It's hard to believe
people were slaves.
It's harder to believe
there are still slaves
in the world:
The West turns its back
on the new slave markets.
The UN Human Rights
Council welcomes
states such as Sudan,
where tens of thousands
of women and children
from mostly Christian
villages were enslaved
during Jihadi raids.
And Mauritania, where
two in every 100 people
are still held as slaves.
Meanwhile,
the UN Human
Rights Council
does NOT want
to investigate
real slave traders,
and racists,
who could not care
less about the UN
and the street
protests in the U.S.
I don't get it.
On the subject of slavery:
Apparently, white people
are being called racist
because a tiny percentage
of them had ancestors
who owned slaves over
150 years ago.
I don't get it.
I understand wanting
to peacefully remove
statues of the confederate
generals -- all Democrats --
who lost the Civil War.
I had no idea such statues
existed until about 10 years
ago, when a relative moved
to South Carolina.
I couldn't believe the losers
got statues, and can't believe
they were not banished
to museums long ago.
People seem
to know little
about slavery.
Slaves in Africa were
not seized by white men
marching into Africa
with guns.
Black tribal leaders SOLD
black prisoners or war and
criminals to mainly Arab
slave traders.
People have no idea that
about 10% of US slaves
were held captive in states
whose men fought
with Republican
Abe Lincoln, fighting
against slavery !
Those slaves were
deliberately NOT freed
by the Emancipation
Proclamation.
And leaders in the
Confederate states
did NOT take orders from
Republican president
Lincoln, so their slaves
remained in chains until
the Republican Union
armies reached them,
and freed them.
Activists in
Washington DC
targeted an
Emancipation
Memorial, paid for
by ex-slaves,
depicting President
Abraham Lincoln,
who paid with his life
for freeing slaves.
Meanwhile,
ongoing slavery
is alive and well,
and ignored.
There are no protests.
An investigation by
BBC Arabic found
that domestic workers
in Saudi Arabia are
even being sold online
in a slave market
that is booming.
Algerian author
Mohammed Sifaoui
reminds all of us that
"Mauritania, in North Africa,
is the most slavery-supporting
country in the world today.
Qatar in the Middle East
is as well, just as much,
[as is] Saudi Arabia,
under the banner of
the Guardians of the
Holy Places of Islam".
The author Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
who fled her homeland of
Somalia and now lives
in the US, writes:
"What the media
do not tell you is that
America is the best place
on the planet to be black,
female, gay, trans or
what have you.
We have
our problems
and we need
to address those.
But our society
and our systems
are far from racist".
Hirsi Ali, who fled Somalia
and experienced female
genital mutilation, knows
about oppression better
than anti-statues activists.
According to Hirsi Ali,
writing in The Wall Street
Journal:
"When I hear it said
that the U.S. is defined
above all by racism,
when I see books
such as Robin DiAngelo's
'White Fragility' top
the bestseller list,
when I read of educators
and journalists being fired
for daring to question
the orthodoxies of
Black Lives Matter
—then I feel obliged
to speak up...
America looks different
if you grew up, as I did,
in Africa and the
Middle East".
Zineb el Rhazoui,
a Moroccan-born
anti-Islamist
French journalist
facing death threats,
recently said:
"The only racism
I suffer from
comes from
North Africans.
For the Algerians,
I am a Moroccan
whore.
For Moroccans,
I am an Algerian
whore.
For both, a 'whore
of the Jews'".
