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Please see the attached video taped conversation on REPARATIONS between Dr. PEDROย  WELCH, the chairman of the Barbados National Task Force on Reparations, and DAVIDย  COMISSIONG in his role as host of the University of the West Indies REGIONย  TALK television programme.

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  1. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Onlookers take your pick these are either Operatives with an agenda or fit the description above as extreme Racists……who do not think rationally.

    My intervention on this post has always been to show that mans inhumanity to man transcends tribes and melanin content.

    We human beings are all guilty of extreme cruelty at one time or the other over millenia all over Mother Earth.

    One race the Human race….many tribes,many skintones….the same basic DNA….all guilty as charged.

  2. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Bushman……they know not that they know not,….

    They see not that they see not….

    Lost in the wilderness…

    In total darkness

    The accounting is real…

    Karma is real…

  3. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Vincent…no one is trying to do white people anything..

    There is no need to…

    They did it to themselves centurues ago…

    A debt must be paid…

    Karma is real.


  4. Vinni @9.04
    Exactly what others are missing.

  5. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Africans are taking back ALL of their countries.

    You useless bottomfeeding agents and imps of darkness.

    Read and weep, let it kills ya wicked asses.

    Farmers are the secret ingredient for Ghanaโ€™s most innovative startups
    Stacey Knott 5 hours ago Quartz Africa
    Bernice Adu-Boahen from Farmerline explains to Sam Emmanuel how the Mergdata service works at Sam’s farm in Gyinase, Kumasi, Ghana. Mergdata gives farmers useful information like weather, market prices and farming tips on their mobile phones to help them improve their harvest and get the best prices for it.

    Savvy young entrepreneurs in Ghana are turning to the country’s farmers as source of inspiration for their ideas. (Farmerline)

    Accra, Ghana
    In 2012, Kwami Williams was studying at MIT to become a rocket scientist when he took a trip to his home country of Ghana with some of his classmates. There, he was introduced to the moringa, a sturdy tree dotting impoverished farming communities throughout the country. Williams, 20 at the time, was asked by the farmers he met if it was possible to make money from the moringa, called the โ€œmiracle treeโ€ for its hardiness and multiple uses. Finding the answer to that question would change the trajectory of his life.

    In the space of just a few years, Williams would go from studying space to selling beauty products sourced from the moringa, opening a new commercial opportunity for local farmers through the process. His company, MoringaConnect, is part of a wave of savvy young entrepreneurs who are turning to the countryโ€™s troubled agricultural sector, and the millions of farmers toiling in it, as source of inspiration for their ideas.

    โ€œFarmers are the origin of our business idea, and their input and participation have been invaluable in our success to date,โ€ Williams says. โ€œOur vertically integrated model is an evolution of ideas our farmers shared about guaranteeing their harvest, centralizing processing, and connecting it to distribution.โ€
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    The farmers who grow the moringa tree inspired Kwami Williams and fellow student Emily Cunningham to start MoringaConnect. (MoringaConnect)
    Social startups

    Though a commercially savvy business, MoringaConnect is whatโ€™s classified as a social enterprise, one that uses trade to address social and environmental problems. Most startup funding by traditional venture capital focuses on sectors like software, financial technology, and e-commerce, which may be riskier but can be more profitable businesses to build and sell or even take public. Social enterprise startups focus on income generation, but reinvest their profits into their social mission.

    The number of social enterprise startups in Ghana has spiked since 2012, according to a 2016 report (pdf) by the British Council. The 98 social enterprise startups studied by the Council had created a total of 958 jobs between them (based on staff numbers in 2015), and generated a combined turnover of around 8 million Ghana cedi ($2 million).

    Startups focused on agriculture and fisheries made up 33% of the total surveyed. This sector employs around half of the countryโ€™s working population, but World Bank statistics show there has been a sharp decline in the last decade of agricultureโ€™s contribution to Ghanaโ€™s GDP, as the industry deals with challenges such as a lack of access to farming equipment, market information, and stable buyers.

    In these challenges, some local startups see opportunity. With youth unemployment estimated to be at 11.5% in 2016, a few young Ghanaians are increasingly choosing not to wait to get lucky in a job. Instead theyโ€™re identifying the gaps in the market and are tackling them, finding ways to not only help farmersโ€™ prospects, but to create wealth.

    โ€œMany young people are seeing agriculture as a sector they can develop and grow in scale,โ€ says Dziffa Ametam, a lecturer at Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Ghana, which helps young entrepreneurs develop startups.
    Mobile agriculture

    Mobile technology also has a prominent role in a number of the agriculture startups, like Trotro Tractor, which has an interesting agricultural twist on the sharing economy. The company, launched last year, links farmers with tractor owners in Ghana via mobile phone codes. Farmers dial a code to request the use of a tractor, which they can then pay for with mobile money. Trotro Tractorโ€™s founders include a cattle farmer and a vegetable farmer.
    A tractor operator helps a farmer with a request made through the Trotro Tractor service, where farmers dial a code to book a tractor to plow their land.

    A tractor operator helps a farmer with a request made through the Trotro Tractor service, where farmers dial a code to book a tractor to plow their land. (Trotro Tractor)
    After an initial test run earlier this year, where a total of 600 acres were plowed across farms in Ghana, Trotro Tractor found they were able to make a profit by charging the tractor owner a commission when connecting them to a farmer.

