been endemic throughout history. It is noted in the Bible. It endured in China, especially under the Mongols. Slav - Slave.
Baker, who along with Speke are known for their exploration of the Nile, was married to a European woman with long blond hair who he bought at an Arab slave market in Romania. Reparations? Instead, offer American Blacks who are unhappy a payment of ten grand and a free ticket to Africa. As Marcus Garvey found out, there would be few takers.
The book THE DEFEAT OF JOHN HAWKINS by Rayner Unwin, gives us a good look at the African slave trade.
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If you wanted slaves all you had to do was sail to Dahomey in West Africa.
The Dahomeans revelled in capturing slaves from weaker tribes and would trade them for cheap firearms and alcohol.
The slave pens of Dahomey filled on a yearly basis, and any slaves not sold by a certain date were put to a grisly death in Dahomean religious ceremonies.
In fact any african-american of west african origin is likely descended from a Dahomean slave saved from execution by a slave trader.
Of course I am ineligible for reparations since my ancestors came to America wearing chains - but on English convict ships.
Marcus Garvey founded the Black Star Line shipping company.
It consisted of ships purchased with contributions from Garvey’s followers - who were hired to work as crew for the ships.
The Black Star Line went bankrupt because its employees pilfered anything of value on the ships that wasn’t welded down.
On my fathers side, my family came here as INDENTURED SERVANTS (in other words “SLAVES”), deported from England because they were WELSH HIGHWAYMEN so it is said.
My Mothers family came here from Prussia after the loss at the Battle of SAALFELD.
My Fathers side of the family were escaped “WHITE SLAVES”, my Mothers side of the family were defeated Prussian soldiers.
We were always to poor to own any slaves, as any livestock was very expensive.
You have hit the nail on the head. Those people are still slaves.
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