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[ptseti]

What Happened to The Black People in Ecuador? | The 18x Femicide Rate

They built a republic from a shipwreck. They created two distinct cultures: marimba on the coast, bomba in the Andes. Furthermore, they wrote novels that the academy ignored and won Olympic gold that the nation cheered.

But for Afro-Ecuadorian women, there is a statistic that shatters every narrative of progress: you are 18 times more likely to be murdered than any other woman in the country.

[renegadeurbanmediasource]

This was the BIGGEST CRIME on earth. Yet when we bring it up, we're "complaining"; it was a "long time ago"! I encourage the Ashkenazi to bring awareness to their plight. I am glad when German companies pay reparations because they got free labor. But when we bring it up for our People they insult us! They disrespect us! They call us lazy all the while benefiting off the BLOOD LABOR of our great-great-grandparents! They tell you to “go back to Afrika”! I love the Motherland but my People built this country! These are the people Candace Owens dreams of imitating! Wow! Self-hate!

[theotherjourney7]

“In the face of the Black Lives Matter protests, some detractors are insisting that we celebrate the British government for abolishing slavery. Here's why that is ridiculous:

It was actually the Haitians that first abolished slavery, in 1804. Britain didn't get around to it until *three decades later*, and then only reluctantly, under sustained pressure from slave revolts and radical social movements (to whom the real credit belongs).

The Abolition Act of 1833 was not progressive but rather explicitly racist, declaring that enslaved persons were not humans but property, that therefore abolition amounted to expropriation, and that slave owners must therefore be compensated for their loss.

Not only did the British government pay an extraordinary sum to slave owners in a perverse act of reverse reparations, it required that slaves pay for their own freedom by working unpaid for a further 8 years after abolition ("apprenticeship", they called it).

Britain continued to openly countenance and profit from slavery in its colonies for more than a century after the Abolition Act, liberating slaves in Nigeria only in 1916, in Sierra Leone only in 1923, and in the West Indian colonies and the Cape colony only in 1938.

Britain engaged in state-sponsored trafficking of black people for more than 200 years. To claim credit for abolition is like a serial killer expecting praise for being made to stop murdering. Call not for praise but for remembrance and reparations.

And yet the British defense *against* reparations claims is to argue, ironically, that slavery was legal at the time. But you can't have it both ways. It is contradictory to invoke the legality of slavery and expect praise for ending it in the same breath.”-Jason Hickel

[architecture-art-nature]

Art by Kara Walker

I took this photograph last year. Though the art will stay up till February 2021.

Fons Americans by Kara Walker

Fons Americanus is a 13-metre tall working fountain inspired by the Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace, London.

[iuicmontreal]

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[welzenis]

A statue to pull down in New York. 

Peter Stuyvesant, 1612-1672 Stuyvesant Square, New York Stuyvesant was Director of the Dutch West India Company’s colony of Curacao, which played a pivotal role in the Atlantic slave trade.

The Netherlands was the largest slave trader in the world between 1650 and 1675.

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

When Jack Johnson Met the Black Russian

(Special to The Root) — This is an excerpt from Vladimir Alexandrov's recent book The Black Russian, which tells the true story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, the son of former slaves in Mississippi who became a millionaire entrepreneur in czarist Moscow and the "Sultan of Jazz" in Constantinople. (For more on Thomas' incredible story, check out Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro column). One of Thomas' boldest moves was to invite Jack Johnson, the black American heavyweight-boxing champion of the world, to fight in Moscow.

An astonishing article here, about the meeting between Frederick Bruce Thomas, who made his millions in Moscow before the Revolution, and Jack Johnson, the famous American boxer. I have “The Black Russian” on my bookshelf, though I have not read it. Since I have returned to my enduring passion for Russian history, and since I have African ancestry myself, this would be a good time to familiarise myself on the limited, but most interesting history of black Americans and Africans who visited/lived in Russia and the subsequent USSR. A great article here by Vladimir Alexandrov. 

[ptseti]

Dear America.....

The brutal history of the slave trade