Another lie debunked-Africans did nothing before the white man
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Price Control and Monopolization
European monopoly firms operated by constantly fighting to gain control over raw materials , markets, and means of communications. Page 158
To add insult to the injury of robbing Black workers of decent wages, capitalists and colonizers charged Black buyers more for goods and services. And since white companies had control over entire nations, those companies exercised monopolies within their sectors.
This is a practice still alive and well today .
Colonial Government Policy and Taxation
The colonial government also prevented Africans from growing crops so that their labor would be available directly for the whites. One of the Kenya white settlers, Colonel Grogan, put it bluntly when he said of the Kikuyu : “We have stolen his land. Now we must steal his limbs. Compulsory labor is the corollary of our occupation of the country.” – Page 165
Everything African laborers produced for themselves was oppressively taxed.
Dr. Walter Rodney writes that “In those parts of the continent where land was still in African hands, colonial governments forced Africans to produce cash crops no matter how low the prices were. The favorite technique was taxation. Money taxes were introduced on numerous items-cattle, land, houses, and the people themselves. Money to pay taxes was got by growing cash crops or working on European farms or in their mines.”
Colonial policy conscripted every able bodied Black man, woman, and child who could work and fight to prop up their system of white supremacy. Africa became the largest labor camp on the planet.
To make matters worse, conscription was not limited to labor, but also included military service.
You have probably heard it said that “Africans fought and sold Africans during the colonial era”. This false assertion doesn’t take into account the fact that Africans were conscripted to fight against one another.
Black men and women in the British colonies were sent to war against Black women and men in French colonies, and all were dragged into Europe’s wars abroad.
For instance, the total number of Africans mobilized during World War II alone was about 2,350,000 men. Of that 2.3 Million, more than a million would lose their lives fighting Europe’s war.
Division of Labor
It is only the organization and resoluteness of the working class which protects it from the natural tendency of the capitalist to exploit to the utmost. That is why in all colonial territories, when African workers realized the necessity for trade union solidarity, numerous obstacles were placed in their paths by the colonial regimes.
One of the reasons unity is the biggest threat that existed – and still exists – against the system of white supremacy is that it threatens the economic foundation of the system.
By preventing workers from organizing, demanding higher wages, and threatening the profitability and monopoly of white enterprises, colonizers were able to preserve Africa’s underdeveloped status quo.
The division of labor was an important strategy used by white supremacy to maintain their control. It was for this very reason that Dr. Walter Rodney led the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), and why so many Black organizations have taken up the mantle of Socialism.
Growth Without Development
…growth in Africa under colonialism … did not enlarge the capacity of the society to deal with the natural environment, to adjudicate relations between members of the society, and to protect the population from external forces. – Page 234
Growth without development meant there was an expansion in the goods produced and available for consumption, but the means of producing those goods – industrial development – was absent.
Today, while there are more cars on the road, more gas stations to service those cars, and larger consumer markets, the cars, gas, and goods are all produced in China, Europe, or America.
Africans are able to buy more as consumers, but are unable to become producers due to technological arrest and other factors described throughout Dr. Walter Rodney’s book.
European monopoly firms operated by constantly fighting to gain control over raw materials , markets, and means of communications. Page 158
To add insult to the injury of robbing Black workers of decent wages, capitalists and colonizers charged Black buyers more for goods and services. And since white companies had control over entire nations, those companies exercised monopolies within their sectors.
This is a practice still alive and well today .
Colonial Government Policy and Taxation
The colonial government also prevented Africans from growing crops so that their labor would be available directly for the whites. One of the Kenya white settlers, Colonel Grogan, put it bluntly when he said of the Kikuyu : “We have stolen his land. Now we must steal his limbs. Compulsory labor is the corollary of our occupation of the country.” – Page 165
Everything African laborers produced for themselves was oppressively taxed.
Dr. Walter Rodney writes that “In those parts of the continent where land was still in African hands, colonial governments forced Africans to produce cash crops no matter how low the prices were. The favorite technique was taxation. Money taxes were introduced on numerous items-cattle, land, houses, and the people themselves. Money to pay taxes was got by growing cash crops or working on European farms or in their mines.”
Colonial policy conscripted every able bodied Black man, woman, and child who could work and fight to prop up their system of white supremacy. Africa became the largest labor camp on the planet.
To make matters worse, conscription was not limited to labor, but also included military service.
You have probably heard it said that “Africans fought and sold Africans during the colonial era”. This false assertion doesn’t take into account the fact that Africans were conscripted to fight against one another.
Black men and women in the British colonies were sent to war against Black women and men in French colonies, and all were dragged into Europe’s wars abroad.
For instance, the total number of Africans mobilized during World War II alone was about 2,350,000 men. Of that 2.3 Million, more than a million would lose their lives fighting Europe’s war.
