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The Maafa
The African
Holocaust
At
the website http://www.themaafa.com/about.htm it says that "Maafa is a Kiswahili word used to
describe a real calamity, catastrophe, tragedy or disaster. Dr. Marimba Ani
introduced it into contemporary African American scholarship as a preferred
reference to the period in world history, identified as the Middle Passage
or Transatlantic Slave Trade."
The African slave trade in
Western Europe and the Americas was a natural outgrowth of the promulgation
of the Judaic myth of the curse of black skin. Once the general white
population accepted this myth, Africans suffered both documented and
undocumented abuses at the hands of whites, both Christians and Jews.
Before
the introduction of the African slave trade to the Americas, members of the
white landed gentry used imported poor white laborers as "indentured
servants" (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servant.) Upon completion of a servant's contracted time period,
the servant was released with a certain amount of land. Apparently, landowners
balked at continually releasing their land to these bonded laborers. A way
had to be discovered to acquire a readily available supply of inexpensive
workers in a manner that would not raise the poor white public's ire.
This
would not be an easy task. Poor whites, accustomed to relying on the income
of the members of the white landed gentry, would no doubt balk at what they
perceived to be an act of disloyalty towards them. Members of the white
landed gentry would quite naturally be intimidated at even the slightest
prospect that poor whites might use force to challenge their decision to
employ inexpensive foreign labor instead of poor local whites.
Whether or not the European
Jewish community intended the final outcome is a matter of conjecture, but
the promulgation of the myth of the curse of dark skin served to accomplish
the following:
·
It facilitated the enslavement of
Africans, thereby producing a virtually "inexhaustible" supply of
inexpensive workers;
·
It forcibly relegated African slaves
to being an outlet against whom poor whites could express their misplaced
anger at having been passed over for employment by rich whites; and,
·
This slanderous myth forcibly
relegated African slaves to the position of "pariah", therefore
releasing the European Jewish community from the centuries-old oppression
it itself had suffered as a pariah at the hands of European Christians. It
also made European Jews and European Christians, if not true allies, at
least partners in crime.
African
slaves, now the West’s new "pariah" class, suffered mercilessly
at the hands of both European Christians and European Jews. African women
and female children were routinely raped by their slave owners. African men
were forced to stand by helplessly as their women and children were raped
over and over again. African men were further emasculated as they
helplessly watched white Christian and Jewish slave masters uproot members
of their families to other plantations, never to see their family members
again. African slaves were whipped at the slightest provocation by their
slave masters. African slaves were also left to the devices of poor angry
whites, who emotionally ingested the myth of the inferiority of black skin
as a means to mollify their own injured pride at having been passed over
for employment by their former bosses.
Incest
was not a rare occurrence. Dr. Richard William's book, They Stole It But
You Must Return It outlines at least one occurrence where a mother had a
son that she dropped in the fire while engaging in housework. Eventually
the child was sold to another slave owner. Many years later, unbeknown to
the mother, the man was presented to her as a mate. One day, the woman
asked the man how he had received the terrible scar to the side of his
face. The man replied that when he was little, his mother dropped him in
the fire. The woman, realizing that the man was her son, fainted.
African
slaves were routinely whipped, sometimes to the point of death, if only to
establish the doctrine of white supremacy. Oftentimes African slaves were
malnourished and improperly clothed for the cold weather to which they were
not accustomed.
During
the Middle Passage, millions of Africans died. According to the
website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maafa, the number of Africans slaves who died during the Middle Passage
was underestimated. This site states that the number of African slaves who
died is anywhere between 40 million and 100 million. African slaves were
routinely thrown off ships when rations were tight, or in order for white
slavers to outwit insurance providers.
The
Maafa did not end with the Emancipation Proclamation. The website http://www.blackwallstreet.freeservers.com gives accounts of several African diasporal towns that
were firebombed and burned to the ground by white mobs. For example:
·
The Tulsa Race Riot of May 31, 1921,
where 36 square blocks of African-owned homes, churches, schools and
businesses were fired bombed. Hundreds of African Americans were killed;
·
The massacre in Rosewood, Florida in
January 1923;
·
The East St. Louis massacre on July
1, 1917.
·
According to the website mentioned
above, "between 1824 and 1951 there were over 300 events classified as
"White Race Riots" in which entire white communities turned on
and destroyed entire Black communities and murdered Blacks in mass."
Many of these towns have not been rebuilt in a manner that would reflect
their past successes.
From
the time of the enslavement of Africans, up to and including the 20th
century, diasporal Africans were routinely lynched by white mobs. Many were
lynched and burned while genteel white women and innocent white children
looked on in sadistic glee. The website http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aapmob.html states that "in the South, lynching was one of
the terrorist tactics used to control and threaten the African-American.
Between 1889 and 1918, a total of 2,522 black Americans were lynched, 50 of
them women. These people were hanged, burned alive, or hacked to
death." African American men were also hanged and had their genitals
hacked off.
