#trans Atlantic slave trade

[hussyknee]

"The forced migration of African slaves" motherfucker you mean the genocide of West Africans. Twelve and half million people forced out of their homeland or died before they ever left it. That is a goddamn Holocaust.

Genocide isn't just systematic killing, it's one group deliberately causing the death and displacement of another. It's why colonization and slavery is genocide. It doesn't hinge on whether or not they actually manage to get rid of everybody. We need to start punching assholes who'd rather split hairs and compare numbers instead of using the word.

[kny111]

Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is promoting reparations in a bid to curb health and wealth disparities of black New Yorkers — but the effort is being met with accusations that it’s “sowing racial divisiveness,” The Post has learned.

The proposal for federal reparations is spelled out in a bombshell report from the city’s Department of Health and the Federal Reserve Bank entitled “Analyzing the Racial Wealth Gap and Implications for Health Equity.”

“The goal of a [federal] reparations program would be to seek acknowledgment, redress, and closure for America’s complicity in federal, state, and local policies … that have deprived black Americans of equitable access to wealth and wealth-building opportunities,” the report said.

The city’s Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan and his team offered three key recommendations including: a fresh approach to public health policy, how to improve data collections on wealth and health outcomes and getting the community more involved with health care decisions.

But moderate and conservative politicians opposed to reparations accused Adams’ health minions of turning into ideologues and social justice activists instead of doing their jobs.

“Add reparations and sowing racial divisiveness to the list of greatest policy hits by Commissioner Vasan’s and his health department, right alongside the crack pipe vending machine, heroin ‘empowerment’ signs on subways, firing unvaccinated city workers, supporting government drug dens; and banning unvaccinated kids from sports,” fumed Council Republican Minority Leader Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island).

The New York legislature approved a commission to address economic, political and educational disparities by black people in June and follows the lead of California, which became the first state to form a reparations task force in 2020.

New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, the first black person to hold the position, called the legislation “historic.”

Adams has previously expressed support for the commission which is awaiting Hochul’s signature.

“We have consistently brought together experts to discuss a variety of ideas to promote equity in our city and we will continue to do so,” said the Health Department’s spokesman.

“We have an obligation to help New Yorkers lead longer, healthier lives.”

As with most progress in this system, we have to first inspect its ongoing involvement in pro enslavement systems. Not only did the historical ties to the Trans-Atlantic-slave trade leave on going structural residual connections that linger in our society today, it continues to exist in the 13th amendment's clause: slavery illegal unless a crime was found on you. That "unless" aspect made it essentially persist as is under the guise of hyper-criminalization at a system level. This has had adverse, negative effect on everyone including the environment. These are facts that can be proven. Not just social justice counter points. Besides, we are literally (regardless of what we say about it) immersed in politics and social justice through our lived social experiences. Claiming "the social justice advocates are the issue for pointing out what exists" is not helpful and adds to the lack of communal education required to understand these things. We need problack proindigenx reperations and restituion.

[sanyu-thewitch05]

Link:

Never thought I’d ever post anything political on this blog, but crazy and terrifying he’s suggesting the US go back to slavery times

@queen-shiba

[thoughtportal]

Palmares (quilombo) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmares_(quilombo)

Palmares, or Quilombo dos Palmares, was a quilombo, a community of escaped slaves and others, in colonial Brazil that developed from 1605 until its suppression in 1694. It was located in the captaincy of Pernambuco, in what is today the Brazilian state of Alagoas. The quilombo was located in what is now the municipality of União dos Palmares.[2]

Background

The modern tradition has been to call the community the Quilombo of Palmares. Quilombos were settlements mainly of survivors and free-born enslaved African people. The quilombos came into existence when Africans began arriving in Brazil in the mid-1530s and grew significantly as slavery expanded.

No contemporary document called Palmares a quilombo; instead the term mocambo was used.[3] Palmares was home to not only escaped enslaved Africans, but also to Indigenous peoples, caboclos, and poor or marginalized Portuguese settlers, especially Portuguese soldiers trying to escape forced military service.[4]

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

the brainwashing of the descendants of slaves in the united states is so complete that they fear africa. cultures of the diaspora that have retained some of their africaness especially in religion are regarded with fear by descendants who've had "african religions are evil" pounded into their heads for the last 300 years as they were forced to become Christian.