Division of Labor
It is only the organization and resoluteness of the working class which protects it from the natural tendency of the capitalist to exploit to the utmost. That is why in all colonial territories, when African workers realized the necessity for trade union solidarity, numerous obstacles were placed in their paths by the colonial regimes.
One of the reasons unity is the biggest threat that existed – and still exists – against the system of white supremacy is that it threatens the economic foundation of the system.
By preventing workers from organizing, demanding higher wages, and threatening the profitability and monopoly of white enterprises, colonizers were able to preserve Africa’s underdeveloped status quo.
The division of labor was an important strategy used by white supremacy to maintain their control. It was for this very reason that Dr. Walter Rodney led the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), and why so many Black organizations have taken up the mantle of Socialism.
Growth Without Development
…growth in Africa under colonialism … did not enlarge the capacity of the society to deal with the natural environment, to adjudicate relations between members of the society, and to protect the population from external forces. – Page 234
Growth without development meant there was an expansion in the goods produced and available for consumption, but the means of producing those goods – industrial development – was absent.
Today, while there are more cars on the road, more gas stations to service those cars, and larger consumer markets, the cars, gas, and goods are all produced in China, Europe, or America.
Africans are able to buy more as consumers, but are unable to become producers due to technological arrest and other factors described throughout Dr. Walter Rodney’s book.
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So besides being smarter than proto humans, and finding them easy to manipulate... What other grievances do you hold against humans?Price Control and Monopolization
European monopoly firms operated by constantly fighting to gain control over raw materials , markets, and means of communications. Page 158
To add insult to the injury of robbing Black workers of decent wages, capitalists and colonizers charged Black buyers more for goods and services. And since white companies had control over entire nations, those companies exercised monopolies within their sectors.
This is a practice still alive and well today .
Colonial Government Policy and Taxation
The colonial government also prevented Africans from growing crops so that their labor would be available directly for the whites. One of the Kenya white settlers, Colonel Grogan, put it bluntly when he said of the Kikuyu : “We have stolen his land. Now we must steal his limbs. Compulsory labor is the corollary of our occupation of the country.” – Page 165
Everything African laborers produced for themselves was oppressively taxed.
Dr. Walter Rodney writes that “In those parts of the continent where land was still in African hands, colonial governments forced Africans to produce cash crops no matter how low the prices were. The favorite technique was taxation. Money taxes were introduced on numerous items-cattle, land, houses, and the people themselves. Money to pay taxes was got by growing cash crops or working on European farms or in their mines.”
Colonial policy conscripted every able bodied Black man, woman, and child who could work and fight to prop up their system of white supremacy. Africa became the largest labor camp on the planet.
To make matters worse, conscription was not limited to labor, but also included military service.
You have probably heard it said that “Africans fought and sold Africans during the colonial era”. This false assertion doesn’t take into account the fact that Africans were conscripted to fight against one another.
Black men and women in the British colonies were sent to war against Black women and men in French colonies, and all were dragged into Europe’s wars abroad.
For instance, the total number of Africans mobilized during World War II alone was about 2,350,000 men. Of that 2.3 Million, more than a million would lose their lives fighting Europe’s war.
Division of Labor
It is only the organization and resoluteness of the working class which protects it from the natural tendency of the capitalist to exploit to the utmost. That is why in all colonial territories, when African workers realized the necessity for trade union solidarity, numerous obstacles were placed in their paths by the colonial regimes.
One of the reasons unity is the biggest threat that existed – and still exists – against the system of white supremacy is that it threatens the economic foundation of the system.
By preventing workers from organizing, demanding higher wages, and threatening the profitability and monopoly of white enterprises, colonizers were able to preserve Africa’s underdeveloped status quo.
The division of labor was an important strategy used by white supremacy to maintain their control. It was for this very reason that Dr. Walter Rodney led the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), and why so many Black organizations have taken up the mantle of Socialism.
Growth Without Development
…growth in Africa under colonialism … did not enlarge the capacity of the society to deal with the natural environment, to adjudicate relations between members of the society, and to protect the population from external forces. – Page 234
Growth without development meant there was an expansion in the goods produced and available for consumption, but the means of producing those goods – industrial development – was absent.
Today, while there are more cars on the road, more gas stations to service those cars, and larger consumer markets, the cars, gas, and goods are all produced in China, Europe, or America.
Africans are able to buy more as consumers, but are unable to become producers due to technological arrest and other factors described throughout Dr. Walter Rodney’s book.
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Correct me if I'm wrong... this "white fragility" trope you're clinging to... was coined by an apologetic white who profited from negros?
