black pride vs white pride

Bull.

Black pride has been used for decades to antagonize, rob, physically attack, psychologically attack, rape and kill whites and other non-blacks in a society where black people have more actual rights than anyone else.

And at the same white pride organizations have literally been the only voice for the rights of white people for decades as left wing parties seek to take advantage of our low birth rates and high mortality rates to win more political power and right wing parties ignore us to stay politically relevant in a increasing non-white western world.

Your worldview is extremely outdated, and it is about to become the opposite of reality as the tiny global minority loses all the political power we have left.

It was white pride terrorists who firebombed black churches and schools and lynched 3000 blacks

That is why white pride has such a negative reputation

REmember when you were off on the Age of Lynching by like 70 years?

That was funny.

It is the same ideology as 70 years ago

Only difference is we no longer tolerate it

No.

The difference is that that ideology has been defeated and you libs like to pretend it is still relevant so you can dismiss, smear and marginalize anyone that points out issues with your policies or positions.

David Duke got less than one percent of the vote when he ran for the Presidency.

Colin Powell, according to exit polls, the gold standard of polling, would have won a Presidential election as a Republican Candidate in a landslide.


YOu thought lynching was a major problem during the Civil Rights Era when it actually was from the turn of the century.


Because your Authority Figures were/are lying to you.
That ideology has not been defeated.......it has just been relegated to the shadows
Like USMB message boards

Voting is even more anonymous than message boards, and Duke got less than one percent.

At that low level you really have to wonder how much of that was errors in voting by mentally impaired people.

THe ideology has been defeated.

WHAT you need to consider is how enraging it is to have valid political points dismissed by some asshole lib with the Race Card.
 
It was white pride terrorists who firebombed black churches and schools and lynched 3000 blacks

That is why white pride has such a negative reputation

REmember when you were off on the Age of Lynching by like 70 years?

That was funny.

It is the same ideology as 70 years ago

Only difference is we no longer tolerate it

No.

The difference is that that ideology has been defeated and you libs like to pretend it is still relevant so you can dismiss, smear and marginalize anyone that points out issues with your policies or positions.

David Duke got less than one percent of the vote when he ran for the Presidency.

Colin Powell, according to exit polls, the gold standard of polling, would have won a Presidential election as a Republican Candidate in a landslide.


YOu thought lynching was a major problem during the Civil Rights Era when it actually was from the turn of the century.


Because your Authority Figures were/are lying to you.
That ideology has not been defeated.......it has just been relegated to the shadows
Like USMB message boards

Voting is even more anonymous than message boards, and Duke got less than one percent.

At that low level you really have to wonder how much of that was errors in voting by mentally impaired people.

THe ideology has been defeated.

WHAT you need to consider is how enraging it is to have valid political points dismissed by some asshole lib with the Race Card.
David Duke runs on......I am a racist

Most know better and use the appropriate buzz words to make it clear they will stand up for whites



.
 
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No.

The difference is that that ideology has been defeated and you libs like to pretend it is still relevant so you can dismiss, smear and marginalize anyone that points out issues with your policies or positions.

David Duke got less than one percent of the vote when he ran for the Presidency.

Colin Powell, according to exit polls, the gold standard of polling, would have won a Presidential election as a Republican Candidate in a landslide.


YOu thought lynching was a major problem during the Civil Rights Era when it actually was from the turn of the century.


Because your Authority Figures were/are lying to you.
That ideology has not been defeated.......it has just been relegated to the shadows
Like USMB message boards
You might want to check around this forum again, black supremacists are much more numerous.

Again, your thinking is outdated.

As the demographics change your stance on "that ideology" becomes more and more nonsensical, hypocritical and anti-white.
Bullshit

Read our Race forum sometimes

Our bigots are still with us.....they just have to resort to anonymous internet posts
Your bigots are proponents of black supremacy and white disenfranchisement like "Guno".

Are you too stupid to see racism when it doesn't come from a white person?
White disenfranchisement means white males no longer have the best jobs and political power reserved for them

They did not take it too well and resorted to terrorism to maintain their status


YOur justifications for anti-white discrimination are utterly ridiculous.
 
