I keep hearing this argument in this class im taking about colonial Africa as well. Can it possibly be true that the University of south Florida is more reactionary than The Economist? Whenever the professor mentions the participation of the small sector of sell-out comprador Africans who traded other enslaved Africans to the European slavemasters, several white heads will nod enthusiastically as if reeling in pleasure as the burden of guilt drips off their shoulders. This insidious overemphasis on the minor agency of a tiny sector of Africans in the European-controlled slave trade is a POLITICAL argument to de-legimitize the demand for reparations, not an historical argument. And even in terms of history its a bunch of nonsense. Facts are facts. I dont care how many instances you can point to where some two or three African rulers collaborated with the white invaders. Look at the Portuguese coastal maps of Africa, they had markings on nearly every inch of every coast of the continent. The Europeans surrounded that land mass with brute force and terror from every angle. Africas economic life was crushed to bits by the arrival of the white man, whereas the importation of black bodies into the Americas lifted white people and Europe out of centuries of feudal barbarism. FACT. Division and collaboration from sectors of the colonized population with the colonial slavemaster has always been embedded in the fabric of imperial domination, from the days of slave ships to the days of Obama dropping bombs on Africa. The fact of the matter, however, and its the ugly fact that white people hate to face, is that Africa did not benefit from slavery, and Africans did not benefit from slavery-- white people did. Every white person, whether your ancestors actually brandished a whip or fled as immigrants centuries later to ascend upon the ladder of American opportunity constructed on the backs of enslaved African laborers and on the stolen land of the Native people. Facts are facts. Join the Days in Solidarity with African People campaign: uhurusolidarity.org
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 17:09:02 +0000
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