    Chief executive Kamal Yakub says he has found a ready market, noting farmers are willing to use technology as long as it doesnโ€™t cost them a lot.โ€œThey are customers who will not deny us of business, in that sense,โ€ says Yakub. โ€œWhen we bring technology that solves their problems, they will buy into the technology.โ€

    While the initial startup costs were high, covering visits to farming communities throughout the country to introduce them to the service, Yakub expects Trotro Tractorโ€™s revenue to be 10.9 million Ghana cedi ($2.5 million) by 2022. Since launching last year, the company has received 219,400 Ghana cedi ($50,000) in funding from oil and gas firm KOSMOS Energy and 10,000 Ghana cedi ($2,300) from the British Council.
    Many of those getting involved wit
    h the agriculture sector have had personal experience with it. This is the case with Farmerline, which also bases part of its business plan on connecting farmers with services they need, via a few simple buttons on their phone.

    Co-founder Alloysius Attah set up the company in 2012. Like many other young people in Ghana, he grew up in a farming community and witnessed his aunt struggle to farm with limited access to weather and market information. The mother of Farmerlineโ€™s co-founder, Emmanuel Owusu Addai, ran a health clinic in a farming community where farmers often struggled to pay their medical bills.
    โ€œThese are things that stay with you all your life,โ€ Attah says. โ€œItโ€™s your world, so when we got a chance to do something about it, it just came naturally.โ€

    Farmerline allows users to subscribe to weather, crop, and market information services, which they can receive as a voice message in their chosen dialect for a fee. It also gives NGOs and businesses access to farming data, such as farm mapping and auditing.

    So far, Farmerline is used by 200,000 farmers in 10 African countries. The company says some farmers have been able to increase their revenues (pdf) by over 50% using the information service. The company has attracted more than 4.4 million Ghana cedi ($1 million) in overseas investments and was recently awarded 367 ,000 Ghana cedi ($83,750) for the King Baudouin African Development Prize. However Attah says the companyโ€™s growth is largely driven by revenues from business clients.

    Attah is proud that Farmerline has attracted young, bright employees who might otherwise have looked to large, successful corporations to jumpstart their careers. โ€œItโ€™s always been โ€˜Get into the MTNs of the world and the banks of the world to get a great resume,โ€ Attah says. By July, the company will have 32 employees, all aged below 34. โ€œThey can develop their career and have the impact and opportunity to do good as well.โ€

    MoringaConnect, which Williams co-founded with fellow student Emily Cunningham, combines training, technology, and a supply chain to ship products from the moringa tree around the world. The oil from moringa seeds is used in a line of upmarket beauty products sold online through services like Birchbox, and in independent health shops like Cambridge Naturals. They also sell nutrient-dense tea made from the leaves. Williams says they are on track to break-even this year.
    The company now works with more than 2,500 small farming families throughout Ghana, guaranteeing it will buy 100% of what they produce, while encouraging the farmers to also use the leaves as a stable food source.

    Williams, named a Quartz Africa Innovator this year, likes to give farmers the products made from their trees โ€œso they really understand they are partners with us in creating this.โ€ Some of the major funders who have backed MoringaConnect include Vested World and Invictus Africa, with grants from Greater Impact Foundation, Echoing Green and MIT D-Lab Scale Ups. So far the company has raised $1.2 million, Williams says.

    Farmers working with MoringaConnect increase their incomes, the company says. Planting a full acre of moringa can increase incomes from around 3,500 Ghana cedi ($800) to upwards of 13,000 Ghana cedi ($3,000), according to the company. โ€œWe definitely focus on creating a win-win relationship with the farmers so you have a secure supply base,โ€ Williams said.
    Thereโ€™s still a lot of room for innovative startups in Ghanaโ€™s agricultural sector, especially if they can create sustainable business models. The African Center for Economic Transformation is about to embark on a study with Michigan State University in order to better understand whatโ€™s driving youth-led agricultural enterprises in Ghana and Tanzania and whatโ€™s needed to further develop them. The ultimate goal of the study is to create a program to help ten startups led by young people move their businesses to the next level, according to Dr. Julius Gatune, senior research and policy advisor at the Center.

    MESTโ€™s Ametam sees massive potential for entrepreneurial Ghanaians to change the agricultural sector into a productive, sustainable, multibillion-dollar industry, harnessing innovative technology, creating jobs, and increasing revenues for farmers.
    โ€œIโ€™m beyond optimistic about the future,โ€ Ametam says. โ€œNow, more than ever, there are more young Ghanaians who are paying attention to problems around them and not waiting around for someone to come solve it for them.โ€
    Sign up for the Quartz Africa Weekly Brief โ€” the most important and interesting news from across the continent, in your inbox.”


  6. Onlookers take your pick these are either Operatives with an agenda or fit the description above as extreme Racistsโ€ฆโ€ฆwho do not think rationally
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    That’s why Trump won and why he will overcome the senseless drivel directed at him!!!!

    Imagine, big able grown ups know voters are voting change and against the establishment and still put forward a candidate who says she will give the voters more of the same!!!

    The Obama Presidency was a complete disaster … Clinton is a crook!!

    The same grown ups raised Cain at the thought Trump would not accept the outcome of the elections and now don’t accept the outcome of the elections and raising hell.

    Trump offers what American voters want!!

    Clinton did not.

    You think people stupid!!

    I sit and laugh!!

    The lunatic left is so easy to expose because they haven’t got a clue about facts and have not got the humility to accept that fact.

    Life goes on!!


  7. โ—„ Psalm 87:7 โ–บ
    Parallel Verses
    King James Version
    As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.

    Darby Bible Translation
    As well the singers as the dancers shall say, All my springs are in thee.