......and then the modern day repubs pulled the Southern Strategy.

No, they didn't.

That's a lie.
I think I'll believe their admission to it over your lone denial.


Morons who never question the lies their lib teachers told them.

Nixon was strong on Civil Rights. He never pandered to the racist dems of the South.
Nixon was a full blown cave monkey caught on tape talking about Blacks and jews you moron.


Your complete lack of appreciation for all he did for your people is a message to all whites.
 
REmember when you were off on the Age of Lynching by like 70 years?

That was funny.

It is the same ideology as 70 years ago

Only difference is we no longer tolerate it

No.

The difference is that that ideology has been defeated and you libs like to pretend it is still relevant so you can dismiss, smear and marginalize anyone that points out issues with your policies or positions.

David Duke got less than one percent of the vote when he ran for the Presidency.

Colin Powell, according to exit polls, the gold standard of polling, would have won a Presidential election as a Republican Candidate in a landslide.


YOu thought lynching was a major problem during the Civil Rights Era when it actually was from the turn of the century.


Because your Authority Figures were/are lying to you.
That ideology has not been defeated.......it has just been relegated to the shadows
Like USMB message boards

Voting is even more anonymous than message boards, and Duke got less than one percent.

At that low level you really have to wonder how much of that was errors in voting by mentally impaired people.

THe ideology has been defeated.

WHAT you need to consider is how enraging it is to have valid political points dismissed by some asshole lib with the Race Card.
David Duke runs on......I am a racist

Most know better and use the appropriate buzz words to make it clear they will stand up for whites


"Buzz words"?

THe Lib Myth of Code Words is based on a belief system in secret racism.

Such secret racism would have supported David Duke in the secrecy of the ballot box.

It did not. Because it is not there.

THe ideology has been defeated.

WHAT you need to consider is how enraging it is to have valid political points dismissed by some asshole lib with the Race Card.
 
It is the same ideology as 70 years ago

Only difference is we no longer tolerate it

No.

The difference is that that ideology has been defeated and you libs like to pretend it is still relevant so you can dismiss, smear and marginalize anyone that points out issues with your policies or positions.

David Duke got less than one percent of the vote when he ran for the Presidency.

Colin Powell, according to exit polls, the gold standard of polling, would have won a Presidential election as a Republican Candidate in a landslide.


YOu thought lynching was a major problem during the Civil Rights Era when it actually was from the turn of the century.


Because your Authority Figures were/are lying to you.
That ideology has not been defeated.......it has just been relegated to the shadows
Like USMB message boards

Voting is even more anonymous than message boards, and Duke got less than one percent.

At that low level you really have to wonder how much of that was errors in voting by mentally impaired people.

THe ideology has been defeated.

WHAT you need to consider is how enraging it is to have valid political points dismissed by some asshole lib with the Race Card.
David Duke runs on......I am a racist

Most know better and use the appropriate buzz words to make it clear they will stand up for whites


"Buzz words"?

THe Lib Myth of Code Words is based on a belief system in secret racism.

Such secret racism would have supported David Duke in the secrecy of the ballot box.

It did not. Because it is not there.

THe ideology has been defeated.

WHAT you need to consider is how enraging it is to have valid political points dismissed by some asshole lib with the Race Card.

Yes Buzz words
Republicans are very good at them

Dog-whistle politics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

U.S. law professor and author of the book Dog Whistle PoliticsIan Haney-López described Ronald Reagan as "blowing a dog whistle" when the candidate told stories about "Cadillac-driving 'welfare queens' and 'strapping young bucks' buying T-bone steaks with food stamps" while he was campaigning for the presidency.[17][18][19] In January 2016, Haney-López traced a brief history and introduction to whistle-blowing. "The republican party made a fateful decision in 63 that was then put into play in 64 that they are going to begin to use coded racial appeals, not the explicit language of white supremacy but a coded language that communicates, that stimulates racial anxiety, but that does so in technically race neutral terms."[20]
 
No.

The difference is that that ideology has been defeated and you libs like to pretend it is still relevant so you can dismiss, smear and marginalize anyone that points out issues with your policies or positions.

