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March 25th 2013

bravenewgirls:

youngblackandvegan:

daniellemertina:

art-emrod:

Mãe preta, 1912 by Peregrina Cultural on Flickr.

this picture makes me so sad :(

this picture makes me angry

A Black Woman Speaks of White Womanhood, White Supremacy and Peace

Excerpt by Beah Richards

It is right that I a woman black
Should speak of white womanhood
My husbands, my fathers, my brothers,
My sons died for it
They said, the white supremacists said
That you were better than me
That your fair brow shall never know
The sweat of slavery
They lied, white womanhood too
Is enslaved, the difference is degree
They brought me here in chains
They brought you here willing slaves to man
You bore him sons …
I bore him sons …
No, not willingly
He purchased you
He raped me
You were afraid to nurse your young
Less fallen breasts offend you master’s sight
And he should flee to firmer love letters
And so …
You passed them … your children
On to me …
Flesh that was your flesh
Blood that was your blood
Drank the sustenance of life, from me
And as I gave suck
I knew I nursed my own child’s enemy
I could have lied …
Told you your child was fed
Until it was dead of hunger
But I could not find the heart
To kill orphaned innocence
For as it fed, it smiled
And burped and gurgled with content
And as for color …
Knew no difference
Yes, in that first while
I kept your sons and daughters alive
But when they grew strong
In blood and bone that was of my milk
You taught them to hate me
You gave then the words mammy … and nigger
So that strength that was of myself
Turned and spat upon me
Despoiled my daughters
And killed my sons!!!

some things are just too hard to forgive…

Posted at 1:27pm and tagged with: slavery, racism, history,.

thefemaletyrant:

bravenewgirls:

youngblackandvegan:

daniellemertina:

art-emrod:

Mãe preta, 1912 by Peregrina Cultural on Flickr.

this picture makes me so sad :(

this picture makes me angry

A Black Woman Speaks of White Womanhood, White Supremacy and Peace
Excerpt by Beah Richards
It is right that I a woman blackShould speak of white womanhoodMy husbands, my fathers, my brothers, My sons died for itThey said, the white supremacists saidThat you were better than meThat your fair brow shall never knowThe sweat of slaveryThey lied, white womanhood tooIs enslaved, the difference is degreeThey brought me here in chainsThey brought you here willing slaves to manYou bore him sons …I bore him sons …No, not willinglyHe purchased youHe raped meYou were afraid to nurse your youngLess fallen breasts offend you master’s sightAnd he should flee to firmer love lettersAnd so …You passed them … your childrenOn to me …Flesh that was your fleshBlood that was your bloodDrank the sustenance of life, from meAnd as I gave suckI knew I nursed my own child’s enemyI could have lied …Told you your child was fed Until it was dead of hungerBut I could not find the heart To kill orphaned innocenceFor as it fed, it smiledAnd burped and gurgled with contentAnd as for color …Knew no differenceYes, in that first whileI kept your sons and daughters aliveBut when they grew strongIn blood and bone that was of my milkYou taught them to hate meYou gave then the words mammy … and niggerSo that strength that was of myselfTurned and spat upon meDespoiled my daughtersAnd killed my sons!!!

some things are just too hard to forgive…

February 11th 2013

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azspot:

Louis CK explains historical context to Jay Leno

Posted at 4:25pm and tagged with: black history month, slavery, race, white, jay leno, louis ck,.

June 26th 2012

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18-15n-77-30w:

afrovisionary:

kristan franklin

18° 15’ N, 77° 30’ W

read and be free

Posted at 3:25am and tagged with: slavery, reading,.

June 2nd 2012

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nok-ind:

Charles Henri Joseph Cordier

Cordier was born in Cambrai. In 1847, a meeting with Seïd Enkess, a former black slave who had become a model, determined the course of his career.

His first success was a bust in plaster of a Sudanese man “Saïd Abdullah of the Mayac, Kingdom of the Darfur” (Sudan). This was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, the same year that slavery was abolished in all French colonies. It is now housed at the The Walters Art Museum.

In 1851, Queen Victoria bought a bronze of it at the Great Exhibition of London. From 1851 to 1866, he served as the official sculptor of Paris’s National History Museum, creating a series of spectacularly lifelike busts for their new ethnographic gallery (now housed in the Musee de l’Homme, Paris).