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So besides being smarter than proto humans, and finding them easy to manipulate... What other grievances do you hold against humans?Price Control and Monopolization
European monopoly firms operated by constantly fighting to gain control over raw materials , markets, and means of communications. Page 158
To add insult to the injury of robbing Black workers of decent wages, capitalists and colonizers charged Black buyers more for goods and services. And since white companies had control over entire nations, those companies exercised monopolies within their sectors.
This is a practice still alive and well today .
Colonial Government Policy and Taxation
The colonial government also prevented Africans from growing crops so that their labor would be available directly for the whites. One of the Kenya white settlers, Colonel Grogan, put it bluntly when he said of the Kikuyu : “We have stolen his land. Now we must steal his limbs. Compulsory labor is the corollary of our occupation of the country.” – Page 165
Everything African laborers produced for themselves was oppressively taxed.
Dr. Walter Rodney writes that “In those parts of the continent where land was still in African hands, colonial governments forced Africans to produce cash crops no matter how low the prices were. The favorite technique was taxation. Money taxes were introduced on numerous items-cattle, land, houses, and the people themselves. Money to pay taxes was got by growing cash crops or working on European farms or in their mines.”
Colonial policy conscripted every able bodied Black man, woman, and child who could work and fight to prop up their system of white supremacy. Africa became the largest labor camp on the planet.
To make matters worse, conscription was not limited to labor, but also included military service.
You have probably heard it said that “Africans fought and sold Africans during the colonial era”. This false assertion doesn’t take into account the fact that Africans were conscripted to fight against one another.
Black men and women in the British colonies were sent to war against Black women and men in French colonies, and all were dragged into Europe’s wars abroad.
For instance, the total number of Africans mobilized during World War II alone was about 2,350,000 men. Of that 2.3 Million, more than a million would lose their lives fighting Europe’s war.
Division of Labor
It is only the organization and resoluteness of the working class which protects it from the natural tendency of the capitalist to exploit to the utmost. That is why in all colonial territories, when African workers realized the necessity for trade union solidarity, numerous obstacles were placed in their paths by the colonial regimes.
One of the reasons unity is the biggest threat that existed – and still exists – against the system of white supremacy is that it threatens the economic foundation of the system.
By preventing workers from organizing, demanding higher wages, and threatening the profitability and monopoly of white enterprises, colonizers were able to preserve Africa’s underdeveloped status quo.
The division of labor was an important strategy used by white supremacy to maintain their control. It was for this very reason that Dr. Walter Rodney led the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), and why so many Black organizations have taken up the mantle of Socialism.
Growth Without Development
…growth in Africa under colonialism … did not enlarge the capacity of the society to deal with the natural environment, to adjudicate relations between members of the society, and to protect the population from external forces. – Page 234
Growth without development meant there was an expansion in the goods produced and available for consumption, but the means of producing those goods – industrial development – was absent.
Today, while there are more cars on the road, more gas stations to service those cars, and larger consumer markets, the cars, gas, and goods are all produced in China, Europe, or America.
Africans are able to buy more as consumers, but are unable to become producers due to technological arrest and other factors described throughout Dr. Walter Rodney’s book.
There is no such thing as a proto human.
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Yeah... nothing came before humans... Sounds legit...So besides being smarter than proto humans, and finding them easy to manipulate... What other grievances do you hold against humans?Price Control and Monopolization
European monopoly firms operated by constantly fighting to gain control over raw materials , markets, and means of communications. Page 158
To add insult to the injury of robbing Black workers of decent wages, capitalists and colonizers charged Black buyers more for goods and services. And since white companies had control over entire nations, those companies exercised monopolies within their sectors.
This is a practice still alive and well today .
Colonial Government Policy and Taxation
The colonial government also prevented Africans from growing crops so that their labor would be available directly for the whites. One of the Kenya white settlers, Colonel Grogan, put it bluntly when he said of the Kikuyu : “We have stolen his land. Now we must steal his limbs. Compulsory labor is the corollary of our occupation of the country.” – Page 165
Everything African laborers produced for themselves was oppressively taxed.
Dr. Walter Rodney writes that “In those parts of the continent where land was still in African hands, colonial governments forced Africans to produce cash crops no matter how low the prices were. The favorite technique was taxation. Money taxes were introduced on numerous items-cattle, land, houses, and the people themselves. Money to pay taxes was got by growing cash crops or working on European farms or in their mines.”
Colonial policy conscripted every able bodied Black man, woman, and child who could work and fight to prop up their system of white supremacy. Africa became the largest labor camp on the planet.
To make matters worse, conscription was not limited to labor, but also included military service.
You have probably heard it said that “Africans fought and sold Africans during the colonial era”. This false assertion doesn’t take into account the fact that Africans were conscripted to fight against one another.
Black men and women in the British colonies were sent to war against Black women and men in French colonies, and all were dragged into Europe’s wars abroad.
