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Colonial Crimes
By: guest5 Date: October 24, 2020, 5:09 pm
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The colonialists are the ones that actually belong in a zoo.
This documentary should have been titled: "This is What Happens
When You Put the Wrong People in Zoos"....
Colonial crimes | DW Documentary
[quote]For more than a century, people were taken from their
homelands and exhibited in human zoos. They were displayed
alongside animals. This little known and deeply disturbing part
of colonial history played an important part in the development
of modern racism.
Between 1810 and 1940, nearly 35 thousand people were exhibited
in world fairs, colonial exhibitions, zoos, freak shows,
circuses and reconstructed ethnic villages in Europe, America
and Japan. Some 1.5 billion visitors attended these events.
Using previously unpublished archive material this documentary
traces how racism was constructed and disseminated in these
so-called ‘human zoos’. Children, women and men were displayed
like exotic animals, and ordered in a hierarchy of "races." They
were cast as ‘Other’ in a manner that served to justify
colonialism, and described as ‘savage’. It is a little known and
deeply disturbing part of colonial history. Only a handful of
the thousands of men and women recruited from the four corners
of the Earth ever managed to tell their experiences. This
documentary tells the story of six of them: Tambo, an Aboriginal
from Australia; Kalina from French Guiana; Ota Benga, a Pygmy
from Congo; and Marius Kaloïe, a Kanak from New Caledonia.
This documentary interviews historians and other experts to
trace the connection between human zoos and racism.
This piece of human history becomes tangible through the
biographies of six victims: Petite Capeline, an aboriginal of
Tierra del Fuego; Tambo, an Australian aborigine; Moliko Kalina
from French Guiana; Ota Benga, a pygmy from Congo; Jean Thiam, a
Wolof from Senegal; and Marius Kaloie from New Caledonia. Their
lives are portrayed in the historical context of the rise of the
great colonial powers thanks to the work of historians and the
help of their descendants. Analysis and commentary by
knowledgeable experts also explore the origins of racism at the
transition from supposedly scientific racism to everyday racism.
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The Opium Wars - Part 1: Foreign Mud
By: guest5 Date: January 30, 2021, 2:19 am
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The Opium Wars - Part 1: Foreign Mud
[quote]Part 1 of my new series on the infamous Opium Wars, when
Britain and later other European empires and the United States
fought a series of wars in China to gain control of that
nation's trade and wealth. In this episode we examine how
opium was smuggled into China, and how the First Opium War
erupted with terrible consequences for China.[/quote]
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The Original Karen (?)
By: guest5 Date: February 8, 2021, 7:19 pm
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The Original Karen - Colonial Nostalgia and Nairobi’s Out of
Africa Industry
[quote]After Kenya declared independence from British rule in
1963, there came a flood of renamings. Schools, suburbs, and
roads were rechristened in ways that spoke to a new idea of what
it meant to be authentically Kenyan. In Nairobi, “Queens Way”
became “Mama Ngina Street,” and roads named after the first four
colonial commissioners were redesignated for African leaders:
Dedan Kimathi, Muindi Mbingu, Daudi Dabasso Wabera, and Mbiyu
Koinange, respectively.
One appellation that escaped the fate of the rest was “Karen” —
the name of a Nairobi suburb, presumably christened for the
Baroness Karen Blixen, the Danish writer also known as Isak
Dinesen. Karen Estate lies seventeen kilometers west of the city
centre and is one of a few Nairobi suburbs where tall jacarandas
loom large, straddling long driveways onto huge mansions with
plush gardens. It hosts diplomats, powerful business people, the
upper strata of Kenya’s political class, expatriates, and much
of Kenya’s privileged white, Asian, and Black populations.
Karen’s contemporary ethos was unintentionally revealed in a New
York Times Style story about the suburb’s upscale boutiques in
which every single shop-owner and fashion designer mentioned is
a white woman, including the Swedish proprietor of a shop called
“Bush Princess.” Karen, we learn, is “home to some of the city’s
most intriguing and exclusive places to shop.” The two African
women pictured, only one of them named, are both floor staff.
