Ending Slavery Blame-Game: Africas Black-on-Black Slavery-for-Profit Empire: The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa

Ending the Slavery Blame Game

By Henry Louis Gates Jr., New York Times
Published: April 22, 2010 | (Excerpts)

The Slave Market (1867), by Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904): a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax.

THANKS to an unlikely confluence of history and genetics — the fact that he is African-American and president — Barack Obama has a unique opportunity to reshape the debate over one of the most contentious issues of America’s racial legacy: reparations, the idea that the descendants of American slaves should receive compensation for their ancestors’ unpaid labor and bondage.

There are many thorny issues to resolve before we can arrive at a judicious (if symbolic) gesture to match such a sustained, heinous crime. Perhaps the most vexing is how to parcel out blame to those directly involved in the capture and sale of human beings for immense economic gain.

While we are all familiar with the role played by the United States and the European colonial powers like Britain, France, Holland, Portugal and Spain, there is very little discussion of the role Africans themselves played. And that role, it turns out, was a considerable one, especially for the slave-trading kingdoms of western and central Africa. These included the Akan of the kingdom of Asante in what is now Ghana, the Fon of Dahomey (now Benin), the Mbundu of Ndongo in modern Angola and the Kongo of today’s Congo, among several others.

For centuries, Europeans in Africa kept close to their military and trading posts on the coast. Exploration of the interior, home to the bulk of Africans sold into bondage at the height of the slave trade, came only during the colonial conquests, which is why Henry Morton Stanley’s pursuit of Dr. David Livingstone in 1871 made for such compelling press: he was going where no (white) man had gone before.

Slavery Secret: Africans sold Africans into Slavery.. Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on PBS: "Africans sold other Africans to the Europeans..... There were African middlemen and they'd fight wars with other Africans to enslave them and to sell them to the white man.... Slavery was a huge business for different African kingdoms..... The story that we got when we were kids...it's not how it happened..... Africans sold other Africans to the Europeans."

How did slaves make it to these coastal forts? The historians John Thornton and Linda Heywood of Boston University estimate that 90 percent of those shipped to the New World were enslaved by Africans and then sold to European traders. The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

Advocates of reparations for the descendants of those slaves generally ignore this untidy problem of the significant role that Africans played in the trade, choosing to believe the romanticized version that our ancestors were all kidnapped unawares by evil white men, like Kunta Kinte was in “Roots.” The truth, however, is much more complex: slavery was a business, highly organized and lucrative for European buyers and African sellers alike.

ICC wants to know about Charles Taylor Blood Diamonds to Naomi Campbell at Nelson Mandela Charity Party on 25 September 1997

Mandela party photo that put Naomi Campbell in 'blood diamond' storm

War crimes trial of former Liberian president may rest on events surrounding 1997 photograph taken at party in South Africa

Ed Pilkington in New York guardian.co.uk,
Friday 23 July 2010 18.06 BST

Nelson Mandela is pictured with guests at a party in South Africa in 1997. The interaction of Charles Taylor, Naomi Campbell and Mia Farrow at the event is likely to come under the spotlight at The Hague when Farrow and Campbell appear as witnesses at Taylor's war crimes trial. Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex Features [Guardian]

The picture speaks volumes. At the centre of a group of 10 people stands Nelson Mandela and beside him his partner and later wife, Graça Machel. On Mandela's other flank is a short man dressed in a military-style jacket with his hand held out as though he, and not the great South African leader, was hosting the gathering.

He is Charles Taylor, and the photograph was taken a month after he was elected president of Liberia. Now Taylor is in prison at The Hague, the first African president to face trial for war crimes.