    Narration, Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari

    Peace Love and Joy

    Greetings once again from the Rastafari brethren

    Domicile on this former slave plantation island Jamaica

    Jamaica is an island in the Caribbean

    They say Caribbean but if I remember clearly

    it was carried us beyond our borders

    not by free will but by force

    Force like in 1565 when John Hawkins was given a Royal Charter

    from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 1st of England

    and her personal ship the SS Jesus of Lubek

    to transport slaves from Africa to the West Indies

    As the History states his methods were crude though effective

    He just landed on the Guinea Coast seized 300 negroes

    and veered toward the Caribbean with his Human Cargo

    They call us Human Cargo

    I say that is infamy

    Rastafari brethren conception

    through the love and the study of the bible

    the history of man on the earth

    and since there is no limitation on man’s faculties

    we derive the conception

    based on the divinity and the character

    of His Imperial Majesty

    Emperor Haile Selassie First of Ethiopia

    King of Kings Lord of Lords Conquering Lion of Judah

    We also hold fast the conception

    of redemption which is repatriation

    to our Mother Home Africa

    In Revelation Five

    When John could find no one worthy to open the book

    nor to loosen the seven seals thereof

    he heard a voice say

    “Weep not behold
    the Lion from the Tribe of Judah
    the root and the offspring of David
    has prepared to open the book
    and lose the seven seals thereof”

    We the Rastafari brethren

    interpret the seven seals

    as our two eyes

    our two nostrils

    our two ears

    and our mouth

    these are our seven burning candlesticks

    which cause any man to make any conception

    At the Coronation of His Imperial Majesty in 1930

    as King of King Lord of Lords the Mighty Conquering Lion in the Tribe of Judah

    it gave light to the Rastafari Movement

    because they had seen the hope and their heritage

    and it was written in the Holy writ Psalms 137

    “By the rivers of Babylon where we sat and wept
    Yea we wept when we remembered Zion.
    We hung our harps in the midst of the willows thereof
    for there our captors required from us our songs,
    for they who carried us away captives
    our tormentors they said, โ€œSing us one of the songs of Zion!โ€

    Yes here we are carried away as captives

    thousands of miles for thousands of years

    as one would say they are not from Africa

    but they should remember

    that man’s immortality is within man’s possession

    and it was against the will of my forefather

    and it is now against the will of I

    and all Rastafari brethren

    It is also written

    that when the seven seals were opened

    John saw a bright angel proclaiming in a loud voice

    and he said who is worthy to open the book

    and to lose the seven seals thereof

    it was again said

    in the Act of the Apostles

    according to the lines according to the flesh

    God shall rise of Christ and sit upon David’s throne

    It is also written in Revelation 17

    that all nations were beasts

    and they had one mind

    and they would wage war upon the lamb

    and the lamb would overcome them

    for he is King of Kings and Lord of Lords

    and they that follow him according to faith are chosen

    1935 Mussolini and his army invaded Ethiopia

    They even made breaches of the war law

    by releasing poison gas

    on the defenceless people of Ethiopia

    to take away their kingdom

    His Imperial Majesty went to the League of Nations

    predecessor of the now United Nations

    and when he asked
    “What must I go back and tell my defenceless people?”

    the conference went up in a chair

    Mussolini himself and said
    “We would want to see the day that Britain will go to war and spill blood for a barbarous nation as Ethiopia, unworthy of ranking amongst civilised people”

    that is also infamy

    because His Imperial Majesty replied
    “You have struck the match in Ethiopia
    but it shall burn in Europe
    God and History shall recall your Judgement
    and if you do not go by free will
    then you must go by force”

    What happened then
    Italy was in Ethiopia
    stabbed Britain in the back
    and sided with Germany

    Germany was coming up through
    the Straights of Gibraltar with an Army
    to take away the British Possession in Africa
    in North Africa which was Egypt Sudan and those places
    Hence they didn’t go by free will
    but they had to go by force

    Because if Britain did not get Italy out of her back
    by aiding Ethiopia to recover then she would also lose her possession

    So as it was said and was seen and was heard
    Britain had to bow by force

    Now
    everyone
    is living

    some say you must die to go to heaven
    all the people who say you must die to go to heaven
    they have more doctors than those who say they are going to live on

    so the inner man in every man wants to live
    and man is fooling himself
    with a doctrine of death

    We the Rastafari brethren
    our doctrine is based on
    Peace and Love

    What is Love
    Love is a cohesive force
    that binds all of us
    and make them self
    something Natural for Man
    to follow so that Man can keep on living

    If it wasn’t for Love
    the world would not advance
    to the stage where it is

    But if it wasn’t for War
    we would go ten times further

    Love is God
    and God is Love
    and to always love God love Love
    for God is Love in Man

    Man is only comprehensive
    only universal being of all form of life

    Some say God is River
    Some say God is Stone
    Some say God is Sun
    Some say God is Spirit
    Some even say God is Trees

    But who is saying all this
    M
    A
    N
    Man

    Hence
    God is in Man
    When man is within Love

    For when he is within War
    and when he is within Hate
    He is within Satan

    His only true love
    that he can preach
    is the genesis of life
    that was the gift of God
    it was written
    it was written that the wages of sins are death
    and the gift of God is eternal life

    So true love
    one can see the light
    the light is understanding
    and understanding of meaning
    mankind move on for all life


  8. Africans are taking back ALL of their countries.
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Africa now has a chance because Christianity has taken root.

    It is all in the mind!!

    BTW, all their countries did not used to exist!!