During
the early and middle part of the 20th century, the United States, like
South Africa, was an apartheid government. Segregation abounded in
neighborhoods, schools, churches and employment. The Jewish myth of the
inferiority of black skin adversely affected African people's ability to
comfortably ride a bus, use a public bathroom and sip water from a public
water fountain or vote. African employees were routinely underpaid.
The
website http://www.jewishtribalreview.org/exploit.htm speaks of the exploitation of African Americans by
European Jews. It goes on to explain that on the eve of the Depression,
"more than half of working Black women and a quarter of working Black
men were servants. In the 1930s, when most Black women were unemployed
because of the Depression, on certain corners of the Bronx there existed
what was called the Bronx Slave Market. Black women gathered at 8 AM, rain
or shine, summer or winter, hoping to be hired by Bronx women to do
housework for fifteen to thirty cents an hour. Most of these housewives
were Jewish; business was best before the Jewish holidays ... Most
middle-class Jews grew up with the 'schvartze' (literally, 'black,' but
actually 'nigger') who came to clean once or twice a week. She never really
had a name; she was always the 'schvartze.' Women used to ask each other,
'Is your schvartze free on Thursday? My schvartze didn't come in this
week."
In
the United States, as in Western Europe and Africa, the Jewish myth of the
inferiority of black skin still permeates the minds of the public. An
insidious racism still exists in the souls of many white people. Although
many swear that they are always politically correct with others and
tolerant of other races and ethnic groups, most whites live in
neighborhoods where blacks, even middle-class or affluent blacks, have not
been able to live or start businesses. Furthermore, although most whites
spend a considerable portion of their monies with members of their own
ethnic groups, blacks spend most of their monies with individuals and
businesses outside of their ethnic groups.
America’s
oppression of African/black/dark-skinned people has not ended. The European-Jewish
doctrine regarding the curse of Ham/Canaan has found its way into American
society. There exists a plethora of evidence to support this.
One
tenet of the African Reparations movement is to legally mandate corporate
conglomerates with ties to the enslavement of Africans to disclose those
ties. Many of these conglomerates, whose presidents or chief executive
officers are whites, are loath to remove their “caring for people” façade
to expose their real covering -- corporate greed that hundreds of years
ago, was the engine that powered their oppressive enslavement of Africans.
Africans’ right to know the full history of U.S. corporations’ hatred,
enslavement and oppression towards them is not important to them. These
corporations are as oppressive in their desire not to educate Africans of
the Maafa as they were when they supported their right not to educate
enslaved Africans.
Some
U.S. government representatives, as well as some members of the modern-day
European Jewish community are not so far removed from the practice of
oppressing Africans. Once such experience took place over the course of a
few years. Dr. Peggy K. Pearlstein, of the United States Library of
Congress and Alex Beckles of Congressman Edolphus Towns’ office was
contacted regarding the book Artsot Ha Hayyim. This book is written in
Hebrew in 1992. On page 52 of the book, it states that Presidents Lincoln
and Kennedy were killed because of their positive attitudes towards black
people and that anyone who adopts a progressive attitude toward black
people will suffer the same fate because blacks are meant to be enslaved.
Sharon
Horowitz was first contacted regarding this book. When Ms. Horowitz was
asked if she could speak Hebrew, she answered in the affirmative. Ms.
Horowitz sent what was believed to be 52A and 52B of the book. Ms. Horowitz
went so far as to write “page 52 Side A” and “page 52 Side B” on the pages
she mailed. Afterwards, a visit was paid to the Manhattan Public Library’s
Dorot Jewish section where a librarian was asked to get the book. When the
librarian was shown the pages received from Ms. Horowitz, the librarian
laughed and said that the pages were 42A and 42B, not pages 52A and 52B.
(Please see pages 42 A and B on which Ms. Horowitz wrote "Page 52 side
A" and Page 52 side B" below.)
The
librarian said she had the book and went to get it. When she returned, she
said she did not have it. Later, a complaint was made to an official of the
library, stating that the Dorot Section was withholding the book because of
the damning information it contained. The following day, pages 52A and 52B
were faxed from the Manhattan Public Library. When Ms. Horowitz was
contacted and presented with proof that she lied about pages 42 A and B,
she also faxed what appeared to be page 52 A and B. Upon comparing the
faxed pages from the Manhattan Public Library and the Library of Congress,
the pages were finally found to be identical.
The
last attempt at having the book translated was with Dr. Peggy Pearlstein of
the Library of Congress. Like Ms. Horowitz and the Jewish librarians at the
Manhattan Public Library, Dr. Pearlstein mounted the same resistance. Dr.
Pearlstein refused, stating that the Library of Congress only translates
for congresspersons and their staff. According to Alex Beckles of
Congressman Edolphus Towns’ office, he contacted the Library of Congress to
request to have the book translated. As of the date of this website's
latest revision, neither Congressman Towns’ nor the Library of Congress has
provided a translated copy of the book Artsot Ha-Hayyim.