The colonial undertones are even less veiled in a 1985 story in
The Washington Post that devoted copious print inches to
explaining the pains white homeowners in the “horsey suburb”
took to protect their houses and “well-trimmed hedges” from
Kenyan robbers. In Karen today, you can breakfast with the
endangered Rothschild giraffes at Giraffe Manor, or adopt an
elephant at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. And, of course,
you can visit the Karen Blixen Museum, in the house where the
baroness once lived.
Karen Blixen, a Danish aristocrat, moved to Kenya at the height
of Empire, in 1913, with her new husband, 15,000 Danish crowns,
and the intention to start a coffee farm. It was only later,
after she returned to Denmark in 1931, that she gradually found
fame as a writer. Her 1937 memoir, Out of Africa, offers a
record of her time in Kenya, detailing her relationships with
her lovers, her servants, and the two thousand “Natives” who
lived on her farm. As Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, the grand old
man of Kenyan letters, later wrote, “As if in compensation for
unfulfilled desires and longings, the baroness turned Kenya into
a vast erotic dreamland in which her several white lovers
appeared as young gods and her Kenyan servants as usable curs
and other animals.”[/quote]
[quote]Prior to the violence of colonialism, the 6,000 acres
Blixen called her own had belonged to the very “Natives” about
whom she rhapsodized in her memoir. Wanton theft is at the core
of colonial Kenya, which the British established as a settlers’
frontier, parceling off land to European adventurers. The first
batch of settlers received their land grants in 1902. It
included British aristocrats like Lords Delamere, Hindlip, and
Cranworth, who set the gold standard for a gilded countryside
hunter lifestyle. Later, the British government expanded lease
offerings and exempted settlers from the land tax, and in 1920,
the protectorate officially became a colony. But coffee and
cattle, the colonial industries of choice, were expensive to
produce, and Kenya earned a reputation as a “big man’s
frontier,” a place where only the extremely wealthy could afford
to settle. [/quote]
Read more:
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The Thiaroye Massacre: The colonial crime France doesn't want yo
u to know about
By: guest5 Date: March 6, 2021, 12:42 am
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The Thiaroye Massacre: The colonial crime France doesn't want
you to know about
[quote]It’s been nearly 80 years since hundreds of Black West
African soldiers who fought for France’s freedom against Nazi
Germany during WWII were killed in cold blood by their fellow
white officers in Senegal.
Here's the story of the #Thiaroye​ massacre hosted by
Greek-Egyptian presenter Ahmed Ghoneim[/quote]
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Meanwhile in the Third Reich:
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Why would any non-"white" ever fight for France considering that
nations history and it's crimes against the non-Western world?