David Duke got less than one percent of the vote when he ran for the Presidency.

Colin Powell, according to exit polls, the gold standard of polling, would have won a Presidential election as a Republican Candidate in a landslide.


YOu thought lynching was a major problem during the Civil Rights Era when it actually was from the turn of the century.


Because your Authority Figures were/are lying to you.
That ideology has not been defeated.......it has just been relegated to the shadows
Like USMB message boards

Voting is even more anonymous than message boards, and Duke got less than one percent.

At that low level you really have to wonder how much of that was errors in voting by mentally impaired people.

THe ideology has been defeated.

WHAT you need to consider is how enraging it is to have valid political points dismissed by some asshole lib with the Race Card.
David Duke runs on......I am a racist

Most know better and use the appropriate buzz words to make it clear they will stand up for whites


"Buzz words"?

THe Lib Myth of Code Words is based on a belief system in secret racism.

Such secret racism would have supported David Duke in the secrecy of the ballot box.

It did not. Because it is not there.

THe ideology has been defeated.

WHAT you need to consider is how enraging it is to have valid political points dismissed by some asshole lib with the Race Card.

Yes Buzz words
Republicans are very good at them

Dog-whistle politics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

U.S. law professor and author of the book Dog Whistle PoliticsIan Haney-López described Ronald Reagan as "blowing a dog whistle" when the candidate told stories about "Cadillac-driving 'welfare queens' and 'strapping young bucks' buying T-bone steaks with food stamps" while he was campaigning for the presidency.[17][18][19] In January 2016, Haney-López traced a brief history and introduction to whistle-blowing. "The republican party made a fateful decision in 63 that was then put into play in 64 that they are going to begin to use coded racial appeals, not the explicit language of white supremacy but a coded language that communicates, that stimulates racial anxiety, but that does so in technically race neutral terms."[20]
I will take your "dog-whistle" BS and raise you blatant racism against white people from Democrats.

http://www.salon.com/2015/12/22/whi...y_future_of_the_planet_depends_on_it_partner/
 
What do whites have to be proud about that didnt involve genocide, thievery, lying, murder, and the slavery of other races?

Your hatred of Whites is illogical and your knowledge of racial history is pathetic.

You categorize Whites as slave owners, yet the overwhelming majority of Whites did not own slaves (around 90 per cent, give or take depending on the particular year's official census report). Further the fact that Blacks also owned Black slaves is etched in history as well although you might want to believe otherwise. Don't ask for a link. There are literally millions of links out there and I would not restrict you to a few of my selection.

When it comes to “thievery, lying and murder” Whites do not have a monopoly. I don't know the statistics from the distant past, but today, a much higher percentage of Blacks commit crime, especially violent crime, compared to Whites.

Finally, when it comes to enslavement of races, Whites have never enslaved an entire race, although a small percent (again, around 10 percent) legally owned slaves a long time ago. The only place where slavery is currently being practiced is in the Middle East and in Africa where one Black tribe enslave Black from other tribes. Don't try to pretend you do not know this.

There are both Black and White liars, thieves and murderers. There are also both Black and White geniuses and imbeciles, saints and sinners, heroes and cowards. I am an old man (76) and during my entire long lifetime no Black person has contributed anything to my life – or taken anything away - because of their Blackness. They enriched my life or hurt it because of what they said and what they did, not by the amount and type of melanin in their skin pigmentation.

Whenever I hear the words "Black Pride" or "White Pride," I instantly know I am in the presence of a fool. There is one word that defines both Black Pride and White Pride and that word is: Ego. There is no doubt that those Blacks who are chanting Black Pride would be promoting White Pride had they been born White. Italians are proud of being Italian Frenchmen are proud of being French, and almost every one is proud of there ancestry and place of birth. It's all about ego and there is nothing wrong with that as long as ego inspires one to make his/her life productive and worthwhile. However, when it leads to jealousy and hatred of others, it is the most vile and destructive of all human emotions.

I am White, but I take no pride in that fact. I have done much that I am proud, and a few things that I am ashamed of, but none of these things have a damn thing to do with my race.