  9. LOL @ Vincent
    Boss, let Money B wipe his own behind nuh!!!
    NO ONE disputes that all races are infested with evil so&sos….. We have Froon…

    BUT…
    Since you are speaking for Money B, …and since he seems to be at an unprecedented loss for words, … tell us of ANY OTHER situation where a race of people has systematically, …and for multiple CENTURIES…, tormented and dehumanised another race – simply for materialistic ends….and because they had the weapons to do so…

    …not for revenge against wrongs done to them.
    …not to gain control of the population
    …not because of any threat to their existence

    …ONLY to make profit.

    Which other race even comes near….?
    Do you grasp the concept of ‘albino-centric’ yet…?


  10. John
    Trump won the election for the very same reason that you are so confused…

    Satan controls this world, and BBE has taken a step back to allow your kind of thinking to prevail for a time, and times, and half a time…..

    …anyway – Bushie gotta get some exercise…
    It is walking time…. ๐Ÿ™‚

  11. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    But what is really gonna hurt these imps of darkness and their masters….blacks will not need nuclear or any other weapons to take control of what is rightfully theirs…only the powers of the spiritual dimension…

    And in unison….are unstoppable.

    Cant stop the unity either, it is invisible…untouchable.

    Not for the blind to see.


  12. Money Brain has 3 Id’s called one called Vincent and one called John to agree with each other

    and claim they are the ones being cleverest to bamboozle Bajan’s

    None of them live in Barbados and none of them would get any reparation compensation and they whinge about their mafia tax being spent on the real negroes

  13. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Every time they see how black Africa is rising, is progressing, every time they see how majority blacks in Barbados and the Caribbean are shaking off their blood sucking, selfish, parasitic ways and physical presence in their affairs….and are insteading seeking to uplift themselves and their future generations, the imps and their masters will die a thousand deaths….die a little more each day, until there is nothing left.

  14. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    Now John is starting to babble the nonsensical..

    I will retreat and give him time to recover…lol


  15. I provide a link earlier explain the different levels of Brains

    0 Money Brane
    0 John Earthquake
    0 Vincent the Stained Sycophant

    need to learn to operate their Branes at Higher Level

    Lay off the alcohol
    and evolve your Industrial, Feudal, National, Multi-National High Industrial Brane

    and light up the chalice
    for cyber-somatic piloting sensory information to achieve mastery of hedonic-aesthetic linkage

    Info-psychology : a manual on the use of the human nervous system according to the instructions of the manufacturers and a navigational guide for plotting the evolution of the human individual

    https://archive.org/details/mainfopsychology00learrich

    Read Review and Revert when you Ready
    Speake You’re Braine


  16. tell us of ANY OTHER situation where a race of people has systematically, โ€ฆand for multiple CENTURIESโ€ฆ, tormented and dehumanised another race โ€“
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    The Arabs conquered, colonized and enslaved the “Negro Nations” of Africa for more than a millennia!!

    1 millennia = 10 centuries!!

    That is a lot of centuries!!

    In fact by the 15th century they were writing that the “Negro Nations” lent themselves to slavery to which they were most suited.

    But the Arabs are no more a race than the “Negro Nations” or for that matter the Europeans!!

    All are Human Beings, imperfect ….. but nonetheless … Human Beings!!


  17. You see what I mean about simple facts …. the same question posed …. over and over again and the answer is there … staring everyone in their eyes!!

    What’s next??!!

    Ridiculous!!


  18. The Arabs conquered, colonized and enslaved the โ€œNegro Nationsโ€ of Africa for more than a millennia!!

    =

    Prove it 2 face cunt face

    have white slaver nations set up the misinformation links for you
    or are you shooting your mouth off from your hip again making shit up too

    White scum have to pay for being scum that they are

    Do you live with Quakers when you type up shit


  19. Timbuktu was 7 times bigger than London and more Civilised

    before European settlers destroyed it


  20. Muslims don’t racially segregate like the white scum

    who divided people into races

  21. Well Well @ Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well @ Consequences Observing Blogger

    england is a shitty, dreary little island, Guyana is bigger than UK.

    MoneyB…how ya like the delusions playing out, its more taking the shape of someones nightmare waiting to come alive…lol

    but wait, dont blink yet there is still the coup de grace…if ya blink, ya will miss it.


  22. Timbuktu was 7 times bigger than London and more Civilised
    before European settlers destroyed it
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++

    I call ….. prove it!!


  23. Rubber Johnny

    Read up on Timbuktu from impartial sites or books

    not partial alt-right white misinformation sites feeding you white crap
    to cut and paste as mindless spam without undertsnding

    +++

    Where do you think Mansa Musha lived branes ?

    you must be Money branes in disguise


  24. http://www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/04/reviews/010304.04hochsct.html

    Looks like this book might be a good read!!

    Human Cargo

    A study of the little-known slave trade in the Islamic world.
    By ADAM HOCHSCHILD

    “Early on in ”Islam’s Black Slaves,” his history of slavery in the Muslim world, Ronald Segal cites some estimates. One scholar puts the rough total at 11.5 million slaves during more than a dozen centuries, and another at 14 million.

    We will never know the precise number, of course, but it is striking that these two figures neatly bracket many scholars’ estimates for the much-better-documented Atlantic slave trade.

    So why in the West today do we generally pay so little attention to Islamic slavery? One reason, suggests Segal, a South African-born editor and the author of ”The Black Diaspora,” is that in the Muslim world slavery never became the publicly fought moral and political issue that it did in the United States and Europe.

