In the essay “The Souls of White Folk” (1920), written two years after the end of the First World War, W.E.B. Du Bois saw as probable a second world war and the fight to end White rule in Africa and Asia (of which the Vietnam War was part):
The World War was primarily the jealous and avaricious struggle for the largest share in exploiting darker races. As such it is and must be but the prelude to the armed and indignant protest of these despised and raped peoples. … Is, then, this war the end of wars? Can it be the end, so long as sits enthroned, even in the souls of those who cry peace, the despising and robbing of darker peoples? If Europe hugs this delusion, then this is not the end of world war, – it is but the beginning!
That in turn came from his understanding of White racism and imperialism and how the world war was its natural consequence:
It is plain to modern white civilization that the subjection of the white working classes cannot much longer be maintained. … But there is a loophole. There is a chance for exploitation on an immense scale for inordinate profit, not simply to the very rich, but to the middle class and to the laborers. This chance lies in the exploitation of darker peoples. …
There must come the necessary despisings and hatreds of these savage half-men, this unclean canaille of the world – these dogs of men. All through the world this gospel is preaching. It has its literature, it has its secret propaganda and above all – it pays!
There’s the rub, – it pays. Rubber, ivory, and palm-oil; tea, coffee, and cocoa; bananas, oranges, and other fruit; cotton, gold, and copper …
Small wonder, then, that in the practical world of things-that-be there is jealousy and strife for the possession of the labor of dark millions …
That hatred was turned inward. That strife took place in Europe. Whites were shocked, Blacks were not:
we darker men said: This is not Europe gone mad; this is not aberration nor insanity; this is Europe; this seeming Terrible is the real soul of white culture…
After all, darker men had seen it before: 12 million – almost as many as in the world war – had died under Belgian rule of the Congo. A fact the comfortably Whitewashed chose not to see:
Yet the fields of Belgium laughed, the cities were gay, art and science flourished; the groans that helped to nourish this civilization fell on deaf ears …
The US was no better:
For two or more centuries America has marched proudly in the van of human hatred, – making bonfires of human flesh and laughing at them hideously, and making the insulting of millions more than a matter of dislike, – rather a great religion …
Absolutely without excuse she established a caste system, rushed into preparation for war, and conquered tropical colonies. She stands today shoulder to shoulder with Europe in Europe’s worst sin against civilization.
See also:
- This post goes well with:
- Magical Progress
- Basically Good
- some atrocities Du Bois probably had in mind:
- 1637: Mystic massacre
- 1876+: The Scramble for Africa
- 1890: An Open Letter to King Leopold II
- 1899+: Philippine-American War
- 1904+: The Herero and Nama genocide
- 1906: Leonard Wood
- White mindset, 1890-1924:
- “It was the times!”
- List of posts by body count
“After all, darker men had seen it before: 12 million – almost as many as in the world war – had died under Belgian rule of the Congo. A fact the comfortably whitewashed chose not to see:”
“The US was no better:
For two or more centuries America has marched proudly in the van of human hatred, – making bonfires of human flesh and laughing at them hideously, and making the insulting of millions more than a matter of dislike, – rather a great religion …”
“Absolutely without excuse she established a caste system, rushed into preparation for war, and conquered tropical colonies. She stands today shoulder to shoulder with Europe in Europe’s worst sin against civilization.”
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“Kiwi, I bet the overwhelming majority of black Americans are adverse to private gun ownership and gun violence.”
And I’d bet that the above commenter (or mole) believes that Black Americans should just lay down and let white-supremacy annihilate them from the face of the globe.
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That’s interesting it puts balfour in a larger context for me.
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>After all, darker men had seen it before: 12 million – almost as many as in the world war – had died under Belgian rule of the Congo. A fact the comfortably whitewashed chose not to see:<
The whole Africa had a population of likely around about 110-120 millions back then. 12 millions death toll would require Congo to either have impossibly high share of Africa population (it has under 10% now), or for the death toll to completely depopulate the area. I would think the number is likely to be 2 or 3 millions. It was horrible, but i get so annoyed by inflating numbers as if it is needed for us to judge it harshly.
