#slavery in libya

[leroibobo]

some images from the cave homes of gharyan, libya. communities of jews who made their homes in underground caves have been known in the maghreb since before the 1st century. when spain invaded tripoli in 1510, tripolian jews, both toshavim and sephardic, fled to gharyan and dug out cave homes for themselves. the houses today are occupied by non-jewish libyans or rented out to tourists.

[pharma-tard]

the same people who brought slavery back to Libya based on lies they knew were lies: we're losing because of misinformation. if people weren't #misinformed everything would be going our way.

[kemetic-dreams]

The term 'Sub-Saharan' Africa is a colonial language that was used to belittle African nations south of the Sahara and to separate the other countries from North Africa– Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Sudan due to them being Arab states.

Colored, Negro, Black, Nigger

Every one of these terms come from the mindset of Europeans not Africans. Indigenous African societies do not use the term black as a racial identity outside of influences brought by Western cultures.

Contemporary anthropologists and other scientists, while recognizing the reality of biological variation between different human populations, regard the concept of a unified, distinguishable "Black race" as socially constructed.

Black is a term developed in the Colonial Assembly of Maryland, after a rebellion called Bacon's Rebellion, fought from 1676 to 1677.

The alliance between European indentured servants and Africans (a mix of indentured, enslaved, and Free Negroes) disturbed the colonial upper class. They responded by hardening the racial caste of slavery in an attempt to divide the two races from subsequent united uprisings with the passage of the Virginia Slave Codes of 1705.

White took on the meaning "British, Christian and having rights. Black meaning not having rights.

These divided the two populations, by giving poor Europeans with no power, unprecedented power over all non-Europeans.

The laws were devised to establish a greater level of control over the rising African slave population of Virginia. It also socially segregated white colonists from black enslaved persons, making them disparate groups and hindering their ability to unite. Unity of the commoners was a perceived fear of the Virginia aristocracy, who wished to prevent repeated events such as Bacon's Rebellion, occurring 29 years prior.

By refusing to call you an African, it belittles you, no such thing as black names, black land or black languages. It is like calling a woman big lips or flat butt and refusing to call the woman by her actual name. "Hey colored girl, or black boy".

In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people.

African populations have the highest levels of genetic variation among all humans. 

Why You Probably Shouldn't Say 'Eskimo'

People in many parts of the Arctic consider Eskimo a derogatory term because it was widely used by racist, non-native colonizers. Many people also thought it meant eater of raw meat, which connoted barbarism and violence. Although the word's exact etymology is unclear, mid-century anthropologists suggested that the word came from the Latin word excommunicati, meaning the excommunicated ones, because the native people of the Canadian Arctic were not Christian.

According to the Constitution of India, we are “the people of India that is Bharat”

In English language discourse, the word ‘India’ is used and in Hindi expressions, the word ‘Bharat’ is used. The Anglicised call it ‘India’, and the indigenous call it ‘Bharat’. Our ruling class calls it ‘India’, the others, the janata, call it ‘Bharat’. It has become a trend and fashion to prefer the word ‘India’ over ‘Bharat’. We converse with the country in Hindi and other vernaculars while we govern it in English.

Japanese people usually refer to their country as Nihon or Nippon 

The name "Japan" in English is derived from the Portuguese word "Japão," which was used during the 16th century when Portuguese traders and explorers first arrived in Japan. The Portuguese term "Japão" likely evolved from the Malay word "Japang" or "Japang Pulau," which referred to the Japanese archipelago.

The Japanese people themselves refer to their country as "Nihon" (日本) or "Nippon" (日本), and these terms have been used in the Japanese language for centuries.

As European seen themselves as the elites of all races and god's chosen people. They took on the mindset of what I say makes the most sense.

Renaming essentially all populations they came in contact with, using their language as opposed to learning the language of the natives.

And whatever religion or spirituality people had Europeans demonized it and forced converted people to Christianity.

[azspot]

There are many shameful periods in American history. The genocide we carried out against indigenous peoples. Slavery. The violent suppression of the labor movement that saw hundreds of workers killed. Lynching. Jim and Jane Crow. Vietnam. Iraq. Afghanistan. Libya.  The genocide in Gaza, which we fund and support, is of such monstrous proportions that it will achieve a prominent place in this pantheon of crimes.  History will not be kind to most of us. But it will bless and revere these students.