First European Farming Settlers in S. Africa passed law forbidding slavery in 1636; 200 years before William Wilberforce's Abolition Movement

“This excerpt is a reminder that the relationship between Europeans and their colonies was more nuanced than the postmodern anti-Orientalists would have us believe. Many — if not most — Europeans who ventured into the heart of darkness believed it was their Christian responsibility to treat the heathen with solicitousness and compassion. It was evident to them that God had created the colonial races as the childlike inferiors of the Europeans, and it was their duty as good Christians to act as wise stewards of their charges, aiding and protecting them as they brought them into the light.”

“We find it easy now to look back on such attitudes and sneer, but it’s important to remember that these were enlightened and progressive ideas of their day. The slave-traders who plied the coastal markets and bought up shiploads of human cargo were the brutal exploiters, but the farmers who settled the interior did so with the intention of doing what was right in the eyes of God.”

“And this law was enacted in 1636, almost two hundred years before William Wilberforce spearheaded the great movement to end the slave trade. Meanwhile, Muslim Arabs had been enslaving black Africans for nearly a thousand years prior to that time, and would continue doing so for another three centuries. Yet the first European settlers in southern Africa were the ones who passed a law forbidding slavery.”

ANC's ‘Operation Child Sex Slavery Production’: SA allegedly tackles World Cup Child Trafficking Fears

Thato's “granny” sold her into sexual slavery. The woman who bought her was running a sex ring that police are still investigating to find out how many children were involved. Allegedly Thato's parents, who ‘gave’ Thato away to “granny”; probably had no idea that the “granny” would sell their daughter; whom they gave away for free. SA tackles World Cup child-trafficking fears

“All [young girls or women] opposing the wishes of the [ANC young cadres] were reminded, that it was every woman’s obligation to give birth to new “soldiers”, in order to replace those warriors killed in the liberation struggle. The idiom of the adolescents referred to these patriotic efforts as “operation production”. Because of exactly this reason it was forbidden for the girls to use contraceptives.” (Delius 1996:189; Niehaus 1999:250)
-- Africanisation of RSA: ANC's Occult “Struggle” Politics: Witchcraft and the State in South Africa

» This grant will reach three million of South Africa's poorest children, rather than the 300,000 who presently receive the state maintenance grant
» Unlike the old maintenance grant, this grant will not be limited to a certain number of children in one family. Because the grant is made to the child, through the care-giver, a child will not suffer because of the size of his or her family
-- African National Congress: Welfare Laws Amendment Bill, 1997: Social Assistance Act [to enable the poor to breed more poverty?]

» “Our objective should be to assure that developing countries make family planning information, education and means available to all their peoples by 1980.” [Page 130]
» “...there is general agreement that up to the point when cost per acceptor rises rapidly, family planning expenditures are generally considered the best investment a country can make in its own future.” [Page 53]
-- National Security Study Memo. 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth, April 1974[Note: NSSM200 was submitted to World Leaders at the Third World Population Conference in Bucharest, Romania, August 1974; which focussed on the relationship between population issues and development. NSSM200 was not implemented for the Third World, because Black African Leaders said it was “racist”. It is “racist” to discuss and enable population policies to prevent children being procreated for sexual slavery, economic slavery, child trafficking, child prostitution, child abuse, child homelessness, etc. etc.]

Will Africa for Africans Final Solution 2 Exterminate Whites from Africa Grossly Aggravate return of Slavery.Inc & Tribal Mob Justice, aka Xenophobia?

Will Africa for the Africans Final Solution to Exterminate Whites from Africa Grossly Aggravate the return of Slavery.Inc and Tribal Mob Justice, aka Xenophobia?

Africa for Africans: Exterminating White People from Africa (PDF):

In an interview with CNN in September 2009, Robert Mugabe once again stated his support for the Final Solution and Extermination of White Farmers from Zimbabwe, as the ‘best thing to have happened to an African nation.’

When asked how things could have gone so wrong, from liberation of Zimbabwe by ‘reconciliation with the whites’, Mugabe responded that everybody knew, ZANU-PF’s Land Reform Intentions, in regards to White Settlers.

Children as African Occult Cannon Fodder Child Soldiers