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[…] "In the essay “The Souls of White Folk” (1920), written two years after the end of the First World War, W.E.B. Du Bois saw as probable a second world war and the fight to end white rule in Africa and Asia (of which the Vietnam War was part):"- CLICK THROUGH FOR MORE – […]
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Moreover, significant if not major thin about German imperialism was exploiting Eastern Europe and its Slavic inhabitans, which is completely overlooked here. This was even moreso in WW II, but it also applies to WW I (Brest Litovsk, for crying out loud)
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There’s something more to this too, like, to me, there has to have been something lurking in the background. I wonder also, how europeans during the late 1800s were told about colonial adventurism in the papers, it was probably just that, some type of nationalistic pride propaganda.
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For those interested: the full tekst of the essay (and more) can be found here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15210/15210-h/15210-h.htm#Chapter_II
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YES! Finally a post about WEB DuBois. Hope we will see a few more of them.
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@Kiwi,
Indeed. Talking about taking things out of context.
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Eh, Kiwi, the WWI started when the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy (without colonies) declared war against Serbia (without colonies).
Austria-Hungary did so because it was backed by Germany (few colonies, meant as loose change for future peace negotiations) while Serbia was undeterred, because it was backed by Russia (which colonized Siberia, and had some outposts in China).
In dhort, I think you overestimate the importance of the colonies.
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@Kiwi,
I noticed a few things do not show up clearly on the map, e.g.,
* The European colonies of Hong Kong and Macau
* The European concessions in cities like Guangzhou and Shanghai and the Japanese controlled areas of China, esp. in Manchuria
* Liberia was not shaded in, but actually still a puppet of the US at that time.
* more stuff too if I look for it.
I think the colonialism on the map was even worse than depicted, but it does give us an easy snapshot to look at.
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@kiwi i think that is an interesting and valid point of view.
Damn, this is really bugging me like i’m on to something here, it’s just out of reach though.
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I have read and learned about that beast King Leopold of Belgium and how he murdered all those African people in the Congo making them harvest the rubber and cutting off their body parts. Today the Belgium people have statues of him and just sweep under the rug his atrocities. So disgusting.
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>While I agree that 12 million is way too high a death toll, I don’t think 2-3 million is right, either. The Belgian Congo’s population was counted to be somewhere over 8 million after the mass killings of the Congo Free State. It was found consistently from missionaries and other colonial workers throughout the colony that the population had shrunken by half from the beginning to the end of Leopold’s rule there. This would mean more or less 8 million died as a result of Belgian colonialism.<
8 million? That is what i expected, actually. See, my 2-3 million was a guess based on how bloody other genocides were, and 20-30% is something i would expect from 20 years of exceedingly bloody exploitation, not over 50%, which never happened except in cases of minorities being targeted for extermination.
People personal opinions notoriously inaccurate. In early XVIII century, people in Europe were worried about depopulation at the same time population started to grow really fast, we just arent equipped to judge such things without scientific apparatus.
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@ Mary Burell
Leopolds private ownership of the Congo created outrage in Europe even then. If you think about what atrocities where considered the nomality of colonial rule, that says something about that guy.
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I used 12 million because that is what Du Bois used in the essay. Apparently it was one of the estimates of the time. The figure I mostly hear is 10 million. His point is that no one should have been shocked at the carnage of the First World War. White civilization was built on such carnage, the Congo being merely an example. The only difference was that now White people were getting killed in huge numbers.
Because of racism, Whites could not see the true nature of their “civilization”: their racist lens so dehumanized others that their slaughter barely registered; it so twisted the history books that Whites thought they were far more wonderful and moral than they were.
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@ Kiwi
Good summary.
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But no one was shocked at WW I because of wholesale slaughter. That was WW II, and there is good argument that the shock here was disingenous because Nazis applied extreme racism to Europeans (even if they almost exclusively targetted eastern Europeans, and that includes Jews who lived mostly there). Still, i am not exactly outraged and this lack of fairness, because it ultimately ended in cutting the ground from this ideology, even if the land i live on paid for it in blood.