Now, I have said what I wanted to and I am through with this thread. I don't have that much sand in the top of the hour glass and I will not waste my time explaining and defending that should be – to any enlightened person – the obvious.
 
White pride combats white guilt.

Anyone who wants white guilt to be the default mindset is a fucking idiot.

I mean this equally for you, shitflinger, David Duke, or Barack Obama:

{Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.

Racism claims that the content of a man’s mind (not his cognitive apparatus, but its content) is inherited; that a man’s convictions, values and character are determined before he is born, by physical factors beyond his control. This is the caveman’s version of the doctrine of innate ideas—or of inherited knowledge—which has been thoroughly refuted by philosophy and science. Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. It is a barnyard or stock-farm version of collectivism, appropriate to a mentality that differentiates between various breeds of animals, but not between animals and men.} - Ayn Rand
 
David Duke runs on......I am a racist

So does Barack Obama.

Most know better and use the appropriate buzz words to make it clear they will stand up for whites



.

For the left, racism is embraced - you simply point your racism at white people and imagine that it's good racism.

It isn't, racism is destructive regardless of who your intended victim is.
 
White pride combats white guilt.

Anyone who wants white guilt to be the default mindset is a fucking idiot.

I mean this equally for you, shitflinger, David Duke, or Barack Obama:

{Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.

Racism claims that the content of a man’s mind (not his cognitive apparatus, but its content) is inherited; that a man’s convictions, values and character are determined before he is born, by physical factors beyond his control. This is the caveman’s version of the doctrine of innate ideas—or of inherited knowledge—which has been thoroughly refuted by philosophy and science. Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. It is a barnyard or stock-farm version of collectivism, appropriate to a mentality that differentiates between various breeds of animals, but not between animals and men.} - Ayn Rand
You are going after the wrong guy, and you are quoting the wrong gal(at least on this subject).

"White pride" is not only about being tribal, it is expressing the need for the survival of people of European descent at a time when the abolition of the very idea of Europeaness is considered to be a foregone conclusion with our current trajectory. I don't care if white people or black people are superior, I just want my people to exist in the future in a free society.

I like the diversity of the human species and I wish to keep it.
 
Black pride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Black pride is a movement encouraging people to take pride in being black to various degrees.
The slogan has been used in the United States by African Americans to celebrate heritage and personal pride.


White pride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
White pride is a slogan primarily used by white separatist, white nationalist, neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizations to signal their racist or racialist viewpoints
Justin J. Moritz wrote that he tried to trademark the phrase "White Pride Country Wide" but it was denied for being offensive, despite that phrases like "Black Pride" and "Black Power" were trademarked

WTF?
What is confusing you?
The double standards are fuckin pathetic.
A black person proud to be black is an encouragement. A white person proud to be white is a goddamn NAZI.
Its bullshit. And racist as fuck.
Stop whining. I used to think it was a double standard but a young girl from Pakistan pointed it out to me. Whites have nothing to be proud of because they have overcome nothing where their race has held them back.
Who knew Mika Scarblower was a Paki?
 
Black pride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Black pride is a movement encouraging people to take pride in being black to various degrees.
The slogan has been used in the United States by African Americans to celebrate heritage and personal pride.


White pride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
White pride is a slogan primarily used by white separatist, white nationalist, neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizations to signal their racist or racialist viewpoints
Justin J. Moritz wrote that he tried to trademark the phrase "White Pride Country Wide" but it was denied for being offensive, despite that phrases like "Black Pride" and "Black Power" were trademarked

WTF?
What is confusing you?
The double standards are fuckin pathetic.
A black person proud to be black is an encouragement. A white person proud to be white is a goddamn NAZI.
Its bullshit. And racist as fuck.
Stop whining. I used to think it was a double standard but a young girl from Pakistan pointed it out to me. Whites have nothing to be proud of because they have overcome nothing where their race has held them back.
If anyone achieves anything it isnt because of their skin color. Being black isn't an achievement.
 
While I find it odd to be proud of something you have no control over, it is your business if you chose to do so.
 
