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Originally posted by Mike111:
Egmond - are you reading your posts back to yourself, before posting? You might try that, somehow you pickup on things that you missed the first time around.

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[Atrocities by the civilized west since slavery: Vietnam napalm bombing]

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Originally posted by Egmond Codfried:


CONGO FREE STATE GENOCIDE

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Casualties

[edit] Severed hands

Native labourers who failed to meet rubber collection quotas were often punished by having their hands cut off.One junior white officer described a raid to punish a village that had protested. The white officer in command "ordered us to cut off the heads of the men and hang them on the village palisades ... and to hang the women and the children on the palisade in the form of a cross."[1] After seeing a native killed for the first time, a Danish missionary wrote: "The soldier said 'Don't take this to heart so much. They kill us if we don't bring the rubber. The Commissioner has promised us if we have plenty of hands he will shorten our service.'"[2] In Forbath's words:
The baskets of severed hands, set down at the feet of the European post commanders, became the symbol of the Congo Free State. ... The collection of hands became an end in itself. Force Publique soldiers brought them to the stations in place of rubber; they even went out to harvest them instead of rubber... They became a sort of currency. They came to be used to make up for shortfalls in rubber quotas, to replace... the people who were demanded for the forced labour gangs; and the Force Publique soldiers were paid their bonuses on the basis of how many hands they collected.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State_Genocide
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Good going, but I need to read and take in the rest you wrote.

I believe you and I can solve the riddle of racism towards Blacks but first we have to forsake white supremacy in all its forms, and just reject all their lies they put in books. Also not to follow the paths they have laid out for us. Blacks existed long before Whites, yet somehow Whites have discovered Blacks! In my other pieces I state that the discrimination of the Jews can be pinpointed in time and place, as well as other conflicts: Why not the conflict with the Blacks?

The question was about the book by Hobbes, and why there is a Black man on the cover, and if he, in your view, looks like Cromwell. How can you have missed it?

The next quote was more or less also said by the Djimoun Honsou character in Blood Diamond: That there might be something wrong with Blacks for them to having endure all these horrors. As if they deserve it.

This is plainly blaming the victim and leaving the heavy free from blame. Since slavery we saw Belgians cutting hands off Congo Blacks, the Holocaust, Dutch massacring Indonesians just after the German occupied them for 5 years, America bombing Japan with a A-bomb, bombing Vietnam, Iraq and now Afghanistan. One might think that these White's have something else to worry about, perhaps there own genocidal thirst, then those wretched Blacks, hundreds of years ago!

A new question: What is the thread with the Laulan beauty? You mentioned the Dravidians who were driven south by the Aryans, but they still survive today. Might the European Blacks have also survived until our times?

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The “unlike you” part was easy and obvious, they are Black, you are White. The “unlike what you would do” part was easy too - though untrue. But still, the question - what kind of people would sell their own kind, into such misery and death, out of simple greed, is a legitimate one. But of course, Whites only interest in this line of thought, was in finding cover for their own atrocities, and in so doing, avoid damnation. And so, “voila” you have institutional Racism. BTW – the beautiful Christian hymn “Amazing Grace” was written by an English Slave Ship Captain, for whom that convenient rationale, no longer worked.

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