However, world war one was shocking because of different things. It was not the bloodbath, that happened before, including Europe. It was the industrial scale of that slaughter that shocked people.
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@Mary Burell
I was surprised that Belgians did not get rid of statue(s) of Leopold. (not much, though, after reading hatred of the west by ziegler) Googled it, and found something interesting:
The inscription accompanying the Congolese group mentions The gratitude of the Congolese to Leopold II for having liberated them from slavery under the Arabs. In 2004, an activist group cut off the hand of the leftmost Congolese bronze figure, in protest against the atrocities committed in the Congo. The city council decided to keep the statue in its new form, without the hand
While i would prefer the statue to be demolished, i find its current form sort of karmic.
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Correction, the tyrant Leopold II murdered 15 million persons not 12 million and its believed by some that Du Bois helped destroy Black champion Marcus Garvey.
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“The World War was primarily the jealous and avaricious struggle for the largest share in exploiting darker races. As such it is and must be but the prelude to the armed and indignant protest of these despised and raped peoples. … Is, then, this war the end of wars? Can it be the end, so long as sits enthroned, even in the souls of those who cry peace, the despising and robbing of darker peoples? If Europe hugs this delusion, then this is not the end of world war, – it is but the beginning!” 20-20 hindsight on his part, during the war he was busy convincing blacks that joining the slaughter was a great way to prove their patriotism. He even campaigned to be made a captain or colonel.
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King Leopold II, the kleptocrat’s kleptocrat, a thug who put to shame many a gangster, but he is never called that since that label is reserved for non-Europeans.
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Finally after all this time a rational and consistent explanation for ww1 an the utter danger of being withe-albinic brainwashed ,when we they start fighting and killing ,if ya white-albinic indoctrinated you will not understand why.
This is why I love this blog ,this anit the first time and it probably won’t be the last post or comment on a post the provides insight and explanation of historical events
Trolls I mean spite people eat your,oh yeah you don’t have hearts ….wallow in envy and hate yet again…..HA.HAHA…
by the way I just wasn,t interested in William Edward Burghardt Du Bois but Now I am and its very interesting that “The Souls of black Folk” 1903 is listed as one his works on Wikipedia but no mention of this essay , I think its because most of the editors of Wikipedia are white and therefore racist.
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I guess the main vector i was on last night was how, wow, you know, someone commented this is the 2nd industrial revolution, and look at that, nations geared up to produce weapons on an industrial scale, how bout that. and then you kind of tie in this is certainly when the military forces of the world would have needed to provide mobility to their forces and certainly were adopting the internal combustion engine wholesale, hmmm….
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“we darker men said: This is not Europe gone mad; this is not aberration nor insanity; this is Europe; this seeming Terrible is the real soul of white culture…”
IMO, a future Great War will happen too. Really, we have been living in a perpetual state of war. Only a few decades separated WWI from WWII and the latter segued seamlessly into the Cold War as symbolized by the division of Germany. The Cold War involved a number of proxy wars and a nuclear arms race leading to the threat of Mutually Assured Destruction. About a decade after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, 9/11 and the “War on Terror” provided the context for American military campaigns in Northern Africa and Eurasia while the expansion of the EU and NATO is bumping more and more directly into Russia as desired. The picture that emerges is not one of war and peace but a state of continual warfare of varying intensity just as a hurricane has sustained winds and higher gusts. The economic and demographic toll of outright war on the scale possible with 20-21st century weapons makes it impossible to sustain for more than a few years. So there is a natural waxing and waning of hostilities not because there has been an abiding peaceful settlement that is then shattered but because the combatants need time to recuperate.