Chris Hedges

[council-of-beetroot]

What do i think about when a country is mentioned or what do I associate it with

Algeria - Sahara desert

Angola - thumb pianos, Luanda being an incredibly expensive place to live

Benin - dahomey, voodoo

Botswana - diamonds and the fact that it has been called the success story of Africa

Burkina Faso - Ouagadougou formerly called upper volta.

Burundi - drums used during a revolution there. Gorillas

Cabo Verde - the shape of the country is like a ring of islands all around another island

Cameroon - soccer, limnically active lakes

Central African Republic - the French language

Chad - Lake Chad, Taureg People particularly the blue headscarves

Comoros - Anjouan Moheli and Grand Comore. Has had lots of coups

Congo DRC - my sister is into epidemiology so she talks about it a lot.

Congo - across a river from Brazzaville is Kinsasha

Cote d'Ivoire - Chocolate and the flag is the reverse of ireland

Djibouti - Lake Assal

Egypt - the pyramids

Equatorial Guinea - Spanish speaking, usually the country I use to explain why GDP per capita can be skewed.

Eritrea - architecture influenced by italy

Eswatini - I once got it confused with Switzerland, there's a holiday called Incwala

Ethiopia - a book I read a kid called "children just like me" also pizza hut, weddings, raw beef.

Gabon - oil and the fact that they have places called ogooue

Gambia - the shape and Yaya Jammeh

Ghana - also soccer, Elmina Castle

Guinea - One of the countries my sister knows a lot about

Guinea-Bissau - hippos

Kenya - Jeff

Lesotho - mountains

Liberia - my sister does a great impression of the I'm Liberian meme. Ebola, Ebola in town, don't touch your friend

Libya - Gaddafi, Has a much better flag now. A transit point in human smuggling.

Madagascar - vanilla

Malawi - perch

Mali - Houses built out of mud, west African Islamic architecture.

Mauritania - slavery, I watched a lot of videos during quarantine about modern day slavery.

Mauritius - hinduism

Morocco - markets and tangines

Mozambique - Cabo Delgado

Namibia - San People

Niger - The coup, the orange dot on the flag

Nigeria - Boko Haram

Rwanda - Rwandan Genocide

Sao Tome and Principe - water access for some reason

Senegal - I think this one YouTuber I watch is from there

Seychelles - Hetalia

Sierra Leone - Civil War

Somalia - it's shaped like a music note

South Africa - Vuvuzelas

South Sudan - Francis Bok

Sudan - There are more pyramids here than in Egypt

Tanzania - zanzibar

Togo - for here or Togo meme. I'm sorry Togo I know nothing about you

Tunisia - Arab spring

Uganda - Mr. Moseby

Zambia - the shape of the country reminds me of a fetus. There is also some really cool waterfalls I think, not sure.

Zimbabwe - Mugabe

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

That article on CNN (lol) lists countries where Obama ordered airstrikes on terrorists. Which 5 wars were started by him?

Oh I see we're going to play stupid. I don't particularly like CNN but at least the article involving the countries that he bombed that we were not at war with which started wars with those countries independently. Because bombing terrorists in countries that you are not at war with is not something you do.

And it is a criticism I even have of Trump whenever he did that bullshit But the difference is whenever he did it the country didn't actually Levy attacks back against us. The attacks that were placed in those countries by Obama, bolstered the forces of those terrorist organizations and grew them which put us at war effectively with those countries.

You'll claim semantics and just say oh it didn't happen. Except it did. Because fun fact about when Obama basically decided that he was going to start a war against Libya, is he reimplemented slavery in the country by accident by destabilizing their government. If all we were doing is hunting terrorist, that wouldn't have been the case. I need you to not play stupid.