What do whites have to be proud about that didnt involve genocide, thievery, lying, murder, and the slavery of other races?
You would still be chucking spears if your ancestors didn't trade your great great great granddaddy for a bucket of oranges. How is that for starters?
I doubt that since cities/businesses/universities existed in Africa when whitey got there. Africans really didn't do what you say.

The shit started with kidnapping and raids by whitey. Check it for yourself boy. Starring in 1544 I believe. Then there is this:

The Schomburg Center for the Research of Black Culture has excellent information about the African slave trade that provides a stark contrast between what happened and what some use as an excuse to discount the experiences of blacks in America. The web site is named, “The Abolition of the Slave Trade-African Resistance.” From the introduction, information contained in this collection debunks the race pimped tales presented by some in America today.

“Africans started to fight the transatlantic slave trade as soon as it began. Their struggles were multifaceted and covered four continents over four centuries. Still, they have often been underestimated, overlooked, or forgotten. African resistance was reported in European sources only when it concerned attacks on slave ships and company barracoons, but acts of resistance also took place far from the coast and thus escaped the slavers’ attention. To discover them, oral history, archaeology, and autobiographies and biographies of African victims of the slave trade have to be probed. Taken together, these various sources offer a detailed image of the varied strategies Africans used to defend themselves from and mount attacks against the slave trade.

The Africans’ resistance continued in the Americas. They ran away, established maroon communities, used sabotage, conspired, and rose against those who held them in captivity. Freed people petitioned the authorities, led information campaigns, and worked actively to abolish the slave trade and slavery.

In Europe, black abolitionists launched or participated in civic movements to end the deportation and enslavement of Africans. They too delivered speeches, provided information, wrote newspaper articles and books. Using violent as well as nonviolent means, Africans in Africa, the Americas, and Europe were constantly involved in the fight against the slave trade and slavery.”


The tale of Africa’s role in the slave trade as told by a segment of white society is incomplete and disingenuous. This has been done on purpose. It was not so simple as blacks capturing each other and selling them to whites. Europeans did not just waltz into Africa and overwhelm a bunch of backward, naked, dumb savages. They were in a fight for 400 years. Quite a number of Europeans entered Africa and Africa ended up being their final resting place.

“Some leaders actively worked against the transatlantic slave trade. One of the most famous was Abdel Kader Kane, the Muslim leader of the Futa Toro region in northern Senegal. Kane had succeeded in peopling his kingdom by retaking by force his people who had been kidnapped and by forbidding slave caravans from passing through his territory. After the French took three children from Futa, Kane sent a letter to the governor:

We are warning you that all those who will come to our land to trade [in slaves] will be killed and massacred if you do not send our children back. Would not somebody who was very hungry abstain from eating if he had to eat something cooked with his blood? We absolutely do not want you to buy Muslims under any circumstances. I repeat that if your intention is to always buy Muslims you should stay home and not come to our country anymore. Because all those who will come can be assured that they will lose their life.”


We are told stories about the shackles and chains, but we are not told the complete story of why they were needed. It is just “you sold your own into balls and chains.” But the story is just not that simple.

“As the slave trade expanded, resistance to it grew as well, and the need for shackles, guns, ropes, chains, iron balls, and whips tells an eloquent story of continuous and violent struggle from the hinterland to the high seas. As one slave trader remarked:

For the security and safekeeping of the slaves on board or on shore in the African barracoons, chains, leg irons, handcuffs, and strong houses are used. I would remark that this also is one of the forcible necessities resorted to for the preservation of the order, and as recourse against the dangerous consequences of this traffic.”

“Wherever possible, such as in Saint-Louis and Gorée (Senegal), James (Gambia), and Bance (Sierra Leone), the Europeans' barracoons were located on islands, which made escapes and attacks more difficult. In some areas, as soon as local people approached the boats, the crew is ordered to take up arms, the cannons are aimed, and the fuses are lighted . . . One must, without any hesitation, shoot at them and not spare them. The loss of the vessel and the life of the crew are at stake.”