For instance, the total number of Africans mobilized during World War II alone was about 2,350,000 men. Of that 2.3 Million, more than a million would lose their lives fighting Europe’s war.
Division of Labor
It is only the organization and resoluteness of the working class which protects it from the natural tendency of the capitalist to exploit to the utmost. That is why in all colonial territories, when African workers realized the necessity for trade union solidarity, numerous obstacles were placed in their paths by the colonial regimes.
One of the reasons unity is the biggest threat that existed – and still exists – against the system of white supremacy is that it threatens the economic foundation of the system.
By preventing workers from organizing, demanding higher wages, and threatening the profitability and monopoly of white enterprises, colonizers were able to preserve Africa’s underdeveloped status quo.
The division of labor was an important strategy used by white supremacy to maintain their control. It was for this very reason that Dr. Walter Rodney led the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), and why so many Black organizations have taken up the mantle of Socialism.
Growth Without Development
…growth in Africa under colonialism … did not enlarge the capacity of the society to deal with the natural environment, to adjudicate relations between members of the society, and to protect the population from external forces. – Page 234
Growth without development meant there was an expansion in the goods produced and available for consumption, but the means of producing those goods – industrial development – was absent.
Today, while there are more cars on the road, more gas stations to service those cars, and larger consumer markets, the cars, gas, and goods are all produced in China, Europe, or America.
Africans are able to buy more as consumers, but are unable to become producers due to technological arrest and other factors described throughout Dr. Walter Rodney’s book.
There is no such thing as a proto human.
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Correct me if I'm wrong... this "white fragility" trope you're clinging to... was coined by an apologetic white who profited from negros?
No. It was done by a white person who defeated their own racism and now gets paid to do seminars with white people. It ain't no trope. You guys do it every day.
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Owned by another white... You fuckers practically fasten the chains yourself... it's so easy. No wonder you've been abused by all humans who've encountered you...Correct me if I'm wrong... this "white fragility" trope you're clinging to... was coined by an apologetic white who profited from negros?
No. It was done by a white person who defeated their own racism and now gets paid to do seminars with white people. It ain't no trope. You guys do it every day.
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Yeah... nothing came before humans... Sounds legit...So besides being smarter than proto humans, and finding them easy to manipulate... What other grievances do you hold against humans?Price Control and Monopolization
European monopoly firms operated by constantly fighting to gain control over raw materials , markets, and means of communications. Page 158
To add insult to the injury of robbing Black workers of decent wages, capitalists and colonizers charged Black buyers more for goods and services. And since white companies had control over entire nations, those companies exercised monopolies within their sectors.
This is a practice still alive and well today .
Colonial Government Policy and Taxation
The colonial government also prevented Africans from growing crops so that their labor would be available directly for the whites. One of the Kenya white settlers, Colonel Grogan, put it bluntly when he said of the Kikuyu : “We have stolen his land. Now we must steal his limbs. Compulsory labor is the corollary of our occupation of the country.” – Page 165
Everything African laborers produced for themselves was oppressively taxed.
Dr. Walter Rodney writes that “In those parts of the continent where land was still in African hands, colonial governments forced Africans to produce cash crops no matter how low the prices were. The favorite technique was taxation. Money taxes were introduced on numerous items-cattle, land, houses, and the people themselves. Money to pay taxes was got by growing cash crops or working on European farms or in their mines.”
Colonial policy conscripted every able bodied Black man, woman, and child who could work and fight to prop up their system of white supremacy. Africa became the largest labor camp on the planet.
To make matters worse, conscription was not limited to labor, but also included military service.
You have probably heard it said that “Africans fought and sold Africans during the colonial era”. This false assertion doesn’t take into account the fact that Africans were conscripted to fight against one another.
Black men and women in the British colonies were sent to war against Black women and men in French colonies, and all were dragged into Europe’s wars abroad.
For instance, the total number of Africans mobilized during World War II alone was about 2,350,000 men. Of that 2.3 Million, more than a million would lose their lives fighting Europe’s war.
Division of Labor
It is only the organization and resoluteness of the working class which protects it from the natural tendency of the capitalist to exploit to the utmost. That is why in all colonial territories, when African workers realized the necessity for trade union solidarity, numerous obstacles were placed in their paths by the colonial regimes.
One of the reasons unity is the biggest threat that existed – and still exists – against the system of white supremacy is that it threatens the economic foundation of the system.
By preventing workers from organizing, demanding higher wages, and threatening the profitability and monopoly of white enterprises, colonizers were able to preserve Africa’s underdeveloped status quo.
The division of labor was an important strategy used by white supremacy to maintain their control. It was for this very reason that Dr. Walter Rodney led the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), and why so many Black organizations have taken up the mantle of Socialism.