Haitians bear the brunt of this superstitious ignorance as do people from Louisiana. Why? Because parts of west africa have been preserved in their culture.

Africa (the entire continent because black people descended from slaves in the United States are ignorant of individual countries and language groups) is a big scary giant looming on the horizon thanks to hundreds of years of brainwashing.

[auressea]

oh! oh. this is truly an amazing story. the people involved made a documentary about the whole long journey - you can get a copy from them! "The Language You Cry In is the award winning film that traces the connections between the Moran family and the people of Harris Neck with those of Senehun Ngola.  It can be ordered by calling (912) 832-4549."

TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries (x)

[chiefhuntingbear-is-a-shaman]

video on YouTube about

THE MYTH OF AFRICANS BEING VICTIMS WHEN THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PERPETRATORS

[andnowanowl]

A short history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade (mainly around the British side because this woman is a British historian) and addressing some of the white supremacist myths around it.

It doesn't get into some of the more gritty details of the slave trade (like slave women being forced to have child after child with the incentive of being freed, slaves jumping overboard to escape their fate, or slaves being eaten by their enslavers).

I always find it funny when my dad says "My people didn't own slaves! You don't see any Black people with our last name!" and he never takes into account that the dozens upon dozens of women who married into the family may have been daughters or granddaughters of enslavers. You can tell he feels white guilt about it instead of doing the healthy thing of at least acknowledging that some of his ancestors may have owned slaves, that people descended from slaves may resent him for what was done to their ancestors because he's white, and move past it.

[z34l0t]

Read our collaboration with EFF on how Black communities have resisted technological militarization of policing and surveillance.

[kny111]

Do World Powers Engage in Subtle Systemic Slavery or Overt Systemic Slavery? It doesn’t Matter. Slavery is Slavery & It Will Never Be Needed Especially Not As A System.

The United States along with other world powers and those that serve them have created this ‘using us, yet against us’ system. We need to change this. The fire James Baldwin spoke of, the very merited rage those enslaved have against this system, is well overdue.

Those who serve a government that knowingly allow for enslavement still and lie to people about it being abolished when their own amendment backs daily institutional and systemic enslavement when it allows “slavery is abolished except in punishment or crime“. This does nothing to remove slavery as a systemic feature from this governing system and you are implicit.

                                                                                                by - K, Blog Admin

What happens when we as a community repurpose the instruments of science and evidence gathering and focus on the 13th amendment? This piece of document literally allows for enslavement. What has been created in its wake? Here’s the thing, when colonial imperial powers in Europe said okay when issues occur we’re gonna call them ‘crime’  they meant it as a word to account for social norms being breached and a sort of “holler if you hear me“ approach to solving those issues was laid out institutionally which included neighborhood watch people that could process this. They later became police. Between that time and the present 2023, legislature and policy reshaped crime and policing, as well as the defending of issues through military, crime became systemically synonymous with prisons/cages/slavery to solve those issues. From the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and its bolstering of these pro enslavement laws to this past historical investment in this strange notion of punishing others so physically, violently to the benefit of a system, a legalized market of slavery was formed and continues to persist with similar legislative and political play on words as they did with the 13th amendment’s clause: The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

When you specifically write into law and action that amendments create and actualize the means to the system we use, what are you enacting when you pronounce through this same mechanism that “no slavery shall exist within the united states or any place subject to its jurisdiction - EXCEPT as punishment for crime“? We need to, as a people really inspect this slowly and carefully because science has yet to produce any evidence that says punishment at that level and method is required to solve these issues so where is this evidence that says that type of punishment is even needed for the people to ��fall in line”?

Secondly, isn’t it evident that processing issues as merely ‘crime’ is factually bringing us more structural issues than not because not every issue can be generalized to crime and often times the word crime itself just doesn’t do nearly enough to account for the disabled community and many other far reaching issues.