[xenosagaepisodeone]

i'm convinced that the recent lauren southern article going around is just to build up sympathy for her inevitable pivot to being "center-right" since she has only been turning into a more contentious figure within far-right circles in recent years (for reasons besides being a woman). believe it or not, domestic violence is rarely a surprise to conservative women in "trad" relationships. the gains cultivated from the mutual political goals between these women and their husbands self-justifies any personal dissatisfaction within the relationship in their eyes. seeing the public respond positively to your bleating about white genocide makes crying because your husband yelled at you feel like a small concession. being praised as aspirational by your network of white supremacists and subsequently having your voice elevated in the community makes your husband locking you out of the house after an argument something that "just" has to be avoided next time (because even he understands how important it is to maintain a good image, right). hearing stories like this don't inspire pity or schadenfreude in me, just apathy. "naturally, as a matter of course" and such. I imagine that the fact she is actually open about it is signaling that she's ready to shed the more abrasive members of her audience and assume the role of the dime a dozen contrite, weepy political commentator who "loves America" and is "just concerned 😟" for all the physical abuse being imported by beastly immigrant men, assuming she can actually roll back the act that far.

it is amusing to think about how she might attempt to reel in more sympathy from this point to achieve that, though. she's too much of a true believer to sell herself as reformed. people remember you shooting flares at boats of Africans fleeing slavery in Libya in an attempt to sink them, lauren! people remember you following Doctors Without Borders around the coast of Italy to prevent them from rescuing immigrants from boats that had potentially capsized! the new zealand mosque shooter was inspired by you! I'm positive that she would vaporize instantly if she had to grit her teeth and cede any ideological ground in the name of positive press.

[gardengnosticator]

believing every imperialist news piece about why a foreign government is a big bad totalitarian state of wickedness and that it's your moral duty as the advanced white westerner to bomb that country into freedom is the reason libya went from one of the most prosperous countries not just in africa but in the world, to the global hub of human slavery post gaddafi.

[muad-alsheebani94]

**The Suffering of Migrants and Refugees in Libya**

Migrants and refugees in Libya endure extremely difficult humanitarian conditions due to several complex factors. Since the fall of Gaddafi's regime in 2011, Libya has become a major transit point for migrants seeking to reach Europe. However, with the deterioration of security, economic, and political conditions in the country, this group faces additional hardships, including:

**Exposure to Violence and Exploitation**: Many migrants and refugees in Libya are exploited by human traffickers and are detained in illegal detention centers where they suffer from inhumane conditions. In these centers, they are tortured, held in overcrowded spaces, and endure poor sanitation and lack of medical care.

**Forced Labor and Slavery**: Many migrants are exploited by employers who force them to work in poor conditions for extremely low wages, with some being coerced into working as slaves.

**Conflict and Security Chaos**: Armed conflicts between militias and various forces in Libya exacerbate the suffering of migrants. These conflicts make it difficult for migrants to find safe places or leave the country.

**Deportation**: The Libyan authorities, with support from the European Union, sometimes deport migrants to their home countries under unsafe conditions, which exposes them to new risks if their countries are unstable.

**Lack of Humanitarian Aid**: Although some international organizations try to provide aid, access to migrants and refugees in Libya is hindered by various challenges, including security restrictions and bureaucracy.

**Lack of Legal Protection**: There are no effective legal mechanisms to protect the rights of migrants in Libya, making them vulnerable to exploitation and unjust practices, with no courts or institutions to ensure their rights.

Some humanitarian organizations strive to improve conditions, but the situation in Libya remains complicated due to the political crisis and internal divisions.

This phenomenon of migrants and refugees in Libya reflects a serious humanitarian crisis that requires urgent international action to ensure their protection and provide them with basic rights. A solution might lie in supporting local organizations that can raise awareness and offer legal assistance, either with international support or from within.

Lastly, as Jean-Jacques Rousseau said, “Man is born free.”

[kemetic-dreams]

Kordofan melons from Sudan are the closest relatives and may be progenitors of modern, cultivated watermelons. Wild watermelon seeds were found in Uan Muhuggiag, a prehistoric site in Libya that dates to approximately 3500 BC. Watermelons were domesticated in north-east Africa, and cultivated in Egypt by 2000 BC, although they were not the sweet modern variety. Sweet dessert watermelons spread across the Mediterranean world during Roman times.

Many 5000-year-old wild watermelon seeds (C. lanatus) were discovered at Uan Muhuggiag, a prehistoric archaeological site located in southwestern Libya. This archaeobotanical discovery may support the possibility that the plant was more widely distributed in the past.