“The heavily fortified forts and barracoons attest to the Europeans' distrust and apprehension. They had to protect themselves, as Jean-Baptiste Durand of the Compagnie du Sénégal explained, from the foreign vessels and from the Negroes living in the country."

“These precautions notwithstanding, in the eighteenth century, Fort Saint-Joseph on the Senegal River was attacked and all commerce was interrupted for six years. Several conspiracies and actual revolts by captives erupted on Gorée Island and resulted in the death of the governor and several soldiers. In addition, the crews of quite a few slave ships were killed on the River Gambia; in Sierra Leone, people sacked the captives' quarters of the infamous trader John Ormond. Similar incidents occurred in other parts of the African coast. Written records document how Africans on shore attacked more than a hundred ships.

Some Western slavers maintained occult centers in their barracoons, staffed by men they paid to work on the captives, sometimes with medicinal plants. The objective was to kill any spirit of rebellion, to tame the detainees, and make them accept their fate. The existence of these centers shows the extent of the precautions taken by slavers to prevent rebellions on land and during the Middle Passage: shackles and guns controlled the body, while the spirit was broken.

But revolts on slave ships, although extremely difficult to organize and conduct, were numerous. About 420 revolts have been documented in slavers' papers, and they do not represent the totality. It is estimated that 100,000 Africans died in uprisings on the coast or during the Middle Passage. The fear of revolts resulted in additional costs for the slavers: larger crews, heavy weapons, and barricades. About 18 percent of the costs of the Middle Passage were incurred due to measures to thwart uprisings, and the captives who rose up saved, according to estimates, one million Africans from deportation by driving up the slavers' expenses.”


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Black pride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Black pride is a movement encouraging people to take pride in being black to various degrees.
The slogan has been used in the United States by African Americans to celebrate heritage and personal pride.


White pride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
White pride is a slogan primarily used by white separatist, white nationalist, neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizations to signal their racist or racialist viewpoints
Justin J. Moritz wrote that he tried to trademark the phrase "White Pride Country Wide" but it was denied for being offensive, despite that phrases like "Black Pride" and "Black Power" were trademarked

WTF?
What is confusing you?
The double standards are fuckin pathetic.
A black person proud to be black is an encouragement. A white person proud to be white is a goddamn NAZI.
Its bullshit. And racist as fuck.
Stop whining. I used to think it was a double standard but a young girl from Pakistan pointed it out to me. Whites have nothing to be proud of because they have overcome nothing where their race has held them back.
Talking to you about race is like talking economics with a socialist.
Thats interesting.
So whites have been talking economics with socialists for more than 400 years.
 
What do whites have to be proud about that didnt involve genocide, thievery, lying, murder, and the slavery of other races?
You would still be chucking spears if your ancestors didn't trade your great great great granddaddy for a bucket of oranges. How is that for starters?
I doubt that since cities/businesses/universities existed in Africa when whitey got there. Africans really didn't do what you say.

The shit started with kidnapping and raids by whitey. Check it for yourself boy. Starring in 1544 I believe. Then there is this:

The Schomburg Center for the Research of Black Culture has excellent information about the African slave trade that provides a stark contrast between what happened and what some use as an excuse to discount the experiences of blacks in America. The web site is named, “The Abolition of the Slave Trade-African Resistance.” From the introduction, information contained in this collection debunks the race pimped tales presented by some in America today.

“Africans started to fight the transatlantic slave trade as soon as it began. Their struggles were multifaceted and covered four continents over four centuries. Still, they have often been underestimated, overlooked, or forgotten. African resistance was reported in European sources only when it concerned attacks on slave ships and company barracoons, but acts of resistance also took place far from the coast and thus escaped the slavers’ attention. To discover them, oral history, archaeology, and autobiographies and biographies of African victims of the slave trade have to be probed. Taken together, these various sources offer a detailed image of the varied strategies Africans used to defend themselves from and mount attacks against the slave trade.

The Africans’ resistance continued in the Americas. They ran away, established maroon communities, used sabotage, conspired, and rose against those who held them in captivity. Freed people petitioned the authorities, led information campaigns, and worked actively to abolish the slave trade and slavery.

