Dr. Samori Swygert: When they tell you ” Go back to your country”
The Rape and Pillage of Africa by European Nations
by Dr. Samori Swygert
The European track record speaks for itself historically. Europeans came to South Africa and killed off the Zulus with high powered weapons and their descendants currently enjoy the riches of stolen property. The Belgiums are responsible for going into the Congo and killing over 10 million Africans, stripping them of their rubber, diamonds, gold, and oil under the auspices of King Leopold II. The Germans are responsible for invading multiple countries in Southwest and Southeast Africa.
The Italians are responsible for trying to invade and colonize Northeast Africa and failed miserably at trying to conquer Ethiopia in the Battle of Adwa.
Europeans from England under the auspices of Queen Victoria invaded and usurped power from India by proxy of the British East Indian Company. The English also sought to rob China of their trade power by undermining China’s economy by manipulating the Opium supply and starting the Opium wars.
The Berlin Conference of 1884 was a conference in which multiple European nations devised strategies and plans on how to exert imperialistic power, control, an colonize the Congo and many other countries in Africa.
The French were responsible for invading and colonizing Mali, Africa and controlling the Sudan. During the late 19th century and into the first quarter of the 20th century Britain tried to defeat Somalia 4 times and enlisted the support of Italy to overcome Somalia, and portions of Somalia’s coastal region. It was the French that invaded and penetrated Guinea, Africa in the late 1800’s and usurped control.
The British were responsible for infiltrating and colonizing Sierra Leone from the early 1800’s to the mid 1900’s. It was Britain, Sweden, Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany, and the Norwegians that infiltrated Ghana for centuries under an unassuming engagement of “Gold Trading”. However, Britain ultimately gained control until the mid 1900s when Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana became the First African Prime Minister of the country and called for Ghana to have a self governing power.
Tanzania was scouted by a Portugal explorer that we know as Vasco Da Gama in the late 1400s. Portugal than controlled Tanzania up into the late 1600s. The pillage of the African continent can go on for months in a sophisticated and intricate lecture series, or symposium. Let’s move on.
The aforementioned was pertinent because many of the descendants of the European countries that colonized many countries in Africa, traveled and immigrated to America, and are telling people of color to go back to where we came from, yet it’s their predecessors that have traveled the globe and pillaged country after country for their resources and claims.
The Caribbean Colonization Cartel
The Caribbean is chock full of islands with indigenous natives that were victims of European imperialism and colonization from Haiti (French), Jamaica (Britain), Barbados (Spain, Portugal, Britain), Guyana (Dutch, and British rule), Trinidad (Spanish, and French), Tobago (Britain, France, and Dutch). Once again the litany of colonization, imperialism, and rule from Europe over the globe is ever present.
America
The United States speaks for itself. We are familiar with the invasion, influx, immigration, infiltration, and usurping of land, and resources by European explorers and invaders. We are pretty familiar with the Indian Removal Act, authorized by Andrew Jackson that forced “Indian” tribes off their land at gunpoint by U.S. military, resulting in the Trail of Tears, and many other unspoken stories of natives.
So when the present day descendants of European ancestors start telling people to go back to their country, tell them to kick rocks. These lands were inhabited before their curiosity, and thirst for power was even considered.
When Tea Partiers say they want to take the country back, and they yearn for the “good ole days”, tell them to kick rocks. Their “good ole days” was “hell” for everyone else.
No we aren’t interested in your “Good ole days”:
1) working your cotton, rice, tobacco, corn, and sugar cane fields
2) your Jim Crow policies
3) your slave codes
4) your sharecropping
5) your Sundown Towns
6) your convict leasing
7) your system of Peonage
8) your 2nd Class Citizenship
The 3 M’s of European Imperialism
The 3 M’s of European Imperialism that has yielded vast riches, fortune and generational wealth are :
Missionary, Mercenary, Mercantilism. They sent their missionaries as a façade of peace, goodwill, and salvation. Once the missionaries established contact and established an agreeable relationship, they sent in their Mercenaries to kill and pillage the prior occupying inhabitants. Lastly, they establish Mercantilism to fortify trade industries, exploit and extract minerals, land, spices, metals, rubber, oil, diamonds, timber, and more. The extracted wealth was then transferred generation to generation. Over time, the last names for some have been switched and sanitized for the convenience of historical innocence.
So if these individuals can’t peacefully exist on this globe and share the resources harmoniously among all inhabitants on Earth, and stop hoarding the planet’s gifts, I predict there will be a global conflict of unimaginable proportion, because we are now at a boiling point between the “haves” and “have nots”.
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| a family deep in South American jungle |
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| Black Indian woman, Yellow Corn, in regalia |
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White Fawn in an elk-tooth dress. Kiowa. ca. 1898.
Photo by Irwin. Chikasha, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) |
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| Yali People of West Papau |
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| 2 women from New Zealand |
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| Maori elder |
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| Maori man wearing a hat |
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| Morkin boys in the mountains |
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| Moroccan magicans in Tangiers in late 1800's by Tancrède R. Dumas |