In the 7th century, watermelons were being cultivated in India, and by the 10th century had reached China. The Moors introduced the fruit into the Iberian Peninsula, and there is evidence of it being cultivated in Córdoba in 961 and also in Seville in 1158. It spread northwards through southern Europe, perhaps limited in its advance by summer temperatures being insufficient for good yields. The fruit had begun appearing in European herbals by 1600, and was widely planted in Europe in the 17th century as a minor garden crop.

Early watermelons were not sweet, but bitter, with yellowish-white flesh. They were also difficult to open. Through breeding, watermelons later tasted better and were easier to open.

European colonists and enslaved people from Africa introduced the watermelon to the New World. Spanish settlers were growing it in Florida in 1576. It was being grown in Massachusetts by 1629, and by 1650 was being cultivated in Peru, Brazil and Panama. Around the same time, Native Americans were cultivating the crop in the Mississippi valley and Florida. Watermelons were rapidly accepted in Hawaii and other Pacific islands when they were introduced there by explorers such as Captain James Cook. In the Civil War era United States, watermelons were commonly grown by free African people and became one symbol for the abolition of slavery. After the Civil War, African people were maligned for their association with watermelon. The sentiment evolved into a racist stereotype where Africn people shared a supposed voracious appetite for watermelon, a fruit long correlated with laziness and uncleanliness.

Seedless watermelons were initially developed in 1939 by Japanese scientists who were able to create seedless triploid hybrids which remained rare initially because they did not have sufficient disease resistance. Seedless watermelons became more popular in the 21st century, rising to nearly 85% of total watermelon sales in the United States in 2014

A melon from the Kordofan region of Sudan – the kordofan melon – may be the progenitor of the modern, domesticated watermelon. The kordofan melon shares with the domestic watermelon loss of the bitterness gene, while maintaining a sweet taste, unlike other wild African varieties from other regions, indicating a common origin, possibly cultivated in the Nile Valley by 4360 BP (before present)

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Simon of Cyrene, an African and the father of Alexander and Rufus. Carried the cross Christ would be crucified upon when Jesus became too weak to continue under its weight. Simon of Cyrene is mentioned in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. Simon's son Rufus may have been the same man the Apostle Paul greets in his letter to Rome (the biblical Epistle of Romans), whom he calls “chosen in the Lord” and whose mother “has been a mother to me, too” (Romans 16:13). The Christian faith has always included Africans. By contrast a faith such as Mormonism didn't even allow Africans or non-white people to serve their church in leadership roles or receive "blessings" until a special "revelation from God" in 1978 instructed the church to start including them.

Below is one of Ethiopia's ancient "rock churches". Following the death and resurrection of Jesus, Ethiopia was one of the first nations in the world to build Christian churches and follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. More than 650 years before Mohammad was even born, Ethiopian Christians were singing praises to God the Father, His Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Islamic invaders attacked and enslaved Christian Africa in the years between their prophet's establishment of Islam and the early middle-ages, forcing Christian Africans to convert to Islam or die by the sword. Many chose to die. To this day Islam still preys on the people of Africa, giving them the choice of death, slavery or conversion.

Most people think Slavery ended in 1865. It still exists. These are black Africans in a slave market in Libya. Muslim nations still have a brisk slave trade and hundreds of thousands of black Africans are kidnapped, tortured and sold on a daily basis with the full blessing of Islamic mufti's and Islamic governments. The Western World doesn't seem to care very much because the west wants the oil these countries produce. How much is the life of a black slave in the Islamic world? About $400 U.S. dollars for a "healthy" young male.

[alfredcossichodatonfan-blog]

AFRICA’S RISE INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE LIBERAL GLOBAL HEGEMONY

Joe Biden often repeats that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. This has often been said about Donald Trump in the US as it has been said about Marine Le Pen in France or Vladimir Putin in Russia. However, to which democracy is referred to here is quite unclear to me.

What is clear is that Democracy is a majority rule. It has many different definitions but all of them take at least into account the fact that it is an expression of the will of the majority of the citizens of a particular country. Though, nowadays it happens that democracy is equated with being aligned to the US liberal global order.