Cordier took part in the great works commissioned by the Second French Empire (Paris Opera, Musée du Louvre, the Hôtel de Ville) or by private interests such as Baron de Rothchild. He died in Algeria.

Source: http://rbb85.wordpress.com

Posted at 7:13pm and tagged with: sculpture, history, slavery,.

May 14th 2012

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breyanarae:

elegantlytasteless:

Underwater sculpture, in Grenada, in honor of our African ancestors thrown overboard.

I couldnt not reblog this, it’s so powerful to me.

(Source: elegantly-tasteless)

Posted at 5:19pm and tagged with: history, sculpture, slavery,.

breyanarae:

elegantlytasteless:

Underwater sculpture, in Grenada, in honor of our African ancestors thrown overboard.

I couldnt not reblog this, it’s so powerful to me.

February 11th 2012

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afrikanwomen:

Josephine Bakhita (c. 1869 – 8 February 1947) was a Sudanese-born former slave who became a Roman Catholic Canossian nun in Italy. She was declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.

She was born about 1869 in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. She belonged to the prestigious Daju people. She was surrounded by a loving family; as she says in her autobiography: “I lived a very happy and carefree life, without knowing what suffering was”.

Sometime between the age of seven to nine, she was kidnapped by Arab slave traders, who already had kidnapped her elder sister two years earlier. She was cruelly forced to walk about 960 kilometers (600 mi) to El Obeid on her bare feet . It is said that the trauma of her abduction caused her to forget her own name; she took one given to her by the slavers, bakhita. She was also forcibly converted to Islam […] Read more

On 7 December 1893 she entered the novitiate of the Canossian Sisters and on 8 December 1896 she took her vows, welcomed by the future Pope Pius X. In 1902 she was assigned to the Canossian convent at Schio, in the northern Italian province of Vicenza, where she spent the rest of her life. A strong missionary drive animated her throughout her entire life - “her mind was always on God, and her heart in Africa”.

Her last years were marked by pain and sickness. She used a wheelchair, but she retained her cheerfulness.

Bakhita died on 8 February 1947. For three days her body lay on display while thousands of people arrived to pay their respects.

A young student once asked Bakhita: “What would you do, if you were to meet your captors?” Without hesitation she responded: “If I were to meet those who kidnapped me, and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands. For, if these things had not happened, I would not have been a Christian and a religious today”.

On 1 December 1978, Pope John Paul II declared Josephine Venerabilis, the first step towards canonization. On 17 May 1992, she was declared Blessed and given February 8 as her feast day. On 1 October 2000, she was canonized and became Saint Josephine Bakhita. She is venerated as a modern African saint, and as a statement against the brutal history of slavery. She has been adopted as the only patron saint of Sudan.

Full biography

I guess I don’t have what it takes to be a saint…

Posted at 8:20pm and tagged with: catholicism, saints, slavery, Sudan,.

afrikanwomen:

Josephine Bakhita (c. 1869 – 8 February 1947) was a Sudanese-born former slave who became a Roman Catholic Canossian nun in Italy. She was declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
She was born about 1869 in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. She belonged to the prestigious Daju people. She was surrounded by a loving family; as she says in her autobiography: “I lived a very happy and carefree life, without knowing what suffering was”.
Sometime between the age of seven to nine, she was kidnapped by Arab slave traders, who already had kidnapped her elder sister two years earlier. She was cruelly forced to walk about 960 kilometers (600 mi) to El Obeid on her bare feet . It is said that the trauma of her abduction caused her to forget her own name; she took one given to her by the slavers, bakhita. She was also forcibly converted to Islam […] Read more
On 7 December 1893 she entered the novitiate of the Canossian Sisters and on 8 December 1896 she took her vows, welcomed by the future Pope Pius X. In 1902 she was assigned to the Canossian convent at Schio, in the northern Italian province of Vicenza, where she spent the rest of her life. A strong missionary drive animated her throughout her entire life - “her mind was always on God, and her heart in Africa”.
Her last years were marked by pain and sickness. She used a wheelchair, but she retained her cheerfulness.
Bakhita died on 8 February 1947. For three days her body lay on display while thousands of people arrived to pay their respects.
A young student once asked Bakhita: “What would you do, if you were to meet your captors?” Without hesitation she responded: “If I were to meet those who kidnapped me, and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands. For, if these things had not happened, I would not have been a Christian and a religious today”.
On 1 December 1978, Pope John Paul II declared Josephine Venerabilis, the first step towards canonization. On 17 May 1992, she was declared Blessed and given February 8 as her feast day. On 1 October 2000, she was canonized and became Saint Josephine Bakhita. She is venerated as a modern African saint, and as a statement against the brutal history of slavery. She has been adopted as the only patron saint of Sudan.
Full biography