The white vision of peace is the state in which nobody exists that can act outside of their control. Therefore subjugation of others (absolute power over them) equals peace. It is the peace of conquest when nobody is left who can challenge you so you can do anything and get away with it. A state of peace, one based on morals, in which the parties can act in their own interest but opt not to encroach on the rights of the other is not the goal. That would require a completely different cultural logos: harmony-seeking instead of power-seeking; xenophillic instead of xenophobic. (By the way, cultures with the former tendencies will be readily devoured by the latter; their openness being their downfall.) As long people exist who can put up resistance in their own self-interest (aka ‘a threat’) wars will be started by whites to try to eliminate them. Those wars will be fought until we arrive at a state of ‘peace’. War is for peace. Peace, which traditionally implied coexistence of equals, is the potential for war. With this mindset many ‘peace negotiations’ are disingenuous and can be exposed as invitations to “go straight to subjugation, do not pass resistance do not collect $200”. I’m talking here about the cultural viewpoint as revealed by historical behavior not about what a particular person might think. In the American South the white ‘freedom riders’ were beaten more severely than the black ones because they were acting contrary to cultural norms.
So here we have a culture with a particular spiritual characteristic. It is amoral by nature. AMORAL as opposed to IMMORAL.
[dictionaries]
AMORAL: lacking a moral sense; unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something.
IMMORAL: violating moral principles; not conforming to the patterns of conduct usually accepted or established as consistent with principles of personal and social ethics.
There is no moral code limiting the behavior of whites towards ‘others’. They weren’t violating anything because there was no standard in place! They were traveling the word with the clear intention to ‘claim’ whatever they found. Christianity was used as a tool to justify their actions not to bound them. Pagan comes from pagus which relates to the countryside or ‘sticks’. Is a relation between conversion of ‘pagans’ and imperial expansion subtly suggested? Popes gave away entire continents based on the arrogant presumption that it was their god-given prerogative! That same Christianity was then used to shackle resistance of the subjugated. So whenever people say their actions weren’t inevitable I ask to see the alternate history where their behavior was different. It is a perfect predatory culture. Can predators feel sorry for their prey? No. Rationality over emotion. Can predators stay put? No. Expansionism over parochialism. Predators need to identify prey: discriminatory over inclusionary. Predators need tooth and claw: militiaristic over pacifistic. Today, the cultural alignment is also supported ideologically by the widely accepted Darwinistic scientism. From its standpoint white behavior is ‘right’ in the sense that amorality is established as the morailty. Anything goes in pursuit of power and dominance. So with the cultural parameters ‘chosen’ as they have been how could the collective behavior possibly contradict that?
I promised myself to post less about this but I wanted to make a case similar to DuBois here. All of the things that ‘non-whites’ experience as negative about whites, as a group, come from the very core of the culture rather than the periphery. It is what they are about not a freak or unusual reaction to circumstances. This is why they have self-destructed spectacularly multiple times in the last century even after having colonized the rest of the world. The same characteristics that supported their mobilization against everyone else also operated against each other. And because they had all, by necessity, militarized extensively during the colonial era the wars were particularly fierce. The million dollar question is whether they can hold it together forevermore in the nuclear age. How likely is that? The belly rumbles. The undergrowth rustles as ominous moves are made. Maybe afterwards people will look back on the time period from The Great War onward as a punctuated process of collapse like a pendulum shortening its period as it settles to stillness. It would be like history repeating itself because the UN is the League of Nations’ analogue. If there’s another major war it will die in the same way as its predecessor having failed at its purported mission. Just as the weapons upgraded from WW1 to WW2 they are at yet another level of destructiveness today. Whites fought for world domination but, ultimately, they don’t know what to do with it except fight each other over it. It’s like the dog that chases the car but doesn’t know what to do if it is caught. This is because the spiritual vacuum that drove the culture’s ambition in the first place leaves it with a sense of emptiness if it ‘arrives’. It is about the process not the prize; the taste not the digestion. What else is there to eat?
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This is a good article. Asians are better off than the black Diaspora because they practice group economics and are unified. China has risen and defeated European colonization and exploitation. The only way blacks can do so, is if we create and get in control, pool our money together and start our own business. Much like Europeans did and much like asians are doing.