These aren’t assumptions, these are educated deductions based on statistical data provided by the errors of the running system. Again, it has yet to produce reputable convincing evidence that establishes prisons, crime, and cops/ slave patrol systems they synergized with as effective means to solve the issues we as a society constantly face. And with this same lack of adhering to scientific facts are we supposed to feel comforted by these slave industry agents, legislators and policy makers that allow for that amendment to exist as is because they know it buys them that much time to not worry of their implicitness in enslavement of others? I implore everyone watch the documentary by Ava DuVernay 13th available for free on youtube from NetFlix due to its educational merit. This documentary is like a course 101 on understanding just how much of an issue enslavement systems are and how synonymous prisons and cops are to slave markets and patrols. It gets right to the problem of slavery, what scriptures did they use to embed it into our social mainframe? did it exist back then? Yes, Is it gone? No, it let’s us know it’s still active and strategies by white supremacists and slavers then benefit their lineages and communities now.

They have a lot of control over the systems that try to govern us. Reconfiguring, inspecting and enacting amendments at this level will be required for us to do something meaningful against this oppressive system and its unsustainable, inefficient amalgamation with slavery markets as a resource system.

Reparations for those harmed by these systems as well as systemic decolonization strategies will be commonly needed. We need documentaries like this and similar subject media to help the public understand the necessary steps to abolish prisons and repurposing the military that serve them away from the rich’s interest and focus on the people. Since all defending this slavery system are implicit. 13th by Ava DuVernay is available now on YouTube for free via NetFlix along with other educational documentaries

[thoughtportal]

the condition which someone else put upon them

[ausetkmt]

https://x.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1701860296493547847?t=z8gLfv41GiIWPQq83c58Ng&s=09

Image: a Moor on sale after the beginning of their fall in Spain. The last expelled Moor was in 1492 CE

THE 'CHURCH' WAS THE DRIVING FORCE OF TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE AS MUCH AS ISLAM WAS AT THE HEART OF ARAB SLAVE TRADE

IN 1455 CE, Pope Nicholas V. wrote a Roman bull(romanus pontifex) declaring that all Moors, Saracens and all non-christian blacks were to be sentenced to perpetual slavery and Charged as heretics during the early stages of the 'Inquisitions'. By 1492 CE, the Moors (African Maghrebs and some Arabs) surrendered their castles in Iberian peninsula with Spain claiming most of the Moorish territories and persons of black-skin became the 'property' of Spain. Some escaped back to Africa.

In 1493 CE, another declaration was made by Pope Alexander VI(inter caetera), known as 'doctrine of discovery' which gave rise to the idea of 'discovery' as a concept in Europe. What followed this was noted by Karl Marx thus; "what was good for the europeans was obtained on the expense of untold suffering by the Africans and American Indians... the discovery of gold in the America, the extra patient enslavement and the entombment of the minds of the aboriginal population... the turning of Africa into a commercial warrant for the hunting of black skins, signaled the rosy dawn of the capitalist production". Little wonder, Rev. Richard Furman, President of the S. Carolina Baptist convention in 1823 CE, stated that, " the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the holy scriptures, both by precepts and by example ". He was a slave owner. "I draw my warrant from the Scripture of the old and new testaments to hold slaves in bondage" -Rev. Thomas Witherspoon of the Presbyterian church of Alabama, in a letter to 'the emancipator' in 1839 CE. These 'justifications' were stated by many churchmen and women, drawing from the Judeo-Christian Bible.

The revered book of the Mohammedans, the Qur'an, which was written in the 8th/9th century CE, by those who took over from the Nabataean, also indicated in many verses that slavery was 'just'. But in this case, it was often Stated that the followers of the Islamic ideology were to by loving and gentle among themselves but to "fight them[non-followers of the ideology] and allah will punish him by your hands" (Quran 9:14, 15) and that "allah will strike terror unto the unbelievers(Q. 8:60)... and until they pay gizya(Q. 9:29). 'Gizya' was supposed to be an Islamic tax, targeted at the non-followers of the ideology, even if they are not enslaved but if their lands are taken over by followers of the Islamic ideology.