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Sugar
By: guest5 Date: March 11, 2021, 11:33 pm
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How Giving Up Refined Sugar Changed My Brain
[quote]Consuming refined sugar can impact mood, decision-making,
and memory. Here’s how good it can be to give it up.[/quote]
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[quote]In August 1492, Christopher Columbus collected sugar cane
samples in La Gomera in the Canary Islands, and introduced it to
the New World.[30] The cuttings were planted and the first
sugar-cane harvest in Hispaniola took place in 1501. Many sugar
mills had been constructed in Cuba and Jamaica by the 1520s.[31]
The Portuguese took sugar cane to Brazil. By 1540, there were
800 cane-sugar mills in Santa Catarina Island and another 2,000
on the north coast of Brazil, Demarara, and Surinam. It took
until 1600 for Brazilian sugar production to exceed that of São
Tomé, which was the main center of sugar production in sixteenth
century.[23]
German chemists Andreas Sigismund Marggraf and Franz Karl Achard
(pictured) both laid the foundation of the modern sugar industry
Sugar was a luxury in Europe until the early 19th century, when
it became more widely available, due to the rise of beet sugar
in Prussia, and later in France under Napoleon.[32] Beet sugar
was a German invention, since, in 1747, Andreas Sigismund
Marggraf announced the discovery of sugar in beets and devised a
method using alcohol to extract it.[33] Marggraf's student,
Franz Karl Achard, devised an economical industrial method to
extract the sugar in its pure form in the late 18th
century.[34][35] Achard first produced beet sugar in 1783 in
Kaulsdorf, and in 1801, the world's first beet sugar production
facility was established in Cunern, Silesia (then part of
Prussia).[36] The works of Marggraf and Achard were the starting
point for the sugar industry in Europe,[37] and for the modern
sugar industry in general, since sugar was no longer a luxury
product and a product almost only produced in warmer
climates.[38]
Sugar became highly popular and by the 19th century, sugar came
to be considered[by whom?] a necessity. This evolution of taste
and demand for sugar as an essential food ingredient resulted in
major economic and social changes.[39] Demand drove, in part,
the colonization of tropical islands and areas where
labor-intensive sugarcane plantations and sugar manufacturing
could be successful. The demand for cheap labor to perform the
labor-intensive cultivation and processing increased the
European demand for enslaved Africans.[citation needed]
After slavery was abolished, the demand for workers in European
colonies in the Caribbean was filled by indentured laborers from
Indian subcontinent.[40][41][42] Millions of enslaved or
indentured laborers were brought to various European colonies in
the Americas, Africa and Asia (as a result of demand in Europe
for among other commodities, sugar), influencing the ethnic
mixture of numerous nations around the globe.[43][44][45]
Sugar also led to some industrialization of areas where sugar
cane was grown. For example, in the 1790s Lieutenant J.
Paterson, of the Bengal Presidency promoted to the British
parliament the idea that sugar cane could grow in British India,
where it had started, with many advantages and at less expense
than in the West Indies. As a result, sugar factories were
established in Bihar in eastern India.[46][47] During the
Napoleonic Wars, sugar-beet production increased in continental
Europe because of the difficulty of importing sugar when
shipping was subject to blockade. By 1880 the sugar beet was the
main source of sugar in Europe. It was also cultivated in
Lincolnshire and other parts of England, although the United
Kingdom continued to import the main part of its sugar from its
colonies.[48] [/quote]
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Re: Colonial crimes | DW Documentary
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 14, 2021, 10:30 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-scholar-time-france-confronts-075421431.html
[quote]Black scholar: It's time France confronts its colonial
past
“The French are highly reluctant to look at the dark dimensions
of their own history,” Pap Ndiaye told The Associated Press in
his museum, initially built to display colonial exploits but now
meant to showcase the role of immigration in shaping modern
France.
Ndiaye was named to head France’s National Museum of the History
of Immigration at a crucial time, as his country is under
pressure to reassess its colonial history and offer better
opportunities for its citizens of color, in the wake of Black
Lives Matter and other racial justice movements.
Following George Floyd’s death in the U.S. last year, thousands
took to the streets in Paris and across the country expressing
anger at racism and discrimination in French society,
particularly toward people from the country’s former colonies in
Africa.
...
“I know many French people would say that slavery is something
that happened in the United States when slavery did not really
happen in France or on a much smaller scale — which is not the
case. The main difference between France and the U.S. is that
slavery was overseas (in French colonies), very far from the
mainland.”
...
The Palais de la Porte Doree, which houses the museum in the
east of Paris, is in itself a strong testimony from France’s
colonial era.
Built for the Paris Colonial Exposition of 1931, it aimed to
present the French colonies in a favorable light.
Amid other propaganda, Ndiaye said, a monumental fresco in the
main hall of the museum was meant to convince the public “that
colonization is good for the colonized themselves, that they
enjoy being colonized by the French because of the civilizing
mission of the French Empire.”