    Islamic slavery began long before the Atlantic slave trade, and its purposes were largely different. Although some slaves were put to work in the fields, they were more valued as items of conspicuous consumption. The Muslim elite wanted them as guards and soldiers, as concubines, as cooks, as musicians and simply to show how rich they were: a 10th-century caliph of Baghdad had 11,000 slaves at his palace.

    The boundary between slavery and freedom, or at least between slavery and power, was much more fluid than in the West. The Ottoman sultan commonly married off his daughters and sisters to slaves, and in this and many other Islamic regimes, slaves or former slaves reached astonishingly high positions. Baybars, a former Turkish slave, led an army that defeated a Mongol invasion of Egypt in 1260; there were other slave generals as well. An Ethiopian slave became vizier to the sultan of Delhi and later governor of a province. A caliph who ruled in Egypt for most of the 11th century was the son of a black slave concubine. A Slavic slave — not all slaves were Africans — was governor of Valencia in Islamic Spain.
    All this will seem strange to many American eyes. Apparently the reason monarchs made so many slaves high officials was that they were dependably loyal — more so than members of rival clans or leaders with local constituencies. But how can you be loyal to someone who has deprived you of your freedom? This is a mystery Segal does not explore.

    Indeed, freedom was not the only thing slaves lost. Many of the males were eunuchs. A still larger number, in the long centuries before modern surgery, did not survive the slash of the knife. Eunuchs’ jobs included, among other things, guarding harems. But much more mystifying is the honor accorded to senior eunuchs. Many were among those governors and generals, and under the Ottomans, one black eunuch was chief administrator of Mecca and Medina. In the late 19th century, an observer noticed that ”when any eunuch . . . enters one of the tramcars in Stamboul, all the Turks who may happen to be in the vehicle immediately rise, salaam profoundly and remain standing till the great man has chosen a seat.” Did the fact that the ”great man’s” owner was the sultan outweigh his status as a slave? Or did his being a eunuch contribute to his status, as celibacy, in a way, does to the status of a Roman Catholic priest? Segal again leaves us in the dark here.

    The last two chapters of the book bring the story up to the present, and appropriately so. One is about how slavery continues in some Islamic countries today, especially Sudan and Mauritania. In the case of Mauritania, some of the fault lies with its former colonizers, the French: Segal points out how they reached a quiet accommodation with slaveholders, rather than risk rebellions from the local power structure. His final chapter looks at the rise of the Nation of Islam in the United States, some of whose members might be disillusioned if they read this book. Their attraction to Islam is easy enough to understand: it seemed an alternative to Christianity, under whose auspices Atlantic slavery and then segregation flourished. But the-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend is no better a principle in religion than in politics.

    In the end, neither Christianity nor Islam is that different from most other major religions, which usually remain major because they sanctify whatever is the social structure of the day. And for centuries that structure was one of slavery. As Seymour Drescher, one of the finest historians of abolition, puts it, just 200 years ago ”personal bondage was the prevailing form of labor in most of the world. . . . Freedom, not slavery, was the peculiar institution.” Servitude stretched from serfdom in Russia to the sugar plantations of the Caribbean to the indigenous slave systems in Africa that supplied both the Arabian and Atlantic trades. The surprise is less that major religions justified these horrors than that, after historically so short a time, they officially do so no longer.

    Segal deserves great credit for putting the history of Islamic slavery on the record in a carefully documented way. Sadly, the significance of the story is not matched by the skill of the telling. ”Islam’s Black Slaves” reads like a string of encyclopedia entries. Names of caliphs, emirs, sultans and slaves flow by in a relentless torrent. None emerge as memorable characters. There is an equally confusing blizzard of place names; Segal mentions the Fezzan several times, for example, before saying it is in southern Libya. We reach Page 133 before encountering a full-fledged eyewitness description that brings a scene alive — a British officer’s vivid picture of an 1819 slave caravan making the long, perilous trek across the Sahara. Segal quotes only a few such accounts, which is surprising because 19th-century Europeans wrote dozens of them. Explorers justified Europe’s great colonial land grab in Africa by a flood of indignant firsthand exposรฉs of the slave trade to the Arab world.

    Segal never bothers with even the most basic storytelling devices, like following a typical African from capture to transport across the desert to sale as a slave. And finally, he quotes barely a word from any of these millions of Islamic slaves. This seems puzzling, because it appears that they were more likely to be literate than their counterparts in the Americas. Did not a single one of all these slave governors, viziers and generals write his memoirs, send a personal letter or talk to a biographer? If not, that in itself calls for explanation. Otherwise it leaves too big a silence at the heart of such an important story.”

  25. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Bushie

    Chuckle…..likle bwoy go an play wid yuh toys nah.

    Yuh mekkin Cawmere real shame wid yuh clueless bovine excreta….dah is GP word an a fittin description.

    Evah time yuh follow dem 2 gallus baits tuh mek sport at John,he duz cut yuh backside wid facts…..um en sore.


  26. What religion and what race do you think Mansa Musha was?

    African Islamic slavery did not treat Africans the same as whites treated Africans

    Rich have Servants in all countries


  27. In poor countries

    Rich have poor people who work for as Servants

    who they treat as humans and become attached to

    and reward them for their loyalty

    so the Servants children have better lives

    ++++

    Whites are now saying that servants are same as slaves

    to dodge their crimes of slavery

    and Vincent is saying he is a slave to whites like his mummy and daddy and grand parents and fore-parents


  28. BU is a scam man

    David has recruited three ignorant wide boys
    posting ignorant and repugnant shit
    to keep this thread going for over a week now

    time to let the swine wallow in their shit


  29. Bushie,
    In the 1200s Genghis Khan and descendants controlled 12 mn Sq Miles (size of Africa) and killed/ dominated 40 million humans of various races and religions. NB 40mn in those days would be the equivalent of 4-500 mn humans in modern times. Western Europe was lucky to avoid the Mongol Hordes as Kublai Khan had to return to Mongolia ,when his father died, in order to lead the Mongolian Govt.