Following several injunctions in the Arabian Quran, the Mohammedans in Iberia had sought to control the situation: "anyone who is known to be from those lands which are known to be lands of Islam should be let go and should be adjudged free. This is the ruling of the jurist of Andalusia "-( Al Umari, 14th cen. Arab historian. But for all else, slavery was allowed.

This was the ugly web that Africa was caught in, in the 7th cen. CE and the 15th cen. CE. And in this way, many Africans became Mohammedans for convenience, especially the Garamantes(an ancient black skinned people with kinky hair), of north Africa, who joined forces with the Islamizing Arabs, whom together went in and took over Iberia in 711CE.

According to Dr. Josef Ben Jochannan, " Africa took-in both the hook, the line and sinker" and that had stretched to this very day. Africans born into this just 'follow the followers', sometimes, even somewhat blindfolded.

[magnetothemagnificent]

Okay, as a disclaimer I'm not Black or Jewish, but from my understanding I don't think Black people "have been getting oppressed and genocided since day 1 for just existing"? Certainly in the Americas that's the case, but I gather that anti-Black racism as we know it today arose from the Atlantic slave trade and subsequent colonization of Africa, both more recent than antisemitism. Of course I'm not trying to compare who has it worse, and I could very well be wrong, so feel free to correct me.

Africans were targets of enslavement long, long before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. For centuries before Columbus, Africans had been systematically enslaved in the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade under Arab rule. Europeans didn't waltz into Africa and decide to enslave Africans out of the blue, they did so because the enslavement of Africans had already been established and normalized. While "race" as a construct didn't exist until recent centuries, the colonization of Africa and subsquent enslavement of Africans had been solidly in existance before the colonization of the Americas. And for the duration of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and beynd, the subjugation of African people wasn't isolated to the Americas. Europe funded the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, antiblackness was and is alive and well in Europe. It's not just an American issue, and framing it as such is extremely harmful.

"Race" is a relatively new concept, but that doesn't mean that certain groups of people haven't historically been targets of oppression before that. Both Africans and Jews have been subjugated for thousands of years, it's a shared experience we have, which is why Black and Jewish solidarity is so important.

It's not an arms race between which group is more "oppressed", but both antisemitism and antiblackness go back for millennia. There's no quantifying which is "older", because both are extremely old forms of bigotry with monumental effects on their victims.

This kind of "comparing" trauma is something I won't accept from either group of people, but certainly not from someone who isn't Jewish nor Black. Who are you to dictate which marginalization is "worse" or "older"?

[manwalksintobar]

I Mean Maybe None of Us Are Actually From Anywhere // Hanif Abdurraqib

it's so hard to trace these things right I just rolled out of bed one morning and I had this head of good hair and when I say good hair I mean it was passed down from someone who was once dragged through a field by it until their scalp became a wide open mouth but it looks fly tucked underneath this fitted hat on the dance floor no you cannot borrow this dance you cannot stand over another dark and shaking body and breathe in the smoke we leave in our wake I get that we are all human or whatever but I don't even know what that would do to your bones I don't know if

your bones bend like mine I come from a boxed in culture I come from people who traveled entire oceans wrapped around each other I was born from a woman who is now inside a box so you see some things are just natural for me you're right maybe there is no such thing as a country maybe there is just gutted land and rows of sharp teeth that have torn at my flesh for so long I'm not exactly sure which wound is the one I belong to I mean the only way I recognize my skin is when it is open and spilling how can I even keep track you know it must be nice to wrap your hands around an unscarred body it must be nice to wrap your tongue around all of the words in that song without also asking to bleed out on a sidewalk look all I know is I began running when the fire started and I haven’t stopped since maybe I come from running maybe running is a country maybe everyone who lives there misses someone they thought would live forever

I’m glad you don’t know how to find it I’m glad that you haven’t caught me yet I’m glad you have a black friend I’m sorry that your black friend may die soon and then there will only be me