AMANZA Walton-Desir in writing about this year’s observance of the victims of the Atlantic slave trade stated: “For Guyanese who are not of African descent, it is entirely acceptable, indeed, it is necessary to say: We acknowledge your history. We see your pain.”
As an Indian, I can confidently say that I will never have a problem with this.
As a non-African, in my columnist career, several times I have written that slavery was the cruellest derailment of the human mind in the history of civilisation. The Atlantic slave trade remains the most sadistic act committed within the species of Homo sapiens.
It is a tragedy that billions of African people and dozens of powerful African countries since the end of colonialism have not countered Western distortion of history that put the Holocaust as the worst crime in human history. To even whisper that the Holocaust was the worst episode of dehumanisation in history is to manifest a sick mind. No act of depravity can compare and will ever compare to the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Yet there are history books, philosophy books, textbooks on political theory and hundreds of movies that have saturated generations, both past and present, since World War II that the Holocaust was the worst crime in the history of the world. How do you explain that? The outline is a simple one.
Jewish money in the form of trillion-dollar companies; Jewish money in American and European universities; Jewish ownership of the American film industry; Jewish ownership of publishing houses and the media in the US and Europe have been successful in infusing into the minds of 20th century people that the Holocaust is the worst thing to ever happen to humans.
Given the state of the economy of African countries after Independence in the 1960s, it was impossible for African people around the world to confront Jewish global hegemony. That hegemony has expanded each year since 1945. We are seeing it right in front of our eyes, right now. Two examples are frightening.
The first is the murder of the insane and obnoxious racist in the US, Charlie Kirk. Despite being a White supremacist, Kirk spoke out against Israel’s mammoth control of American politics. There is a theory that because Kirk was influential, his anti-Israel stance was found to be too dangerous and he was killed by a Jewish conspiracy.
The second example is the resignation of President Trump’s adviser on counter-terrorism, Joe Kent. Mr. Kent’s reason is that Israel and the American Jewish lobby pressured President Trump to start a war with Iran.
It is still a Sisyphean task for African and Caribbean governments to confront the psychological hold Jewish wealth has on the Western mind about the Holocaust. Fortunately, Israel’s genocidal action in Gaza has become a turning point. The average American and European have accepted that the Jewish state of Israel is no different from what Nazi Germany was.
Despite the disadvantage of African and Caribbean governments in the world economy, the reparation agenda needs to take on more urgency. Caribbean and African governments have to relentlessly pursue the UK government to pay compensation for Britain’s birth and perpetuation of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Germany pays a yearly sum to Israel for the Holocaust. This is not money that goes directly to the survivors of the Holocaust. You can count on your fingers the amount of Holocaust survivors that live is Israel. The German yearly transfer goes to the Jewish people. Germany is saying that its government between 1934 and 1945, committed genocide on the Jewish people.
So, the German state has accepted a permanent fund for Jewish people in Israel. Interestingly, Germany admitted it committed genocide against the people of Namibia when Namibia was a German colony. But there was a one-off payment and Namibia receives not one cent of compensation from Germany since then. The obvious reason for permanent money going to Israel and not Namibia is race.
Despite being independent since the 1960s, African and Caribbean nations have turned out books on slavery in single digits while the production of books and movies on the Holocaust never stops. This, in itself, is a sad affair. Could anything be sadder? The worst act of brutality in human history is the Atlantic Slave trade, yet there is a brand new movie just out starring Hollywood heavy-hitters named “Nuremberg” and the books keep churning.
I end with something I am curious about. Are primary school children in the Caribbean and Africa taught about the Atlantic Slave Trade with heavy emphasis on slavery being the most despicable act in the history of civilisation?
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