    Genghis had over 1000 children and maybe as many as 2,000!

    Genghis Khan, born Temรผjin, was the Great Khan and founder of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of Northeast Asia. Wikipedia.

    Africa produced some very excellent Generals like Hannibal and many Zulu leaders.

    History has proven that Humans can be cruel and very evil but they dont come in one colour/ race.


  30. History has proven that Humans can be cruel and very evil but they dont come in one colour/ race.
    +++

    Is this dispensation
    (Dispensation of Grace, which began with the New Covenant in Christโ€™s Blood)

    Whites have to pay for their crimes

  31. Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences Observing Blogger

    They cant dodge anything, the most poweful forces are in play.

    They gotta pay for that genocide, those crimes.


  32. The title of the book “Islam’s Black Slaves” begs the question “did Islam also have white slaves?”

    The answer is most definitely yes.

    … and slaves from any conquered people.

    Slavery is a means of controlling conquered peoples … and as you will see, there are benefits to be had.

    There was no bashfulness about slavery.

    The treatment meted out to one particular set of white slaves, the MAmelukes, shows some of the thinking towards their slaves.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamluk

    These particular Europeans were valued for their ability to make war!!

    They were obviously not castrated!!

    These are some of the slaves the Sultan saw to it that married his daughters and sisters.

    That way, he ended up with nephews and grandsons who he hoped would inherit the traits and nieces and grand daughters who would pass on the traits to their descendants,

    So, not all male slaves received castration and genital mutilation.

    So prized was their warlike ability that Napoleon, when he invaded Egypt incorporated them into his Imperial Guard.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamelukes_of_the_Imperial_Guard

    They saw action at the battles of Austerlitz and Jena.


  33. 555 wrote,
    Muslims donโ€™t racially segregate like the white scum
    who divided people into races.

    Aggressive Sunni/ Wahabist Muslims will kill anybody of any Race including other Muslims like Shia etc.

  34. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Chuckle…..Clueless….they just want to bray….they bring nothing factual or provable to the discussion.


  35. 555,
    Whites have to pay for their crimes

    Which whites and who determines?????? NOT U!


  36. Governments and Courts

    or so called Copacetic Governments make recompense from own volition

    scum brane

    ++

    whites say they are not racist so much anymore

    but are stumped like chumps admitting crimes of slavery and it’s legacy trying to deny it’s racism

    fact is they are still racist same as they ever was

    ++

    Your man trump and brexit prove it

    ++

    ยฃ500 billion in UK
    + $1 trillion in USA
    same as QE is copacetic
    to bail banks bankruptcy
    is in line with fees to bail out US and UK moral bankruptcy


  37. Scum Brane says

    “Not all whites are racist”

    but then scum brane says

    “Aggressive Sunni/ Wahabist Muslims will kill anybody of any Race including other Muslims like Shia etc.”

    ++

    Isis and ilk are same terrorists as colonialists

    Not all muslims are terrorists

    1.8 billion muslims would be WWIII if they were all terrorists

    ++

    Isis are not true muslims
    they are mercenaries fighting wars
    like UK and USA are doing
    when creating vacuums of power


  38. Vincent Cunt Faced Haynes

    (3 Cunts)
    (Trinity of cunts)

    they bring nothing factual or provable to the discussion.

    Then Jesus said,

    “He who has eyes to see, let him see, and he who has ears to hear, let him hear.”


  39. Western warmongers kausing much damage

    USA wanted to get their foot in the door in ME

    Iraq 1 GHWB
    Saddam called it mother of all wars

    One Generation later
    Children Of Iraq 1 war

    Iraq II and Afghanistan wars GWB and tony blair planned
    were supposed to last about 3 months

    Cameron wanted his own War

    Libya

    Covert regime changes planned by US UK

    Syria, egypt

    Cameron wanted his own War

    Libya

    27 years later after GHWB
    15 years later after GWB

    Yazidi that Saddam protected were attacked
    Libya Iraq Syria were taken over by Isis as Gadaffi said would happen


  40. 555 de Racist Fool,
    Muslims are the only Religious group coming to Canada and the West making all kind of Demands—Hindus, Sikhs, Rastas, Budhists, etc etc dont come here to Dominate but the Quran explicity DIRECTS Muslims to be very aggresive:
    1) โ€œFight against those who do not obey Allah and do not believe in Allah or the Last Day and do not forbid what has been forbidden by Allah and His messenger even if they are of the People of the Book until they pay the Jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.โ€ 9:29

    This week a woman โ€œof the bookโ€ was accused of destroying said book and promptly beaten to death by those who โ€œobey Allah.โ€ Farkhunda Malikzada was a devout student of Islam and had chastised fellow Muslims for trafficking Viagra and condoms. They got out of it by pretending she was burning the Koran and thatโ€™s when all hell broke loose. Youโ€™dโ€™ve thunk she created a sculpture called Piss Muhammad or made the prophetโ€™s mother out of elephant dung the way they stomped her bloody face into unconsciousness.