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It would be a refreshing social experiment to watch some society on this morbid ball of hell we inhabit break free of the socioeconomic infrastructure ie classist system created by the g8 countries and the imf, world bank, etc, but it seemes every government is content with their picket fences that is to say what i interpret as ‘rentier state’ writ large. What im saying is that governments, even fairly well developed and resource rich eg nigeria for one has too many multinational and other ‘modern’ colonial external influences and the pro forma (as delineated by the economic forces of the g8 etc) class system in that country will not relinquish its noblesse oblige willingly, kinda chickens come home to roost in an ironic ans tragic sense if you’re with me on that one. And now china is surely in on that game.
Also sounds familiar, like something else… hmmm…
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It still drives me up the wall that that culture still flourishes today, and that said culture uses it’s propaganda tool to project their barbarity onto POC, especially black folks in order to maintain their fake saintly image.
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Well as someone pointed out on the orwell thread the plebiscite (white) is being used as a tool to further the global elite, and this is not to absolve a common racist white man’s duty to change, but it kind of gives a rationale to white skin privilege, idk all this stuff is bouncing around in my head hopefully it will settle down some and i can express myself more clearly at some point
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@Origin
“The white vision of peace is the state in which nobody exists that can act outside of their control….”
Everything you said in the comment you posted is so true. Thank you.
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“Asians are better off than the black Diaspora because they practice group economics and are unified.”
There are broken records on both sides and “castors” comment is standard left,black national,etc
From my actual observation as opposed being told asian “success” follows the same rule as everyone and everywhere else its how albinic your groups phenotype is ,translate the lesser your epdermal melenin the greater your socioeconomic status.
I see chinese,koreans and japense all who are one thin shade darker(more melenin) than europeans sorta off white ,not yellow ,not beige and damn sure not brown.
And as for our path to success ,the same a 1000 years ago as today ,its miltary stupid..what of usa have 10 times the miltary capbility of the entire world do we want to ignore.
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the thing about origins comment is the toying with biological terms and ecology.
are we to assume the “whites” and only whites prey on other members of their own species.
Whites are just black people who migrated north and due to the environment loss some pigmentation and decided to make that the primary focus of thier identity and thus everyone elses.
We are all vicious animals doomed to die and few if any will ever know why.
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Origin said:
[…] The white vision of peace is the state in which nobody exists that can act outside of their control. Therefore subjugation of others (absolute power over them) equals peace. It is the peace of conquest when nobody is left who can challenge you so you can do anything and get away with it. […]
Absolutely. Orwell’s “boot stamping on a human face forever”.
Bearing in mind Mbeti’s objection, one could use “privileged” or “powerful” or “oligarch” or other words in place of “white”, but as, in our world, they currently overwhelmingly equal the same thing I think it’s valid to say “white”.
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@Jeff Elberfeld:
Thanks for the link to the full Du Bois work. I’ve stuck it in my Kindle queue.
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@Mbeti,
I will not try to patronize your ideas, just giving some food for thought.
OK, Yes, in the US where people are obsessed with skin colour, you will see some of this phenomenon in very general terms.
The fact that whites might be more willing to let East Asians go to school with them, live next door to them, etc. might have something to do with skin colour. They also might be willing to hire one for certain jobs (*certain* jobs, that is), and they are less upset if one of their sons marry one (but they may still go ballistic if their daughters do). They may be willing to be a patient of an Asian doctor compared to a black person, to some extent. Whites may be more willing to let an East Asian descended person (as opposed to a black person) do their hair or other beauty treatments, to massage them, or otherwise have contact with their body.
But this in no way can explain the full phenomenon.
Many doctors are of Indian origin and are decidedly brown; some are West African immigrants and some (perhaps not all) white people will submit to be treated by them.
I don’t think whites have a special preference regarding who cooks for them.
Whites (and blacks too) will often prefer to hire whites as lawyers rather than blacks and especially over Asians. Asian Lawyers tend to be very back office.
In some cases blacks will get special preferential treatment over Asians. Asian Americans still have no chance of becoming President or even a university basketball coach position.
But I want to look at one industry in particular: the African American Hair Care and Beauty Product industry. The industry was started by black Americans and a few blacks got very rich over it. It is a 1.5 bn USD industry and black Americans spend a larger portion of their income on beauty supplies than whites or Asians. But now, the industry is over 80% dominated by Korean Americans, by people who don’t even use the products. Are we to believe that it is because they tend to have very fair complexions?