In Europe, black abolitionists launched or participated in civic movements to end the deportation and enslavement of Africans. They too delivered speeches, provided information, wrote newspaper articles and books. Using violent as well as nonviolent means, Africans in Africa, the Americas, and Europe were constantly involved in the fight against the slave trade and slavery.”


The tale of Africa’s role in the slave trade as told by a segment of white society is incomplete and disingenuous. This has been done on purpose. It was not so simple as blacks capturing each other and selling them to whites. Europeans did not just waltz into Africa and overwhelm a bunch of backward, naked, dumb savages. They were in a fight for 400 years. Quite a number of Europeans entered Africa and Africa ended up being their final resting place.

“Some leaders actively worked against the transatlantic slave trade. One of the most famous was Abdel Kader Kane, the Muslim leader of the Futa Toro region in northern Senegal. Kane had succeeded in peopling his kingdom by retaking by force his people who had been kidnapped and by forbidding slave caravans from passing through his territory. After the French took three children from Futa, Kane sent a letter to the governor:

We are warning you that all those who will come to our land to trade [in slaves] will be killed and massacred if you do not send our children back. Would not somebody who was very hungry abstain from eating if he had to eat something cooked with his blood? We absolutely do not want you to buy Muslims under any circumstances. I repeat that if your intention is to always buy Muslims you should stay home and not come to our country anymore. Because all those who will come can be assured that they will lose their life.”


We are told stories about the shackles and chains, but we are not told the complete story of why they were needed. It is just “you sold your own into balls and chains.” But the story is just not that simple.

“As the slave trade expanded, resistance to it grew as well, and the need for shackles, guns, ropes, chains, iron balls, and whips tells an eloquent story of continuous and violent struggle from the hinterland to the high seas. As one slave trader remarked:

For the security and safekeeping of the slaves on board or on shore in the African barracoons, chains, leg irons, handcuffs, and strong houses are used. I would remark that this also is one of the forcible necessities resorted to for the preservation of the order, and as recourse against the dangerous consequences of this traffic.”

“Wherever possible, such as in Saint-Louis and Gorée (Senegal), James (Gambia), and Bance (Sierra Leone), the Europeans' barracoons were located on islands, which made escapes and attacks more difficult. In some areas, as soon as local people approached the boats, the crew is ordered to take up arms, the cannons are aimed, and the fuses are lighted . . . One must, without any hesitation, shoot at them and not spare them. The loss of the vessel and the life of the crew are at stake.”

“The heavily fortified forts and barracoons attest to the Europeans' distrust and apprehension. They had to protect themselves, as Jean-Baptiste Durand of the Compagnie du Sénégal explained, from the foreign vessels and from the Negroes living in the country."

“These precautions notwithstanding, in the eighteenth century, Fort Saint-Joseph on the Senegal River was attacked and all commerce was interrupted for six years. Several conspiracies and actual revolts by captives erupted on Gorée Island and resulted in the death of the governor and several soldiers. In addition, the crews of quite a few slave ships were killed on the River Gambia; in Sierra Leone, people sacked the captives' quarters of the infamous trader John Ormond. Similar incidents occurred in other parts of the African coast. Written records document how Africans on shore attacked more than a hundred ships.

Some Western slavers maintained occult centers in their barracoons, staffed by men they paid to work on the captives, sometimes with medicinal plants. The objective was to kill any spirit of rebellion, to tame the detainees, and make them accept their fate. The existence of these centers shows the extent of the precautions taken by slavers to prevent rebellions on land and during the Middle Passage: shackles and guns controlled the body, while the spirit was broken.

But revolts on slave ships, although extremely difficult to organize and conduct, were numerous. About 420 revolts have been documented in slavers' papers, and they do not represent the totality. It is estimated that 100,000 Africans died in uprisings on the coast or during the Middle Passage. The fear of revolts resulted in additional costs for the slavers: larger crews, heavy weapons, and barricades. About 18 percent of the costs of the Middle Passage were incurred due to measures to thwart uprisings, and the captives who rose up saved, according to estimates, one million Africans from deportation by driving up the slavers' expenses.”


You would be chucking em too boy
 

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