Growth Without Development
…growth in Africa under colonialism … did not enlarge the capacity of the society to deal with the natural environment, to adjudicate relations between members of the society, and to protect the population from external forces. – Page 234
Growth without development meant there was an expansion in the goods produced and available for consumption, but the means of producing those goods – industrial development – was absent.
Today, while there are more cars on the road, more gas stations to service those cars, and larger consumer markets, the cars, gas, and goods are all produced in China, Europe, or America.
Africans are able to buy more as consumers, but are unable to become producers due to technological arrest and other factors described throughout Dr. Walter Rodney’s book.
There is no such thing as a proto human.
And the first humans appear to have been Africans.
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You're owned by another white?Owned by another white...Correct me if I'm wrong... this "white fragility" trope you're clinging to... was coined by an apologetic white who profited from negros?
No. It was done by a white person who defeated their own racism and now gets paid to do seminars with white people. It ain't no trope. You guys do it every day.
Yeah... nothing came before humans... Sounds legit...So besides being smarter than proto humans, and finding them easy to manipulate... What other grievances do you hold against humans?Price Control and Monopolization
European monopoly firms operated by constantly fighting to gain control over raw materials , markets, and means of communications. Page 158
To add insult to the injury of robbing Black workers of decent wages, capitalists and colonizers charged Black buyers more for goods and services. And since white companies had control over entire nations, those companies exercised monopolies within their sectors.
This is a practice still alive and well today .
Colonial Government Policy and Taxation
The colonial government also prevented Africans from growing crops so that their labor would be available directly for the whites. One of the Kenya white settlers, Colonel Grogan, put it bluntly when he said of the Kikuyu : “We have stolen his land. Now we must steal his limbs. Compulsory labor is the corollary of our occupation of the country.” – Page 165
Everything African laborers produced for themselves was oppressively taxed.
Dr. Walter Rodney writes that “In those parts of the continent where land was still in African hands, colonial governments forced Africans to produce cash crops no matter how low the prices were. The favorite technique was taxation. Money taxes were introduced on numerous items-cattle, land, houses, and the people themselves. Money to pay taxes was got by growing cash crops or working on European farms or in their mines.”
Colonial policy conscripted every able bodied Black man, woman, and child who could work and fight to prop up their system of white supremacy. Africa became the largest labor camp on the planet.
To make matters worse, conscription was not limited to labor, but also included military service.
You have probably heard it said that “Africans fought and sold Africans during the colonial era”. This false assertion doesn’t take into account the fact that Africans were conscripted to fight against one another.
Black men and women in the British colonies were sent to war against Black women and men in French colonies, and all were dragged into Europe’s wars abroad.
For instance, the total number of Africans mobilized during World War II alone was about 2,350,000 men. Of that 2.3 Million, more than a million would lose their lives fighting Europe’s war.
Division of Labor
It is only the organization and resoluteness of the working class which protects it from the natural tendency of the capitalist to exploit to the utmost. That is why in all colonial territories, when African workers realized the necessity for trade union solidarity, numerous obstacles were placed in their paths by the colonial regimes.
One of the reasons unity is the biggest threat that existed – and still exists – against the system of white supremacy is that it threatens the economic foundation of the system.
By preventing workers from organizing, demanding higher wages, and threatening the profitability and monopoly of white enterprises, colonizers were able to preserve Africa’s underdeveloped status quo.
The division of labor was an important strategy used by white supremacy to maintain their control. It was for this very reason that Dr. Walter Rodney led the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), and why so many Black organizations have taken up the mantle of Socialism.
Growth Without Development
…growth in Africa under colonialism … did not enlarge the capacity of the society to deal with the natural environment, to adjudicate relations between members of the society, and to protect the population from external forces. – Page 234
Growth without development meant there was an expansion in the goods produced and available for consumption, but the means of producing those goods – industrial development – was absent.
Today, while there are more cars on the road, more gas stations to service those cars, and larger consumer markets, the cars, gas, and goods are all produced in China, Europe, or America.
Africans are able to buy more as consumers, but are unable to become producers due to technological arrest and other factors described throughout Dr. Walter Rodney’s book.
There is no such thing as a proto human.
And the first humans appear to have been Africans.
So what.
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Owned by another white... You fuckers practically fasten the chains yourself... it's so easy. No wonder you've been abused by all humans who've encountered you...Correct me if I'm wrong... this "white fragility" trope you're clinging to... was coined by an apologetic white who profited from negros?
No. It was done by a white person who defeated their own racism and now gets paid to do seminars with white people. It ain't no trope. You guys do it every day.
White fragility doesn't apply to me dumb ass. It does to you. And your behavior right now shows it.