Whites are not even the customers so are not the ones making the consumer decision.
(You can do a simple internet search and find hundreds of articles and videos discussing this topic).
It is possible. There is some evidence that some blacks view Asian Americans as surrogate whites and prefer to shop at their stores for that reason. But this is likely not the main reason or sufficient explanation why this happens.
We can find some parallels with other businesses dominated by “3rd race” people in black neighborhoods for the past 140 years, e.g.,
– a business that whites are not interested in
– blacks have trouble getting capital and credit, esp. for businesses in black neighborhoods or which serve exclusively blacks.
– ethnic and kinship ties of the “3rd race” people — which offers access to credit, capital, training and distribution networks OUTSIDE of the mainstream white system.
– lack of ethnic and kinship ties to their customers
But this is a product that blacks should be MUCH more familiar with than Koreans.
Korean Americans already operated business in black neighborhoods (e.g., groceries, convenience stores, liquor stores, check cashing / money order, etc.). It was not a major step to expand into Hair Care and Beauty supply products as they were already operating businesses in the neighborhoods. Also, they could source more and more products from Korea or other Asian locations. The Beauty supply industry is already very big in Korea, and it took only some modification to start manufacturing products for African Americans and exporting them to the USA.
Now you go to the annual national trade fair conventions in the US for Black Beauty supplies, and the manufacturers and factory representatives, suppliers and retailers are overwhelmingly Korean and Korean American.
Blacks admit that they often prefer to patronize the Asian owned stores rather than the black owned stores.
If you look at the articles and what black people say about it, they will mention stuff like access to capital, business training and experience, relationships to the distribution networks, etc. These are exactly the things that the Korean American community supplies to these merchants that is not being adequately supplied by black American communities.
BOBSA (Black Owned Beauty Supply Association) was formed specifically to address this problem. But so far, they have not formulated any effective strategies to tackle it.
I support the formation of “Black Owned (fill in the industry) Associations” to deal with this and solve the problems. Here is one group doing that
(http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2014/05/black-entrepreneurs-hope-end-dominance-asian-beauty-supply-store-owners-can/)
I have no intention to sound paternalistic, but we need to see more of these kinds of associations forming and addressing the problems of black entrepreneurs. Not all of it can be explained by the degree of melanin in one’s skin.
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Origin was getting at something , that I can agree with , when Origin mentions Christianity , and how it is used as a rational and template to go conquer other people , and make them slaves…I think , rather than culturaly inherant to whites , it reflects in how they view other peoples cultures , as inferior , and , tie in phenotype differances , and that deems those people as worthy of slavery…
If you see it in that context , it covers how Western white racism and bigotry works across the board , from against black people of African descendance , in all its mixtures, to Asian people , native American , anti semetic , anti India racism …it covers the various degrees , from outright bigot , to liberal white , who claims value for civil rights but black culture rubs against their sensibilities , so they make disparaging remarks against something cultural , but accept blacks who fit into a white cultural parameter…
So this cultural racism , ignorance , arrogance , mixed with phenotype judgements and religion as the original template , is what is the crux of the white Western racist and bigoted mentalities….but , it demands dealing with each cultural racism and cultural bigotry , on its own terms…crossing and mixing them up , only will highlight the cultural fault lines of the non white western cultures , ethnicities and religions
I dont share Origins gloomy outlook , because , instead of culturaly inherant , I think its how the white West views other cultures, and , therefor , can be educated…but not anything or any way you see in Western education now…those are some of the walls that have to be torn down first , Western notions of what education and civilisation are
I find notions of Du Bois , and souls of white people and their wars , useful when confronting white racists who think the white race is superior ,and more civilized , or Fox news mentalities, but falls short in an honest look at humanity, which Mbhetti kind of hints at , although he might change that if he thinks Im agreeing with him
Unfortunatly , on this blog , threads that blow the whistle on bringing up the Arab slave trade , and try to make the multi millions dying under Mao a white derailment , makes looking at the ugliness of all humanity , nebulous at the least…