Donald Trump has an entirely different view of democracy which must free America from the grip of globalist circles of financial oligarchs, lobbyists, and the apparatus of the US Deep State. What has happened recently as Joe Biden renounced his candidacy to the Democratic Party nomination is a perfect illustration of the fake democracy America finds itself in.

Joe Biden's candidacy was supposed to be the result of the democratic process of designation through primaries within the Democratic Party. However, in American democracy, the donors behind major figures such as Barack Obama, Hilary and Bill Clinton are the real powers behind the seat of power. They were the same that orchestrated the rise of Joe Biden despite his declining cognitive faculties and are also responsible for his resignation after both his poor performance during the debate between the two candidates where he appeared totally diminished intellectually and the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Apparently, if the mental decline of Joe Biden hadn't been revealed to the public during that last debate and if Donald Trump unfortunately was assassinated, Joe Biden would still have been the only candidate of the Democratic Party.

Why would, the fact that Marine Le Pen rules France or Donald Trump rules the US because elected by their fellow citizens to do so, be a breach of democracy is still unclear. However, as an African, it is bizarre to me why Africans would oppose the rise of Donald Trump or the one Marine Le Pen. In the present system of international division of labor, slavery has only changed its form. Many Africans still see as their only salvation migration to Western world where most of them end up in low-paid jobs in the interests of global capitalist profiteers. Africa has been gaining nothing in this exploitation of its large and young population just to maintain the economy of the West where sexual orientations are partly responsible for its endemic low birth rate. Africa wouldn't become a developed part of the world by allowing migration of its youth to other continents.

Moreover, the global capitalist profiteers are responsible for plumber of rare mineral resources in DRC by allowing the continued destabilization of this country. The flourishing terrorist groups in the Sahel region have something to do with its richness with these rare mineral resources. The liberal global order has led Africa to more destabilization and more dependency on the West for its own security. Most African governments are forced to choose between Russia and China on one hand and the United States of America and its allies on the other for their security. However, countries which choose China and Russia come under serious pressure to forsake their ties with these no-western countries.

If the liberal global order doesn't accept the rise of China, the reemergence of Russia, attacks and destroys oil rich countries like Iraq or Libya for relinquishing the dollar dominated financial system, why would it accept the rise of former African colonial vassals?

Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen are enemies of this global capitalist order. So are we Africans!

Alfred Cossi CHODATON, Free Thinker, Thursday, July 24, 2024, At 5 A.M.

[readingsquotes]

"Student protesters across the country exhibit a moral and physical courage — many are facing suspension and expulsion — that shames every major institution in the country. They are dangerous not because they disrupt campus life or engage in attacks on Jewish students —  many of those protesting are Jewish — but because they expose the abject failure by the ruling elites and their institutions to halt genocide, the crime of crimes. These students watch, like most of us, Israel’s live-streamed slaughter of the Palestinian people. But unlike most of us, they act. Their voices and protests are a potent counterpoint to the moral bankruptcy that surrounds them.

Not one university president has denounced Israel’s destruction of every university in Gaza. Not one university president has called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire. Not one university president has used the words “apartheid” or “genocide.” Not one university president has called for sanctions and divestment from Israel.   

Instead, heads of these academic institutions grovel supinely before wealthy donors, corporations — including weapons manufacturers — and rabid right-wing politicians. They reframe the debate around harm to Jews rather than the daily slaughter of Palestinians, including thousands of children. They have allowed the abusers — the Zionist state and its supporters — to paint themselves as victims. This false narrative, which focuses on anti-Semitism, allows the centers of power, including the media, to block out the real issue — genocide. It contaminates the debate. It is a classic case of “reactive abuse.” Raise your voice to decry injustice, react to prolonged abuse, attempt to resist, and the abuser suddenly transforms themself into the aggrieved.

Princeton University, like other universities across the country, is determined to halt encampments calling for an end to the genocide. This, it appears, is a coordinated effort by universities across the country.  

...

There are many shameful periods in American history. The genocide we carried out against indigenous peoples. Slavery. The violent suppression of the labor movement that saw hundreds of workers killed. Lynching. Jim and Jane Crow. Vietnam. Iraq. Afghanistan. Libya. 

The genocide in Gaza, which we fund and support, is of such monstrous proportions that it will achieve a prominent place in this pantheon of crimes.