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It means we invented civilization.Yeah... nothing came before humans... Sounds legit...So besides being smarter than proto humans, and finding them easy to manipulate... What other grievances do you hold against humans?Price Control and Monopolization
European monopoly firms operated by constantly fighting to gain control over raw materials , markets, and means of communications. Page 158
To add insult to the injury of robbing Black workers of decent wages, capitalists and colonizers charged Black buyers more for goods and services. And since white companies had control over entire nations, those companies exercised monopolies within their sectors.
This is a practice still alive and well today .
Colonial Government Policy and Taxation
The colonial government also prevented Africans from growing crops so that their labor would be available directly for the whites. One of the Kenya white settlers, Colonel Grogan, put it bluntly when he said of the Kikuyu : “We have stolen his land. Now we must steal his limbs. Compulsory labor is the corollary of our occupation of the country.” – Page 165
Everything African laborers produced for themselves was oppressively taxed.
Dr. Walter Rodney writes that “In those parts of the continent where land was still in African hands, colonial governments forced Africans to produce cash crops no matter how low the prices were. The favorite technique was taxation. Money taxes were introduced on numerous items-cattle, land, houses, and the people themselves. Money to pay taxes was got by growing cash crops or working on European farms or in their mines.”
Colonial policy conscripted every able bodied Black man, woman, and child who could work and fight to prop up their system of white supremacy. Africa became the largest labor camp on the planet.
To make matters worse, conscription was not limited to labor, but also included military service.
You have probably heard it said that “Africans fought and sold Africans during the colonial era”. This false assertion doesn’t take into account the fact that Africans were conscripted to fight against one another.
Black men and women in the British colonies were sent to war against Black women and men in French colonies, and all were dragged into Europe’s wars abroad.
For instance, the total number of Africans mobilized during World War II alone was about 2,350,000 men. Of that 2.3 Million, more than a million would lose their lives fighting Europe’s war.
Division of Labor
It is only the organization and resoluteness of the working class which protects it from the natural tendency of the capitalist to exploit to the utmost. That is why in all colonial territories, when African workers realized the necessity for trade union solidarity, numerous obstacles were placed in their paths by the colonial regimes.
One of the reasons unity is the biggest threat that existed – and still exists – against the system of white supremacy is that it threatens the economic foundation of the system.
By preventing workers from organizing, demanding higher wages, and threatening the profitability and monopoly of white enterprises, colonizers were able to preserve Africa’s underdeveloped status quo.
The division of labor was an important strategy used by white supremacy to maintain their control. It was for this very reason that Dr. Walter Rodney led the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), and why so many Black organizations have taken up the mantle of Socialism.
Growth Without Development
…growth in Africa under colonialism … did not enlarge the capacity of the society to deal with the natural environment, to adjudicate relations between members of the society, and to protect the population from external forces. – Page 234
Growth without development meant there was an expansion in the goods produced and available for consumption, but the means of producing those goods – industrial development – was absent.
Today, while there are more cars on the road, more gas stations to service those cars, and larger consumer markets, the cars, gas, and goods are all produced in China, Europe, or America.
Africans are able to buy more as consumers, but are unable to become producers due to technological arrest and other factors described throughout Dr. Walter Rodney’s book.
There is no such thing as a proto human.
And the first humans appear to have been Africans.
So what.
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Monoculture
In Senegal and Gambia, ground nuts accounted for 85 to 90 percent of money earnings . In effect, two African colonies were told to grow nothing but peanuts! – Page 235
Capitalist colonizers were not interested in using African labor to grow anything that was not evidently profitable.
All the diverse crops that had been harvested for generations and used to diversify the African diet were removed in favor of crops produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
Not only did monoculture and cash cropping lead to limited streams of income for African nations (since they had only one crop to sell rather than an array), it led to the next source of underdevelopment…
Undernourishment
Colonialism created conditions which led not just to periodic famine but to chronic undernourishment, malnutrition, and deterioration in the physique of the African people. – Page 236
When scientists examined the condition of pre-colonial Sub-Saharan African skeletons, they found that almost none of them showed any clinical signs of dietary deficiency. One of the most striking indications of the superiority of indigenous African diet is the magnificent condition of the teeth.
One researcher among six ethnic groups in Kenya could not find a single case of tooth decay, not a single deformation of dental arch.
But when those same people were transplanted and put on the “civilized” diet available under colonialism, their teeth began to decay at once.
This undernourishment was the result of both monoculture and the unavailability of more nutritious food due to taxation and restrictions.
Miseducation
The main purpose of the colonial school system was to train Africans to help man the local administration at the lowest ranks and to staff the private capitalist firms owned by Europeans… Colonial schooling was education for subordination, exploitation, the creation of mental confusion, and the development of underdevelopment.
Miseducation is defined as the cultivation of an alien identity. It was through this process of convincing African’s that they were in fact French, British, or some other European proxy that African’s began to willingly participate in their own destruction.