Where you could say Marxism is western thought , and , this communist anarchist ideology that works great on paper but fails miserably on the ground , only defines the problem with western thought in the first place , trying to force circles into square holes, the fact multi multi millions died from Marxist ideology from China , Cambodia (just in the news , two Khemer Rouge leaders convicted of killing several million) , North Korea , shows that mass cruelty is capable in any human hands…and these werent wars, they were political eliminations….that happened in a small period of time , not long ago
Which also shows , along with Islamic fundimentalist countries , that there are situations outside Western spectrum , that demand control , and those people attempting to go outside that control , will be dealt with
Im all for noting the flaws and ignorance of other cultures, in the West and in Western thought , which is some of the foundation to white racism , but , I dont agree its some trait only found in white people…
And , four hundred years is a short time , in humanity, the dominance of white culture and the West, will not be permanente
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now that we’re actively bombing iraq again due to isis so it is said and that is attacking the multinational religious statist organization that is the ‘foil’ i guess? to zionism and extremism whether it’s a right wing christian is ugly as best and you know what they say about that
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I think the industrial war that was the WW1 and even more the WW2 were results of capitalism gone haywire. The economics dictated much. Saying that the white “soul” or something like that was the reason behind those wars is pretty juvenile and simplistic. Biological explanations are racist per sé. Cultural explanations could be better, perhaps, but if we look at the economics, the competition within the capitalistic global economy of that time, it becomes very clear. After all, colonialism was about the bisnes. Thus, war, even a WW1, was extension of the busines.
If there is any doubt that wars, even on the massive scale, have nothing to do with race, just look at the Obama government which is currently waging wars on Irak, Afganistan, Syria, Ukraine via proxys and financing them, and which is driving all of us towards the next WW with its policies towards capitalist Russia.
These actions, all of them, come from the fact that US dollar and US lead global economical system (including World Bank & IMF & EU) is about to be sided by the global economic system of the BRICS. Russia and China have declared that they will drop US dollar as a anchor currency and the BRICS countries are following the suit. USA is losing its hegemony and currency.
The first black president of USA wishes to stop that and the only weapon in his arsenal is war. That is what they are gearing up in Europe as we speak. And this is the policy of the Obama administration.
So the question is: is Obama leading his foreign policy and if he is, then what role the race plays in this development? Does it matter that the president of USA, who is preparing for an all out war in Europe in order to save the US dollar and hegemony, is black? Is he dictating the policy or is he just a patsy of some evil white men?
Thus, is the race defining factor, or something else? Barack Obama is, after all, black american man and he is right now potentially on the path to the next WW.
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Du Bois was a fraud freedom fighter who worked secretly within the Freemason society of the Boule to bring down both Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey. If one studies the purpose and meaning behind all secret societies such as the Boule it will be discovered that they exist for guarding a civilization against encroachment and promoting its attributes. In other words, secret societies are shadow governments, Du Bois was a member of the Boule aka Omega Phi Psi, they salute Greeks, Europeans, Romans as the founders of civilization. All the stolen treasures, art, inventions, knowledge and sciences birthed in Africa are perpetrated by Greeks as their own. Du Bois openly admited that the Boule was constructed soley upon the purpose of stopping Marcus Garvey from attracting the Black professional towards Pan-Africanism. Boule men worked for the U.S Military Intelligence who were cautious of Black uprising within America, men like Du Bois were selected as leaders of the African American community,— they were given contacts, financial support, intell, and the greenlight to conduct counterintelligence operations against Grassroots and Black Nationalist leaders and groups.
The global elites like Rockefeller, Dupoint, Queen of England, the Vatican, Knights Templar, the Bohemians, all have controlling interest within Africa. The Boule aka Omega Phi Psi, Prince Hall Masons, the other 7 houses of Black Greeks, plus the Reformed Ogboni Society, all work in conjunction to guard European civilization and promote its attributes. They are Freemasons, traitors of Africa, recruited by European secret societies, trained and educated in being knights of Europe. Yes there is a hidden global network of Africans working against African civilization. The war we are fighting is not the West v.s Islam but European civilization vs African civilization. And the guardian of each are secret societies, Africa has its own secret societies who are loyal to traditional African leadership only diaspora is lacking such.
