Posted on 09/19/2024 9:09:05 PM PDT by Cronos
When an Arab militia rampaged through Maryam Suleiman’s village in the Darfur region of Sudan last year and lined up men and boys to massacre, the gunmen were blunt about their purpose.
“We don’t want to see any Black people,” a militia leader said, adding mockingly: “We don’t even want to see black trash bags.” To make his point, Maryam recalled, he shot a donkey because it was black.
Then the militia members executed men and boys who belonged to Black African ethnic groups, she said. “They shot my five brothers, one after the other,” Maryam told me, describing how her youngest brother survived the first bullet and called out to her. Then a militia member shot him in the head and sneeringly asked her what she thought of that.
The militia tried to systematically kill all the males over 10, Maryam said, and also killed some younger ones. A 1-day-old boy was thrown to the ground and killed, and one male infant was thrown into a pond to drown, she said.
The gunmen then rounded up the women and girls in a corral to rape, she added. “They raped many, many girls,” she recalled. One man tried to rape Maryam, she said, and when he failed he beat her. She was pregnant and suffered a miscarriage.
“You’re slaves,” Maryam quoted the militia members as saying. “There is no place for you Black people in Sudan.” So Maryam fled to neighboring Chad and is one of more than 10 million Sudanese who have been forcibly displaced since a civil war began last year in the country and ignited pogroms against Black African ethnic groups like hers
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Neither European countries nor the USA nor Canada etc. HAVE to do anything about it. The people who should be taking primary action are Arabs and East Africans.
As to “doing something about it” - there are plenty of Americans and French and Brits etc. who are in Medecins san Frontieres and Oxfam and Caritas that ARE on the ground helping the victims. Don’t discount those noble people
Why isn’t the EU trying to help out in the Sudan? It’s their backyard.
No one cares about whites in the USA. The are being taxed to death, crushed by inflation and a 3rd world invasion.
The article also points out that this is "racial" on the face of it, yet both groups are similar in skin tone, but the "Arabs" are nomadic herders and the "blacks" are sedentary agriculturists
I think roots of this can go back to the Arab invasions of Nubia and Christian Nubia
Did you know that Sudan was a thriving and peaceful Christian place (Nubia) before the Mohammednas?
I think we need to learn about it as it is an intrinsic part of our history.
But demonizing people of today for the sins of 200 years ago is, as you point out, stupid.
It is also highly likely that the people claiming descent from slaves also have slave-owners blood in them and vice-versa.
For me the more interesting part is trying to understand why Christians thought it was ok to enslave other people and how they justified it to themselves. Christianity had eliminated slavery in Christendom (Europe, the Levant and NOrth Africa) by the 7th century, and yet people forgot this.
Some changed - like the writer of “Amazing grace” - he was a captain of a slave transport ship, but later became an abolitionist.
What was the “click” that suddenly made the English (first) suddenly say “this is wrong!”
I see that happened around 1800 - with William Wilberforce (a hero who should be better known) and Olaudah Equiano and Francis Barber. The UK went from being a massive user of slaves to spending millions to stop slave ships.
It is an interesting “why” imho
But demonizing people of today for the sins of 200 years ago is, as you point out, stupid.
It is also highly likely that the people claiming descent from slaves also have slave-owners blood in them and vice-versa.
For me the more interesting part is trying to understand why Christians thought it was ok to enslave other people and how they justified it to themselves. Christianity had eliminated slavery in Christendom (Europe, the Levant and NOrth Africa) by the 7th century, and yet people forgot this.
Some changed - like the writer of "Amazing grace" - he was a captain of a slave transport ship, but later became an abolitionist.
What was the "click" that suddenly made the English (first) suddenly say "this is wrong!"
I see that happened around 1800 - with William Wilberforce (a hero who should be better known) and Olaudah Equiano and Francis Barber. The UK went from being a massive user of slaves to spending millions to stop slave ships.
It is an interesting "why" imho
“William Wilberforce (a hero who should be better known)”
So true.
The EU has put economic sanctions
https://www.dw.com/en/sudan-conflict-eu-warns-of-another-genocide-in-darfur/a-67381833
But militarily, they are focused on Ukraine.
The genocide in Sudan doesn’t threaten American or Western European interests, so no one cares to interfere militarily.
To my mind we should talk about Sudan to
1. Point out the hypocrisy of the Islamic world
2. Point out to the Arabs and the horn of Africa that this is their problem and they should handle it if they want anyone to take them seriously
It’s also not America’s problem. We need to fix this country first.
If you want to slaughter black people with the enthusiastic support of western progressives, just go to work for Planned Parenthood.
Racist Mohammedans. Post; great thread BUMP!
They are busy trying to crank up WWIII so they just don’t have time for it.
Y’all have it wrong.
It is not about race it is how you live and react with others.
If you are an a$$hole people won’t like you.
most USA blacks are a$$holes to others.
They are “entitled”.
Personally If I wanted to be a slave owner
it would be a white person.
Yes there were lots of white slaves in early America.
Smarter and more trust worthy.
NYT makes its money off race baiting.
[They are busy trying to crank up WWIII]
What could possibly go wrong?
“What are the black Marxists in our own Congress going to say about the Arab Militia genocide of black Sudanese?”
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Nothing, not one word.
Those idiot liberals like Robin di Angelo who claim that America is systemically racist don’t know what racism is. She needs to go to the killing fields of Sudan or the slave markets of Libya to find out.
Was this Kristof fellow surprised? Are we supposed to be surprised? This has been going on for centuries.
It’s amazing what the oh-so-civilized progressives can be surprised by when they venture out of their bubble a bit.
How unbelievably disgusting and horrifying! This is exactly how the Nazis behaved toward Jews, gypsies and others they murdered by the bushel.
King Solomon was right - there’s nothing new under the Sun (sadly).
How unbelievably disgusting and horrifying! This is exactly how the Nazis behaved toward Jews, gypsies and others they murdered by the bushel.
The thing people tend to forget is that the leaders of WWII mostly fought in WWI, where you saw the deaths of 10,000 a day on the battlefield. Also we saw the Armenian Genocide take place during that time. So really, the concept of a “Holocaust” wasn’t all that big of a deal to the Germans, even Hitler boasted, “Who cares today about the Armenian Genocide?”
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