It was those Africans who best emulated white values who were given positions of authority and marginally higher standards of living.
Over time, the French speaking, white educated Black man lost interest in developing his own nation and instead assisted his colonial master with the further colonization of his own people.
White Values
One constant factor was disgust with the way that Europeans forced Africans to identify as Europeans . Revolting against that concept, one Zulu Independent church put the question to the local population : “Are you a Jew or a Zulu? Were you there when they crucified their Lord?” Nevertheless, many Africans came to accept the dehumanizing principle of alienation from self. – Page 254
When we look at works like those produced by Dr. Walter Rodney, we see that there are 5 “original values” that our people have used to build Black civilizations. Those original values are:
â–ş Collectivism
â–ş Cooperation
â–ş Common heritage
â–ş Natural law
â–ş and Contribution
By contrast, there are 5 values that have guided white nations since their blood-soaked inception. Those values are:
â–ş Individualism
â–ş Ownership
â–ş Conflict and control
â–ş Manipulation
â–ş and Consumerism
When original values came to resemble white values, the destruction of Black culture and society had been completed.
In Senegal and Gambia, ground nuts accounted for 85 to 90 percent of money earnings . In effect, two African colonies were told to grow nothing but peanuts! – Page 235
Capitalist colonizers were not interested in using African labor to grow anything that was not evidently profitable.
All the diverse crops that had been harvested for generations and used to diversify the African diet were removed in favor of crops produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
Not only did monoculture and cash cropping lead to limited streams of income for African nations (since they had only one crop to sell rather than an array), it led to the next source of underdevelopment…
Undernourishment
Colonialism created conditions which led not just to periodic famine but to chronic undernourishment, malnutrition, and deterioration in the physique of the African people. – Page 236
When scientists examined the condition of pre-colonial Sub-Saharan African skeletons, they found that almost none of them showed any clinical signs of dietary deficiency. One of the most striking indications of the superiority of indigenous African diet is the magnificent condition of the teeth.
One researcher among six ethnic groups in Kenya could not find a single case of tooth decay, not a single deformation of dental arch.
But when those same people were transplanted and put on the “civilized” diet available under colonialism, their teeth began to decay at once.
This undernourishment was the result of both monoculture and the unavailability of more nutritious food due to taxation and restrictions.
Miseducation
The main purpose of the colonial school system was to train Africans to help man the local administration at the lowest ranks and to staff the private capitalist firms owned by Europeans… Colonial schooling was education for subordination, exploitation, the creation of mental confusion, and the development of underdevelopment.
Miseducation is defined as the cultivation of an alien identity. It was through this process of convincing African’s that they were in fact French, British, or some other European proxy that African’s began to willingly participate in their own destruction.
It was those Africans who best emulated white values who were given positions of authority and marginally higher standards of living.
Over time, the French speaking, white educated Black man lost interest in developing his own nation and instead assisted his colonial master with the further colonization of his own people.
White Values
One constant factor was disgust with the way that Europeans forced Africans to identify as Europeans . Revolting against that concept, one Zulu Independent church put the question to the local population : “Are you a Jew or a Zulu? Were you there when they crucified their Lord?” Nevertheless, many Africans came to accept the dehumanizing principle of alienation from self. – Page 254
When we look at works like those produced by Dr. Walter Rodney, we see that there are 5 “original values” that our people have used to build Black civilizations. Those original values are:
â–ş Collectivism
â–ş Cooperation
â–ş Common heritage
â–ş Natural law
â–ş and Contribution
By contrast, there are 5 values that have guided white nations since their blood-soaked inception. Those values are:
â–ş Individualism
â–ş Ownership
â–ş Conflict and control
â–ş Manipulation
â–ş and Consumerism
When original values came to resemble white values, the destruction of Black culture and society had been completed.
Vastator
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- Oct 14, 2014
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Like trying to be something you're not..?Monoculture
In Senegal and Gambia, ground nuts accounted for 85 to 90 percent of money earnings . In effect, two African colonies were told to grow nothing but peanuts! – Page 235
Capitalist colonizers were not interested in using African labor to grow anything that was not evidently profitable.
All the diverse crops that had been harvested for generations and used to diversify the African diet were removed in favor of crops produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
Not only did monoculture and cash cropping lead to limited streams of income for African nations (since they had only one crop to sell rather than an array), it led to the next source of underdevelopment…
Undernourishment
Colonialism created conditions which led not just to periodic famine but to chronic undernourishment, malnutrition, and deterioration in the physique of the African people. – Page 236
When scientists examined the condition of pre-colonial Sub-Saharan African skeletons, they found that almost none of them showed any clinical signs of dietary deficiency. One of the most striking indications of the superiority of indigenous African diet is the magnificent condition of the teeth.