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The Original African Civilization vs the Original European Civilization
Cultural unity of African peoples as part of a southern cradle
Diop attempted to demonstrate that the African peoples shared certain commonalities, including language roots and other cultural elements like regicide, circumcision, totems, etc. These he held, formed part of a tapestry that laid the basis for African cultural unity, that could assist in throwing off colonialism. His cultural theory attempted to show that Egypt was part of the African environment as opposed to incorporating it into Mediterranean or Middle Eastern venues.
These concepts are laid out in Diop’s “TOWARDS THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE: ESSAYS IN CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT, 1946-1960,”:[35] and “The Cultural Unity of Black Africa: The Domains of Patriarchy and of Matriarchy in Classical Antiquity,”[36] These concepts can be summarized as follows:
Southern Cradle-Egyptian Model:
1. Abundance of vital resources.
2. Sedentary-agricultural.
3. Gentle, idealistic, peaceful nature with a spirit of justice.
4. Matriarchal family.
5. Emancipation of women in domestic life.
6. Territorial state.
7. Xenophilia.
8. Cosmopolitanism.
9. Social collectivism.
10. Material solidarity – alleviating moral or material misery
11. Idea of peace, justice, goodness and optimism.
12. Literature emphasizes novel tales, fables and comedy.
13. Heterosexuality.
Northern Cradle-Greek Model:
1. Bareness of resources.
2. Nomadic-hunting (piracy)
3. Ferocious, warlike nature with spirit of survival.
4. Patriarchal family.
5. Debasement/enslavement of women.
6. City state (fort)
7. Xenophobia.
8. Parochialism.
9. Individualism.
10. Moral solitude.
11. Disgust for existence, pessimism.
12. Literature favors tragedy.
13. Homosexuality.
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[…] about Barack Obama’s life in Indonesia. Also, a fun activity to try: figure out if you prefer W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, or Ida B. Wells‘ […]
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When I really stop and think about it, I believe that DuBois meant well for his people. But I seldom seen or heard of him hanging out with any of his people. Maybe he did in college. I think that it was deeply hurtful for him to had attempted to belittle his counterparts, Marcus Gar v ey, and Booker T. Washington in public. These men were the true examples in their era for our people…not DuBois. These men did not strive to kiss up to white people. Carter G. Woodson’s book, The Miseducation of the Negro, hit home in describing the negro who used his college education for his own self agrandisement to please white folks, and to help keep his own people down in his attempt to gain massa’s good graces. This, in my opinion was DuBois. Woodson was far ahead of his time!!!
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Some may interpret my views on DuBois, and his relationship to men such as Garvey, Booker T. Washington, and Woodson as bigotry against whites. However, truthfully, I don’t hate anybody. But I would be a damned fool if I didn’t hate what whites have done to our people historically, and are continuing to do the same even down to the present. I would consider myself a traitor and a fool to turn a blind eye to what I am witnessing right before my face. White supremacist have already begun to start a new civil war as I type these words at Charlottesville, Va. Who is the real bigot here? I’m not the one carrying around tiki torches carrying the Confederate flag, bearing Nazi symbols on my apparel, and decrying white power, and the South will rise again.
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I think every culture is violent. Is there really any evidence that 12 million died in the free state? or that so many people even lived in that area? how is it even logistically possible for an individual to kill so many in an such short time with such few troops?
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@ Thinking Mouse
The depravity and reign of terror Leopold unleashed on the Congo is well documented. I suggest you read King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40961621-king-leopold-s-ghost
It is entirely possible for an individual to command forces with modern weaponry to spread enough terror and division to cause the deaths of over 10 million human beings. That number does not include the millions maimed, raped, tortured or enslaved —— all to satisfy the greed of one individual and the Belgian people.
According to the GoodReads review:
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@ Abagond
Why is this comment in your moderation queue?
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