I guess I don’t have what it takes to be a saint…

January 12th 2012

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How to become a slave by Boonaa Mohammed

When I listen to this, I don’t understand how Christians could have issues with Muslims.

Posted at 10:26am and tagged with: capitalism, spoken word, slavery,.

November 18th 2011

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Did We Sell Each Other Into Slavery?

The single most effective White propaganda assertion that continues to make it very difficult for us to reconstruct the African social systems of mutual trust broken down by U.S. Slavery is the statement, unqualified, that, “We sold each other into slavery.” Most of us have accepted this statement as true at its face value. It implies that parents sold their children into slavery to Whites, husbands sold their wives, even brothers and sisters selling each other to the Whites. It continues to perpetuate a particularly sinister effluvium of Black character. But deep down in the Black gut, somewhere beneath all the barbecue ribs, gin and whitewashed religions, we know that we are not like this.

This singular short tart claim, that “We sold each other into slavery”, has maintained in a state of continual flux our historical basis for Black-on-Black self love and mutual cooperation at the level of Class. Even if it is true (without further clarification) that we sold each other into slavery, this should not absolve Whites of their responsibility in our subjugation. We will deal with Africa if need be…

The first act against Africa by Whites was an unilateral act of war, announced or unannounced. There were no African Kings or Queens in any of the European countries nor in the U.S. when ships set sail for Africa to capture slaves for profit. Whites had already decided to raid for slaves. They didn’t need our agreement on that. Hence, there was no mutuality in the original act. The African so-called slave “trade” was a demand-driven market out of Europe and America, not a supply-driven market out of Africa. We did not seek to sell captives to the Whites as an original act. Hollywood s favorite is showing Blacks capturing Blacks into slavery, as if this was the only way capture occurred. There are a number of ways in which capture occurred. Let s dig a little deeper into this issue.

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Posted at 1:06am and tagged with: slavery, africa, europ, demands,.

Did We Sell Each Other Into Slavery?

The single most effective White propaganda assertion that continues to make it very difficult for us to reconstruct the African social systems of mutual trust broken down by U.S. Slavery is the statement, unqualified, that, “We sold each other into slavery.” Most of us have accepted this statement as true at its face value. It implies that parents sold their children into slavery to Whites, husbands sold their wives, even brothers and sisters selling each other to the Whites. It continues to perpetuate a particularly sinister effluvium of Black character. But deep down in the Black gut, somewhere beneath all the barbecue ribs, gin and whitewashed religions, we know that we are not like this.
This singular short tart claim, that “We sold each other into slavery”, has maintained in a state of continual flux our historical basis for Black-on-Black self love and mutual cooperation at the level of Class. Even if it is true (without further clarification) that we sold each other into slavery, this should not absolve Whites of their responsibility in our subjugation. We will deal with Africa if need be…
The first act against Africa by Whites was an unilateral act of war, announced or unannounced. There were no African Kings or Queens in any of the European countries nor in the U.S. when ships set sail for Africa to capture slaves for profit. Whites had already decided to raid for slaves. They didn’t need our agreement on that. Hence, there was no mutuality in the original act. The African so-called slave “trade” was a demand-driven market out of Europe and America, not a supply-driven market out of Africa. We did not seek to sell captives to the Whites as an original act. Hollywood s favorite is showing Blacks capturing Blacks into slavery, as if this was the only way capture occurred. There are a number of ways in which capture occurred. Let s dig a little deeper into this issue.
READ MORE →

November 16th 2011

Dynamic Africa: Some of the effects of slavery in Africa.

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fyeahafrica:

ECONOMY

Most scholars find that the trade in slaves had a detrimental effect on long-term economic growth and development.

It ultimately undermined local economies and political stability as villages’ vital labor forces were shipped overseas as slave raids and civil wars became…

Posted at 3:37am and tagged with: slavery, africa,.