One researcher among six ethnic groups in Kenya could not find a single case of tooth decay, not a single deformation of dental arch.
But when those same people were transplanted and put on the “civilized” diet available under colonialism, their teeth began to decay at once.
This undernourishment was the result of both monoculture and the unavailability of more nutritious food due to taxation and restrictions.
Miseducation
The main purpose of the colonial school system was to train Africans to help man the local administration at the lowest ranks and to staff the private capitalist firms owned by Europeans… Colonial schooling was education for subordination, exploitation, the creation of mental confusion, and the development of underdevelopment.
Miseducation is defined as the cultivation of an alien identity. It was through this process of convincing African’s that they were in fact French, British, or some other European proxy that African’s began to willingly participate in their own destruction.
It was those Africans who best emulated white values who were given positions of authority and marginally higher standards of living.
Over time, the French speaking, white educated Black man lost interest in developing his own nation and instead assisted his colonial master with the further colonization of his own people.
White Values
One constant factor was disgust with the way that Europeans forced Africans to identify as Europeans . Revolting against that concept, one Zulu Independent church put the question to the local population : “Are you a Jew or a Zulu? Were you there when they crucified their Lord?” Nevertheless, many Africans came to accept the dehumanizing principle of alienation from self. – Page 254
When we look at works like those produced by Dr. Walter Rodney, we see that there are 5 “original values” that our people have used to build Black civilizations. Those original values are:
â–ş Collectivism
â–ş Cooperation
â–ş Common heritage
â–ş Natural law
â–ş and Contribution
By contrast, there are 5 values that have guided white nations since their blood-soaked inception. Those values are:
â–ş Individualism
â–ş Ownership
â–ş Conflict and control
â–ş Manipulation
â–ş and Consumerism
When original values came to resemble white values, the destruction of Black culture and society had been completed.
IM2
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- Mar 11, 2015
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- #1,460
Dr. Walter Rodney had this to say: “Perhaps the most important principle of colonial education was that of capitalist individualism…The capitalist system [champions and protects] the rights of the individual property owners against the rights of the mass of exploited workers and peasants.
When capitalism had its impact on Africa in the colonial period, the idea of individualism was already in its reactionary phase.
It was no longer serving to liberate the majority but rather to enslave the majority for the benefit of a few.
When individualism was applied to land, it meant that the notions of private ownership and the transfer of land through sale became prevalent in some parts of the continent.
Much more widespread was the new understanding that individual labor should benefit the person concerned and not some wider collective, such as the clan or ethnic group.
Thus, the practice of collective labor and egalitarian social distribution gave way to accumulative tendencies.
The Myth Of Capitalist Exceptionalism
It is a common myth within capitalist thought that the individual through drive and hard work can become a capitalist.
In the U.S.A., it is usual to refer to an individual like John D. Rockefeller, Sr. , as someone who rose “from rags to riches.” To complete the moral of the Rockefeller success story, it would be necessary to fill in the details on all the millions of people who had to be exploited in order for one man to become a multimillionaire.
The acquisition of wealth is not due to hard work alone, or the Africans working as slaves in America and the West Indies would have been the wealthiest group in the world. The individualism of the capitalist must be seen against the hard and unrewarded work of the masses.
In Africa, both the formal school system and the informal value system of colonialism destroyed social solidarity and promoted the worst form of alienated individualism without social responsibility.
That delayed the political process through which the society tried to regain its independence.
When capitalism had its impact on Africa in the colonial period, the idea of individualism was already in its reactionary phase.
It was no longer serving to liberate the majority but rather to enslave the majority for the benefit of a few.
When individualism was applied to land, it meant that the notions of private ownership and the transfer of land through sale became prevalent in some parts of the continent.
Much more widespread was the new understanding that individual labor should benefit the person concerned and not some wider collective, such as the clan or ethnic group.
Thus, the practice of collective labor and egalitarian social distribution gave way to accumulative tendencies.
The Myth Of Capitalist Exceptionalism
It is a common myth within capitalist thought that the individual through drive and hard work can become a capitalist.
In the U.S.A., it is usual to refer to an individual like John D. Rockefeller, Sr. , as someone who rose “from rags to riches.” To complete the moral of the Rockefeller success story, it would be necessary to fill in the details on all the millions of people who had to be exploited in order for one man to become a multimillionaire.
The acquisition of wealth is not due to hard work alone, or the Africans working as slaves in America and the West Indies would have been the wealthiest group in the world. The individualism of the capitalist must be seen against the hard and unrewarded work of the masses.
In Africa, both the formal school system and the informal value system of colonialism destroyed social solidarity and promoted the worst form of alienated individualism without social responsibility.
That delayed the political process through which the society tried to regain its independence.
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