The fresco still stands, as a reminder. Visitors will be able to
“measure the gap between the official discourse on colonization
at that time... and the reality,” he said. “A reality of
violence, a reality of oppression, a reality of domination.”
...
The permanent exhibition will start from 1685, when King Louis
XIV passed the Code Noir, or Black Code, legislation meant to
regulate the conditions of slavery in French colonies. It
legalized the brutal treatment of slaves and foresaw capital
punishment for offences including striking a “master.”
The display will focus on France’s colonial Empire that once
included a large part of northern and western Africa and other
territories in the Caribbean, the Middle East and south-east
Asia.[/quote]
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NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Re: Colonial crimes | DW Documentary
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 28, 2021, 2:16 am
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[quote]LISBON (Reuters) - Europe’s top human rights group said
on Wednesday that Portugal must do more to confront its colonial
past and role in the transatlantic slave trade in order to help
fight racism and discrimination in the country today.
The comments by the Council of Europe come as debate in Portugal
over how to remember its history heated up in recent months as
the country prepares to unveil its first memorial to victims of
slavery, in Lisbon.
The memorial - rows of sugar cane painted in black - was
designed by Angolan artist Kiluanji Kia Henda and funded by
Lisbon council. It will stand in the centre of the city.
From the 15th to the 19th century, Portuguese vessels carried
close to 6 million enslaved Africans across the Atlantic, more
than any other nation, but up to now Portugal has rarely
commented on its past actions and little is taught about its
role in slavery in schools.
Rather, Portugal’s colonial era, which saw countries including
Angola, Mozambique, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor as well as
parts of India subjected to Portuguese rule, is often perceived
as a source of pride.
“Further efforts are necessary for Portugal to come to terms
with past human rights violations to tackle racist biases
against people of African descent inherited from a colonial past
and historical slave trade,” the Council of Europe said in its
yearly report on Portugal, urging Lisbon to rethink how it
teaches its colonial history.
Complaints of racial discrimination increased 50% to 655 in 2020
but the figure is likely far below the actual rate of racist
incidents, said Secretary of State for Equality Rosa Monteiro.
“Our historical narrative is like a very serious wound that has
not been properly treated. And to heal it, we have to talk about
what happened,” Monteiro told Reuters, adding the government was
preparing a nationwide plan to combat racism.
Recent racially-motivated crimes include a KKK-style torchlight
rally, the fatal shooting of a Black actor by a white man on the
street and e-mailed threats to Black lawmakers.
Portugal is preparing its first ever official survey this year
asking people about their ethnic background. The border service
said in 2019 there were 103,346 Africans officially resident in
Portugal while the biggest migrant community is from Brazil,
numbering 151,304 people.
The Council of Europe also expressed concern at the rise in
racist rhetoric in political discourse, singling out the
far-right Chega party.
Chega’s sole lawmaker Andre Ventura has made public derogatory
remarks against ethnic minorities, including against prominent
anti-racism activist Mamadou Ba, who last month was the target
of a petition asking for his deportation for stating the death
of a colonial officer should not be commemorated.
“We are not trying to rewrite history - we are saying the
history we tell today is not enough,” Ba said at a protest on
Sunday. “We want a history that represents all
Portuguese.”[/quote]
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NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Re: Colonial crimes | DW Documentary
By: rp Date: April 4, 2021, 4:04 pm
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"Human Zoos"
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"Oddly it was Hitler who first banned them"
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Re: Colonial crimes | DW Documentary
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 10, 2021, 10:08 pm
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For reference:
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NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Re: Colonial crimes | DW Documentary
By: guest5 Date: April 11, 2021, 3:54 pm
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The Process of BUCK BREAKING!!! Past and Present
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Buck Breaking: The Use of Sexual Violence Against Enslaved Men
as Punishment for Wrongdoing
[quote]Trigger Warning: buck breaking may have been the worst
form of punishment[/quote]
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