    (2) โ€œWhen the sacred months have passed, then kill the Mushrikin wherever you find them. Capture them. Besiege them. Lie in wait for them in each and every ambush but if they repent, and perform the prayers, and give zacat then leave their way free.โ€ 9:5

    In 2002, John Muhammad, the Beltway Sniper, lay โ€œin waitโ€ for various Mushrikin and killed at least 17 of them. Calculating the sacred months looks incredibly complicated and I think itโ€™s different for Muharram, Rajab, Dhul Qadah, and blah blah blah so Iโ€™m not sure if he committed these acts of terror before or after 2002โ€™s sacred months had passed.

    โ€œThe Western world has moved forward since the days of fire and brimstone, but the Middle East is turning backward toward it.โ€

    (3) โ€œThey ask you about fighting during the sacred months. Tell them, fighting therein is a great sin but a greater sin is to prevent mankind from following the way of Allah, to disbelieve in him.โ€ 2:217

    Oh, whoops, turns out the sacred-months thing is bullshit. So basically the instructions can be boiled down to โ€œKill the nonbelievers wherever you find them.โ€ I donโ€™t recall that passage being in the Bible, but if it is, it certainly hasnโ€™t been explicitly stated as a motive for mass murder in a long-ass time. If youโ€™re looking to attach deaths to this caveat, throw in John Muhammadโ€™s sidekick, Lee Boyd Malvo.

    (4) โ€œKill them wherever you find them and drive them out from where they drove you out.

    Persecution is worse than slaughter.โ€ 2:191

    Terrence J. McNeil never committed the terrorist attack he linked to the above verse, but thatโ€™s only because men with guns prevented him. With the words โ€œKill them wherever you find them,โ€ he uploaded the names and addresses of 100 military personnel and was arrested.
    (5) โ€œWhen you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks.โ€ 47:4

    The image of ISIS marching Christians along the beach before beheading them is one of the most disturbing snuff films of all time (although it canโ€™t hold a candle to the guys being burned alive in cages). The Islamic State has committed hundreds of beheadings in the past two years despite it being such a cumbersome and time-consuming way to kill someone. This is likely because firing squads were unheard-of when 47:4 was written.

    (6) โ€œWhen your Lord revealed to the angels, โ€˜Truly I am with you. So, keep firm those who have believed. I will strike terror into the hearts of those who have disbelieved. So, strike them at the necks and cut off their fingers.โ€™โ€ 8:12

    No, this isnโ€™t a Metallica song, itโ€™s what the Oklahoma beheader had on his Facebook page before he went out and cut off Colleen Huffordโ€™s head. Of course, the liberal media claimed Jahโ€™Keem Yisreal was committing workplace violence and that this had nothing to do with the Koran.

    (7) โ€œMen are the protectors and maintainers of women because Allah has made one superior to the other and because they spend to support them from their means. Therefore, righteous women are obedient and they guard in the husbandโ€™s absence what Allah orders them to guard. And, as to those women from whom you fear disobedience, give them a warning, send them to separate beds, and beat them.โ€ 4:34

    Why feminists havenโ€™t devoted 100% of their anger toward Islam boggles the mind. Is forcing women to wear black polyester bags in desert heat and then stoning them to death for being raped not at least a little bit sexist? The list of men letting 4:34 run their marriage is endless so Iโ€™ll throw a dart at it and pick the guy who stomped his wifeโ€™s head in because she joined him in a song (link NSFW).

    (8) โ€œOh you who believe, fight those of the disbelievers who are close to you and let them find harshness in you.โ€ 9:123

    Youโ€™d think Muslim convert Michael Adebolajo and fellow convert Michael Adebowale would have cited โ€œsmite their necksโ€ as the impetus for hacking off Lee Rigbyโ€™s head, but they attached a couple dozen others as responsible, including 9:123. Thatโ€™s the beauty of the Koran. If you skip over one violent passage, there are plenty more that fit the bill. The left is so determined to forgive this violence and pin it on something else, terrorists are forced to handwrite the specific passages and hand them over to the authorities. When they killed Theo van Gogh, they were forced to impale their note to his body with a rapier. In that sense, liberals are helping to fight the terrorists by annoying the shit out of them.
    (9) โ€œMuhammad is the apostle of Allah. Those who follow Him are merciful to one another but harsh to the disbeliever.โ€ 48:29

    When Westerners convert to Islam they are often seen as enlightened. In fact, if you truly understand multiculturalism and tolerance youโ€™ll become a Muslim and join ISIS the way Swedenโ€™s Multicultural Center Expert Mike Skrรฅmo, a.k.a. Abo Ibrahim Al Swedi, did.

    However, when Muslims convert to Christianity, โ€œthose who follow Himโ€ quickly cease to be โ€œmercifulโ€ and get real โ€œharshโ€ real fast. This summer, Pakistani bride Nadia Masihโ€™s conversion to Christianity was met with a bullet from her family and a dead Christian husband who had also been tortured by them.

    (10) โ€œThey wish that you would reject faith as they have rejected faith unless that you would all be equal. So, donโ€™t take protectors from them unless they emigrate in the way of Allah but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them.โ€ 4:89

    The story weโ€™re getting from the Syrian-refugee sympathizers is itโ€™s just a few lost souls striving for a better life. They wonโ€™t come here and rape en masse and theyโ€™re not here to spread the caliphate. Theyโ€™re here to help. This is a very cute version of events, and itโ€™s willfully naive. Democrats say weโ€™re fearmongering and that statistically it is virtually impossible for me personally to be the victim of a terrorist attack. Though it is true that I will never be raped in Sweden, I still donโ€™t want that to happen to anyone else. Call me a feminazi if you must. Few of the Syrian refugees are Syrian and few are in Europe to assimilate. They are there because the Koran explicitly states that Muslims must spread Islam across the world. If any of these refugees change their mind and feel like coming back, 4:89 makes it very clear what must be done.