Once
can safely assume that U.S.-based multimillion-dollar corporate
conglomerates that receive federal funding and U.S. agencies like the
Library of Congress that have Jewish reference materials that point to the
European-Jewish community’s oppression of Africans will continue to oppress
Africans by withholding information regarding their involvement in the
African slave trade. Their past refusal to educate present-day Africans
regarding their debauched involvement in the defamation, kidnapping,
murder, rape, starvation, failure to fairly financially compensate for work
performed, failure to educate, failure to maintain accurate family names,
languages and cultures and the failure to protect the human rights of
Africans has translated into modern-day oppression. This oppression
includes, but is not limited to neighborhoods where Africans are shot and
killed by white police officers for having a wallet that looked like a gun;
for having a mysterious, unidentifiable person who said “gun,” and for
having no gun or open air that looked like a gun. African diasporal
neighborhoods are ravished by poor performing schools that have little to
no supplies, peeling paint and poorly kept schools while unionized teachers
are given regular raises to their salaries. In many corporations, there
still exists the disparity in salary between Africans and whites who
perform the same jobs.
The
oppression of dark-skinned people is not limited to the United States. The
current war in Iraq, tooted by the government as an attempt to “bring
democracy to the region” is nothing more than the wishes of
white-controlled U.S./European countries to control the flow of oil. That
thousands of dark-skinned Iraqis are dying as a result of this war is of no
consequence to the United States. No sooner was Iraq’s former head Saddam
Hussein found guilty than there was discovered a new “number 2” person
found – yet another dark-skinned individual whom the United States can
defame to hide to its white supremacist intentions and its inability to
curtail its own greed. Dark-skinned Iraqis are held in detention centers in
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they virtually have no rights. Many of these
prisoners have been abused by U.S. soldiers -- most of whom are white.
The
American media's defamatory portrayal of non-white heads of state who have
successfully rebuffed the advances of white countries is not new. Kim Jung
Il of North Korea – axis of evil; Hugo Chavez of Venezuela – axis of evil;
Fidel Castro of Cuba – axis of evil; Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe – axis of
evil; Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran – axis of evil – the parade of non-white
heads of state whose countries the United States and Europe cannot easily
overthrow and suck dry like African slaves continues to grow, as does the
oppression of dark-skinned people, who whether they surrender or fight,
have never been able to thwart the wicked machinations of white
supremacists.
It
is clear that the Maafa has not yet ended. Clear proof of this is the
European Jewish community's impelling the governments of some European
countries to promulgate laws making it illegal to deny the Jewish
Holocaust. European Jewish corporate bodies like the Anti-Defamation League
exist to protect the history of Jewish suffering. However, no such laws or
institutions exist to document the European Jewish community's involvement
in the African Holocaust. There exists firsthand knowledge of the refusal
of the Anti-Defamation League's president, Abraham H. Foxman to engage in
any discussion regarding the European Jewish community's involvement in the
promulgation of the slanderous myth regarding the curse of black skin, and
its subsequent involvement in the African slave trade. Elie Wiesel, a
Jewish Holocaust survivor perceived by the public to be a champion for
human rights, when contacted regarding the slanderous Jewish myths that
precipitated the oppressive Maafa, offered no comment.
Even
the white Christian majority, most of who appear superficially not to
discriminate, openly discriminate against Africans in that they are
completely unsupportive of diasporal Africans' righteous demands for
reparations. Even in the face of mounting evidence that there are
reparations granted to formerly oppressed people such as: the granting of
both land and money to the Inuit (Eskimo) people, Japan's granting monies
to Korean women who had been raped by Japanese soldiers, the massive
amounts of money granted to post-WWII Jews who were victims of the
Holocaust and countless others, the United States government uses the media's
ability to exacerbate white people's Jewish-religiously-fomented hatred of
African people to avoid making reparations.
Up
until the present time, some whites still play a role in preventing the
dissemination of the African Holocaust. Daniel Sullivan, the Vice President
and General Counsel of Lycos, refused to explain why the original website
concerning this subject was removed (http://africandiasporal.tripod.com/). It was not until several weeks after Lycos removed the
site that the reason for the site's removal was discovered -- because it
showed images of black men in various stages of having been lynched by
whites during centuries-old African Holocaust.
Would Lycos have removed a
similar site had it shown photos of Jews during their holocaust? While it
will never be known for sure, one can safely surmise that a lot more leeway
would have been given to them to disseminate information regarding their
holocaust – including photographs, no matter how gruesome.
Due
in great part to the white public's Jewish religiously-fomented intolerance
of black skin, the Maafa is subjected to all forms of deformation and
denial. Most recent of these is blame reassignment and statistical
downsizing of the numbers of African slaves who were trafficked and who
died.
Does
the continued existence of the Maafa mean that the Jewish slander that was
launched against Africans so long ago still exists? If the answer is in the
affirmative, what has the African diasporal community lost as a result of
the Jewish religiously-fomented slanderous myth regarding the inferiority
of black skin?
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