    Our foreign policy is likely a factor in Muslim rage, but theyโ€™ve been behaving like this off and on for centuries. Inbreeding doesnโ€™t help things, but the one constant we have with all this Muslim violence is a manifesto explaining exactly what to do (Iโ€™m not even including all the Koran offshoots that inspired other acts of violence). You can have all the strange bedfellows you want, but there is one in particular who canโ€™t wait to strangle you in your sleep. Wake up or die.

    WW3, may very well be against Radical Muslims, hope not for their sake, as Russia/ USA have nearly all the major weapons to obliterate their backsides. The Chinese already beat their ass in Western China, so wake up!

    Advice to Muslims REFORM the religion. Be very careful how they become aggressive against the West.


  41. This is why Westerner Governments are DUMBASSES for taking in so many Muslims! Europe will lose more lives when forced to retaliate against these Jokers but that time is fast approaching. Better sooner than later—- so bring it on crazies!


  42. Sodamn Insane’ s Bathist Sunni Party 22%, dominated the 60% Shias who live in Iraq for approx 50 yrs. The Shias WANTED the US to help rid them of Sodamn, as far back as before 1989, BUT they wanted the US to leave after the war asap so they could bust the weakened Sunnis hind qtrs.

    Who was Pres when Libya, Egypt etc were screwed? ——-Hannibal?


  43. Money Brain

    quoting the Quran must be plagiarised straight from racist white trash sites

    like Infowars, Breitbart etc

    +++

    If I wanted to know about Islam

    I would not take my information from white trash like scum brane

    +++

    scum brane did not comment on the functional definition of racism link provided yesterday

    this is the text for him to comment on today

    Functional Definition of RACISM = WHITE SUPREMACY = APARTHEID

    As a black behavioral scientist and practicing psychiatrist, my own functional definition of Racism (White Supremacy) is as follows:
    “Racism (White Supremacy) is the local and global power system and dynamic, structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white, whether consciously or subconsciously determined, which consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labor, law, politics, religion, sex and war), for the ultimate purpose of white genetic survival and to prevent white genetic annihilation on planet Earth – a planet upon which the vast majority of people are classified as nonwhite (black, brown, red and yellow) by white skinned people, and all of the nonwhite people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic recessive white skin people”.

    Francis Cress Welsing MD

    The system of Racism (White Supremacy) utililizes deceit and violence (inclusive of chemical warfare, biological warfare and psychological warfare), indeed Any Means Necessary, to achieve its ultimate goal objective of white genetic survival and to prevent white genetic annihilation on planet Earth.
    In the existing system of Racism (White Supremacy) when the term is undefined and poorly understood there is general confusion and chaos on the part of the victims of that system (local, national and global). It then becomes impossible for the victims of racism (White Supremacy) to effectively counter the global system of Racism (White Supremacy).

    The African enslavement, imperialism, cololnialism, neo-colonialism, fascism, etc., are all dimensions and aspects of Racism (White Supremacy).


  44. That Psychiatrist is a joker and should send back his mail in degree taken through Dogshyte U. Musseee had the exact same schooling as U!


  45. 555,
    U do realise that U have confessed that U dont know one shyte about the Quran.

    I have at least one copy of the Book in my possession given to me by Muslims.


  46. I have access to a copy given to my dad by a Saudi Prince patient of his

    did you read your copy if the Quron and make your own notes and use your own mind to understand

    or did you read white boy sites where alt-right feel hard again

    =

    Rhetorical Question as I know the answer is the latter


  47. Money Brane

    Her definition of racism describes you down to a tee

    if the cap fits let them wear it


  48. Bibliomnacy is the practice of seeking spiritual insight by selecting a random passage from a Holy Book. It is a form of Stichomancy, which involves selecting a random passage from a random book of any nature. Bibliomancy and Stichomancy have been popular methods of divination for at least 3000 years, when the I Ching was first used to divine the future.


  49. Putting Stichomancy to practise
    selecting random passage from a random book

    Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

    [Map page 188)

    Map 3 Earth in AD 1450. The named locations within the Afro-Asian World were places visited by the fourteenth-century Muslim traveller Ibn Battuta. A native of Tangier in Morocco, Ibn Battuta visited Timbuktu, Zanzibar, Southern Russia, Central Asia, India, China and Indonesia. His travels illustrate the unity of Afro-Asia on the ever of the Modern Era.

    ++

    We still talk a lot about ‘authentic’ cultures, but if by ‘authentic’ we mean something that developed independently, and that consists of ancient local traditions free of external influences, then there are no authentic cultures left on earth. Over the last few centuries, all cultures were changed almost beyond recognition by a flood of global influences.

    One of the most interesting examples of this globalisation is ‘ethnic cuisine’. In an Italian restaurant we expect to find spaghetti in tomato sauce; in Polish and Irish restaurant lots of potatoes; in an Argentinian restaurant we can chose between dozens of kinds of beefsteaks; In an Indian restaurant hot chillies are incorporated into just about everything, and the highlight at any Swiss cafe is thick hot chocolate under an alp of whipped cream. But none of these foods is native to those nations. ….


  50. Who’s spirit is Money Brane quoting like an alt-right white trash parrot

    google his words that he plagiarised like a mo fo

    http://takimag.com/article/10_violent_koran_verses_and_the_terror_they_spawned_gavin_mcinnes#axzz4nmm8YHtg

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